This document provides information on gaming genres and age ratings. It identifies different genres within the gaming industry such as action, adventure, fighting, music, platformer, RPG, racing, shooter, sports, and strategy. It also discusses how the PEGI age rating system considers age suitability over difficulty and uses content descriptors like violence, fear, bad language, sex, drugs, discrimination, gambling, and online interactions to indicate why a game receives a particular rating.

1. gaming

2. lesson objectives

3. one
Identify different genres
within gaming industry

4. two
Understand how games
attract target audiences

5. three
Understand how different
groups are represented in
games

6. four
Know how games are
promoted

7. game genres

8. action
Player controls a character
who must navigate a level,
collecting objects, avoiding
obstacles, and battling
enemies.

10. adventure
Player is assigned a role in
an interactive story driven
by exploration and puzzle-
solving.

12. fighting
Player controls a character
and engages in close combat
with an opponent.

14. music
A game in which the gameplay
is almost entirely orientated
around the player’s interactions
with musical score or individual
songs.

16. platformer
Revolves around players
jumping from platform to
platform.

18. rpg
A role-playing game in which
player assumes a role and makes
his/her own decisions. Actions
taken within many games succeed
or fail according to a formal
system of rules.

20. racing
A driving game involving
completing courses in a given
time or against other
competitors.

22. shooter
Gameplay revolving around
shooting objects and game
characters.

24. sports
A game that simulates the
practice of sports.

26. strategy
Evolving from strategic
board game principles, the
players take turns to make
their manoeuvres.

28. age ratings

29. the pegi age rating
considers the age suitability,
not the difficulty level.

31. content descriptors

32. content descriptors are used
in conjunction with the age
rating icons to indicate the
main reasons why a game is
given a particular age rating.

33. violence
Game may contain some
violence. In games rated
7 any violence can be
non-realistic, whereas
games rated 16 or 18 can
have increasingly more
realistic-looking violence.

34. fear
This descriptor may
appear on 7-rated games
with pictures or sounds
that can be frightening to
young children or on 12-
rated games with horrific
sounds or horror effects.

35. bad language
Game contains bad
language, which may
include mild swearing or
offensive language in
games rated 12, or
blasphemy and sexual
expletives in games rated
16 or 18.

36. sex
Games depicting nudity
or references to sexual
behaviour. In games rate
12 this may include word
or activities with obvious
sexual innuendo.

37. drugs
Game may encourage the
use of tobacco or alcohol in
games rated 16 or depict
illegal drugs in 18-rated
titles.

38. discrimination
This descriptor can only
appear on games rated 18
containing ethnic,
religious, nationalistic or
other stereotypes that
could encourage hatred.

39. gambling
Used for games rated 12,
16 or 18 that may
encourage or teach
gambling for money
normally played in
casinos, gambling halls,
racetracks, etc.

40. online
Game allows online
gameplay with or
against other people.