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Computer
Games Design
Game Genre
Genre / Theme
Genre / Theme is used to put games into
 categories based on their gameplay.
Your task
In groups use your paper and pen to think
  of as many gaming genres as possible.

You have 5 minutes!
Types of Genre / Themes
             Role - Playing
Action
                                 First Person
                                 Shooter
 Adventure
                 Driving
                                        Simulator
Sports
              Fantasy
  Strategy
                                        Puzzle
                        Sci-fi
What’s the Genre?




         Sports
What’s the Genre?




         Simulator
What’s the Genre?




                 First Person   Sci-fi
Role - Playing
                 Shooter
What’s the Genre?




Some games may have more than one
             genre!
Your task!
Choose three games of your choice and tell
 me the following information:
•   Name of the Game,
•   Company that produced it,
•   Genre(s) that you would assign the game
•   Why would you assign that genre? What
    elements of the game make it obvious that
    it is part of that genre?

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Genre

Editor's Notes

  1. Compare to films if needed.
  2. Big Pieces of paper inbetween groups getting them to discuss and list or mindmap different types of genres.
  3. Types I have guessed.
  4. Guess what the genre is
  5. Guess what the genre is
  6. Guess what the genre is, see if the pupils guess there is more than one.
  7. Explain that sometimes they have more than one genre like films.
  8. Explain that this information can be produced in anyway needed.