Ludus Novus » crawford http://ludusnovus.net The Art of Interaction Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:05:48 +0000 en hourly 1 2006-2008 Gregory.Weir@gmail.com (Gregory Weir) Gregory.Weir@gmail.com (Gregory Weir) 1440 http://ludusnovus.net/images/ludusnovusblog.jpg Ludus Novus http://ludusnovus.net 144 144 The Art of Interaction ludology, games, game, design, rpgs, interactive, fiction, video, game, theory, interactive, art Gregory Weir Gregory Weir Gregory.Weir@gmail.com no no Ludus Novus 012: Genre Fiction http://ludusnovus.net/2008/09/06/ludus-novus-012-genre-fiction/ http://ludusnovus.net/2008/09/06/ludus-novus-012-genre-fiction/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:00:24 +0000 Gregory Weir http://ludusnovus.net/?p=34 In this podcast, I discuss digital games genres and how I think they’re silly. They’re arbitrary niches based on a few popular games, and using them to describe games limits the way we think about making and playing games. I discuss the evolution of our genre system, from Crawford in 1984 to the modern overstuffed action adventure, and explain how Madden ’08 and Rainbow Six are in the same genre.

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]]> http://ludusnovus.net/2008/09/06/ludus-novus-012-genre-fiction/feed/ 8 0:22:28 In this podcast, I discuss digital games genres and how I think they’re silly. They’re arbitrary niches based on a few popular games, and using them to describe games limits the way we think about making and playing games. I discuss th[...] In this podcast, I discuss digital games genres and how I think they’re silly. They’re arbitrary niches based on a few popular games, and using them to describe games limits the way we think about making and playing games. I discuss the evolution of our genre system, from Crawford in 1984 to the modern overstuffed action adventure, and explain how Madden ’08 and Rainbow Six are in the same genre. References: Halo: Combat Evolved Deus Ex Dungeon Keeper The Serious Sam series Smash T.V. Geometry Wars The Art of Computer Game Design, Chapter 3: “A Taxonomy of Computer Games“, by Chris Crawford Super Mario Bros. Ultima Underworld Rainbow Six The music for this episode is “Unforgiven” by spinmeister and featuring TheJoe & Kaer Trouz, and is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license. Podcasts Gregory Weir no no