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What is a game and what is its definition?
Plato's game definition game is a conscious simulation activity produced by the jumping demand of life and ability of all children (animals and humans). Aristotle's game definition game is rest and entertainment after work, and it is a kind of behavioral activity with any purpose. Ralph Coster (chief creative officer of Sony Online Entertainment Company) defines games as: games are activities to learn certain skills in happiness. Hu's game definition game is a kind of voluntary participation and conscious self-deception between belief and unbelief, which reflects that real life has entered a short but completely dominated activity or activity field within a certain time and space boundary. The main purpose of the definition of Ci Hai is to get pleasure directly, and the subject must participate in interactive activities. This definition explains two basic characteristics of the game: 1, and its main purpose is to get pleasure directly (including physical and psychological pleasure). 2. The subject participates in the interaction. The subject's participation in interaction is the change of the subject's action, language and expression, which is directly related to the way and degree of stimulating pleasure! Game classification A. Classification according to the content and purpose of electronic games: RPG= role-playing games ∴: Role-playing games are games in which players play one or more roles and have a complete story. Players may be confused about adventure games. Actually, the difference is simple. RPG games emphasize plot development and personal experience. Generally speaking, RPG can be divided into Japanese games and American games. The main difference lies in cultural background and fighting style. Japanese RPGs mostly use turn-based or semi-real-time combat, such as Final Fantasy series, and most domestic RPGs in China can also be classified as Japanese RPGs, such as the familiar Fairy Sword and the legendary swordsman. American RPG such as Diablo series. In more detail, RPG can be divided into action role-playing games (A.RPG, the fighting mode is instant action, typically dark) and strategic role-playing games (S.RPG, the fighting mode is like chess, which is what we often call war chess games, such as Xuanyuan Voldemort). ACT= action game:: Action game players control the game characters to destroy enemies with various weapons to spend the game, without pursuing story lines, such as the familiar Super Mali, the lovely Kabi of the stars, the gorgeous prince of Persia and so on. Most of the action games on the computer were born out of the early arcade game and action games such as Contra and Three Kingdoms. This is designed for ordinary players, aiming at pure entertainment and leisure. Generally, there are several simple puzzle solving elements, which are simple to operate, easy to use and exciting, and belong to the "popular" game. AVG = adventure game: adventure game: a game in which the player controls the character to take a virtual adventure. Different from RPG, the feature of AVG is that stories often appear in the form of completing a task or solving some puzzles, and the importance of puzzles is deliberately emphasized during the game. AVG can also be subdivided into two categories: action category and puzzle category. The action class AVG can contain some fighting or shooting elements, such as Resident Evil series, Tomb Raider series and Dinosaur Crisis. AVG, a puzzle-solving class, relies solely on solving puzzles to promote the development of the plot, with a large difficulty coefficient, represented by the super-classic mysterious island series. SLG= Strategy Game∶:: Strategy gamers use strategies to compete with computers or other players in order to win various forms of games, or unify the whole country, or explore alien colonies. There are two kinds of strategy games: turn-based strategy games and real-time strategy games. Turn-based strategy games, such as the "Three Kingdoms" series and the "sakura wars" series that everyone likes; Real-time strategic games such as Command and Conquest, Empire, Dune, etc. Later, some media put simulation business, namely SIM (simulation) games, such as Sims, Sims City, roller coaster tycoon, theme parks and modeling games (TCG, such as World Football Manager, Zero Polly Breeding Program, etc. ) under SLG. RTS = Real-time strategy game: Real-time strategy game originally belongs to a branch of strategy game SLG, but it has gradually developed into an independent type due to its rapid popularity around the world, and its popularity even exceeds SLG, which is a bit like the relationship between FIFA and the International Olympic Committee. Masterpieces include Warcraft series, Age of Empires series, StarCraft and so on. Later, the so-called "real-time tactical game" was derived from this, which emphasized the role of tactics by controlling a team to complete the task, represented by the Allied Death Squad. FGT= Fighting Game ←: Fighting game ← Dog's favorite game, in which the player manipulates various characters to fight against the computer or the character controlled by another player. According to painting skills, it can be further divided into 2D and 3D. 2D fighting games include famous street fighter series, introspection series and boxer series. 3D fighting games such as tiequan and gundam fighting. This kind of game is far from the plot. At most, it is a simple scene setting or background display. The scene, characters and manipulation are relatively simple, but the operation is difficult, mainly relying on the player's quick judgment and micro-operation. STG= SHOTING GAME∶:: The shooting game mentioned here is not a simulated shooting (gunfight) similar to VR Men, but a game in which players control various flying objects (mainly airplanes) to complete tasks or pass the customs. SSG = Science-Simulation Games Science fiction flight simulation games are unrealistic, with imaginary space as the content, such as free space and Star Wars series. RSG = Reality-simulation game Real flight simulation game is based on the real world, winning by authenticity, pursuing truth, and achieving the feeling of being there. Such as "Ace Air Combat" series and "Su -27". In addition, there are some other simulation games that can also be classified as STG, such as diving simulation of submarines and steel heroes simulation of tanks. FPS = First-person shooter: Strictly speaking, first-person shooter belongs to a branch of action games, but just like RTS, it has developed into an independent genre due to its rapid popularity in the world. Typical examples are Doomsday Series, Hammer of Thor Series, Illusion, Half-Life and CS, and so on. PZL = Puzzle Game:↓:Puzzle was originally a jigsaw puzzle to cultivate children's intelligence, and later it was extended to various interesting puzzle games. Generally speaking, it is suitable for leisure, and the most classic is Tetris, which everyone is familiar with. RCG= racing game:: Racing game [also called RAC] A game that simulates various racing sports on a computer, usually in a racing scene. It attaches great importance to image and sound technology, and often represents the cutting-edge technology of computer games. Thrilling and realistic, it is deeply loved by fans. Representative works include Need for Speed, Ridge Racing, Motorcycle Hero and so on. Another way of saying it is called "driving game". At present, the connotation of RCG is getting richer and richer, and some other events have appeared, such as rowing and horse racing. Spt = sportsgame: Sports games simulate all kinds of competitive sports games on the computer, with various patterns and high simulation, which are very popular, such as FIFA series, NBA live series and football live series. TCG= GB series was widely used before the game was born, but now people generally refer to this kind of game with EDU (education) to distinguish it from "online trading card games". As the name implies, it is a game simulated and cultivated by players, such as Star Volunteer, Dream Factory of Beautiful Girls, Zero Polly Breeding Plan and so on. CAG = CARDGAME: a card player manipulates the role to play the game through the card battle mode. The types of cards make the game changeable and bring infinite fun to players. Representative works include the famous Nobu Wild Hope series and the Game King series, including the card Online game "Martial Arts Online". Broadly speaking, Wang Guoxin can also fall into this category. Tab = TableGame: As the name implies, table games are games born out of previous table games to computers, such as all kinds of strong chess (that is, games that roll dice to determine the number of moving squares), such as monopoly series; Board games also belong to TAB, such as tractors, hearts, mahjong and so on. MSC = MusicGame: Music game is a game to cultivate players' musical sensitivity and enhance their musical perception. Accompanied by wonderful music, some players are required to dance, while others are required to do finger gymnastics, such as the well-known dance machine, which is a typical example. The popular online game "Strong Orchestra" also belongs to it. Lvg = lovegame: Love game players return to the era of first love, with touching aftertaste and simulating love games. Love is not a game, but there is a love game. At present, love games are mainly for male players, and some of them come from love women. Can you cultivate the pursuit of technology (and learn patience? Representative works include Japanese Heartbeat Memories Series, Miss Jun, Baby in China, Memories of Autumn, etc. Etc = etc. Games: Other games refer to games that cannot be classified into known categories. They are common in all kinds of TV games, such as music games, peripheral settings of some games (such as screensaver wallpaper set of heartbeat memory) and so on. It is rarely seen in computer games, and even if there is, it is mostly transplanted from TV games. Actually, if you can't decide, just leave it here. Wag = wapgame: mobile game. Games on mobile phones. At present, games can be played everywhere, even mobile phones should bring casual games. Internet users like mobile games best, with puzzles accounting for the highest proportion, followed by action, strategy, simulation and shooting. Give some examples of mobile games: Metal Roar, FF7 prequel, etc. MUD= Mud games mainly rely on words and graphics. 1978, Roy Trubshaw of the University of Essex, England, wrote the world's first MUD game-Mud1with DEC- 10, which is the first real-time multiplayer interactive online game and a pure text multiplayer world. (This may be the source of MUD's name, right? Other masterpieces: chivalry, meridian 59, king of kings. MMORPG = massively multiplayer online role-playing game: Everyone on the planet knows massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Give a few typical examples: Genesis on the Internet, Endless Mission, A3, Warcraft, Xuanyuan II and so on!