Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres

By Tom Apperley. 2006

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The Gamification of Advertising: Analysis and Research Directions of In-Game Advertising, Advergames, and Advertising in Social Network Games (2013, background): “A diverse and broad spectrum of genres of digital games exists, such as action games, shooter games, strategy games, role-playing games, and sports games (Apperley 2006; ESA 2012), with game contents differing substantially.”
Why so serious? On the relation of serious games and learning (2010, background): “Hence genres are a rather fluid category (Apperley 2006) and each genre taxonomy is not only debatable, but also quickly outdated by actual game developments.”
Classifying Serious Games: The G/P/S Model (2011, background): “After a review of these “genre-based” classification systems, studies like Letourneux (2005) and Apperley (2006) highlighted their flaws, and called for a new approach to video game classification.”
Action video game training for cognitive enhancement (2015, background): “Little to nothing can be inferred by merely knowing that an individual plays ‘video games,’ as ‘video games’ can mean anything from simplistic matching of colored blocks on a mobile device up through navigating highly complex, laboriously designed virtual worlds on the newest consoles [15].”