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Types of Game

Disciplines > Game Design > Types of Game

There are many types of game or indeed ways of dividing different games into various categories.

• Competitive Games: Winning and losing.
• Computer Games: with automated intelligence.
• Construction Games: Building things.
• Dexterity Games: Rapid manipulation.
• Games of Skill: From chess onwards.
• Games of Chance: The roll of the dice (and pseudo-skill).
• God Games: Managing a world.
• Hybrid Games: Combining various types of needed.
• Intellectual Games: Where thought is king.
• Material Games: with physical parts.
• Multiplayer Games: With autonomous agents.
• Physical Games: Where you at least get fit and may get hurt.
• Role-playing Games: Being someone else.
• Strategic Games: Overall approach.
• Simulation Games: Copying the world.
• Team Games: Playing with others.
• World Games: Total immersion.

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