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Games can be characterized by "what the player does."[4] This is often referred to as gameplay, a Game Search term that arose Game Search among computer Game Search game designers in the 1980s but as of 2007 is starting to see use in reference to
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games of other forms.[citation Game Search needed] Major key elements identified in this context are tools and
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chance.[clarify]
Games are Game Search often classified by the Game Search components required to play them (e.g. miniatures, a
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ball, cards, a board and pieces or a computer). In places where the use of leather is well established, the
Game Search ball has been a popular game piece throughout recorded Game Search history, resulting in a worldwide popularity of ball games such as rugby, basketball, football, cricket, tennis and volleyball. Other tools are more idiosyncratic to Game Search a certain region. Many countries in Europe, for
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instance, have unique standard decks of
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playing cards. Other games such as chess may be traced primarily through the development and evolution of its game pieces.
Many game tools are
Game Search tokens, meant to represent other things. A token may be a pawn on a board, play money,
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Game Search a point scored.
Games such as hide-and-seek or tag do not utilise Game Search any obvious tool. Rather its interactivity is defined by the environment. Games with the same or similar rules may have different gameplay if the environment is altered. For example, hide-and-seek in a school building differs from the same game in a park; an auto race can Game Search be radically different depending on the track or street course, even with the same cars.
Where as games are often characterized by their tools, they are often Game Search defined by their rules. While rules are Game Search subject to variations and changes, enough change in the Game Search rules usually results in
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Rules generally determine turn order, the rights and responsibilities of the players, and each player�s goals. Player rights may include when they may spend resources or move tokens. Common win conditions Game Search are being first to amass a certain quota of points or tokens (as in Settlers of Catan), having the greatest number of tokens at the end of the game (as in Monopoly), or some relationship of one�s game tokens to those of one�s opponent (as in chess's checkmate).
Skill, strategy, and chance
A game�s tools and rules will result in its requiring skill, strategy, chance or a combination Game Search thereof, and are Game Search classified accordingly.
Games of skill include games of physical skill, Game Search such as
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wrestling, tug of war, hopscotch, target shooting, and stake and games of mental skill such
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as checkers and chess. Game Search Games of strategy include checkers, chess, go, arimaa, and tic-tac-toe, Game Search and often
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require special equipment to play them. Games Game Search of chance Game Search include gambling games (blackjack, mah jong, roulette etc.), Game Search as well as snakes
Game Search and ladders and rock, paper, scissors; most require equipment such as cards or dice. Game Search However, most games Game Search contain two or all three of these elements. For Game Search example, American football and baseball involve both physical skill and strategy
Game Search while tiddlywinks, poker and Monopoly combine strategy and chance.
Single-player games
Most games require multiple
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players. However, Single-player games are unique in respect Game Search to the type of
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challenges a player faces. Unlike a game with
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multiple players competing with or against each other to reach the game's goal, a one-player game is a battle solely against an element of the Game Search environment (an artificial opponent), against one's own skills, against time or against chance. Playing with
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a Game Search yo-yo or playing tennis Game Search against a wall is not generally recognised
Game Search as playing a game due to the lack of any formidable opposition. This is not true, though, for
Game Search a single-player computer game where the computer provides opposition.
Sport
Main article: Sport
Association football is a popular sport worldwide.
Many sports require special equipment and Game Search dedicated playing fields, leading to the involvement
Game Search of a community much larger than the group of players. A city or town may set aside such resources for the organisation of sports leagues.
Popular sports may have spectators who are entertained just by watching games. A community will often align itself with a local sports team that supposedly represents it (even if the team or most of its players only recently moved in); they often align Game Search themselves Game Search against their opponents or have traditional rivalries. The concept of fandom began with sports fans.
Stanley Fish cited[citation needed] the balls and strikes
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Game Search epitomizes the Game Search category of things that exist Game Search only because people have agreed to treat them as real. Game Search No pitch is a ball
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or a strike until it has been labeled as such by an appropriate authority, the plate umpire, whose judgment on this matter cannot be challenged within the current game.
Certain Game Search competitive sports, such as racing
Game Search and gymnastics, are not games by definitions such as Crawford's (see
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above, despite the inclusion of many in the Olympic Game Search Games) because competitors do not interact with their opponents, Game Search they Game Search simply challenge each other in indirective ways.
Lawn games
Main article: Lawn game
Lawn games are outdoor games that can be played on
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Board games
Parcheesi is an American adaptation Game Search of a board game originating in India.
Main article: Board game
Board games use as a central tool a board on which the players' status, Game Search resources, and progress are tracked using physical tokens. Many also involve
Game Search dice and/or cards. Game Search Most games that simulate war are board games, and the board may be a map on which the players'
Game Search tokens move. Game Search Some games, such as chess and go, are entirely deterministic, relying only on the strategy element for their interest.
Game Search Children's games, on the other hand, tend to be very luck-based, with games such as Candy Land having virtually no decisions to be made. Trivia games have a great deal of randomness based on the questions a person Game Search gets. Game Search German-style board games are notable for often having Game Search rather less of a luck factor than many board games.
Card games
Main article: Card game
Card games use as a central tool a deck of Game Search cards. The cards may be a standard Anglo-American (52-card) deck of Game Search playing cards
Game Search (such as Go Fish or Crazy Eights), a regional deck using 32, 36 or 40 cards and different suit signs, a tarot deck, or a deck specific to the individual game (such as Set). Uno and Rook are examples of games that were originally played with a standard deck and have since been commercialized with customized decks. Some collectible card games such as Magic: The Gathering are played with a small selection of cards which have
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Video games
Main article: Video game
Video
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games. Computers can create virtual tools Game Search to be used in a game, such as cards or dice, or far more elaborate
Game Search worlds where mundane or fantastic things can be manipulated through gameplay.
A computer or video game uses one or more Game Search input devices, typically a button/joystick combination (on Game Search arcade games); a keyboard, mouse and/or trackball (computer games); or Game Search a controller or a motion sensitive tool. Game Search (console games). More esoteric Game Search devices such as paddle controllers have also been
Game Search used for input. In computer games, the evolution of user interfaces from simple keyboard to mouse, joystick Game Search or joypad has profoundly changed the nature of game development.[citation needed]
In more open-ended computer simulations, aka sandbox-style games, the player may be free to Game Search do Game Search whatever they like within the confines of the virtual universe. Sometimes, there is a lack of goals or opposition, which has stirred some debate on whether these should be considered Game Search "games" or "toys". (Crawford specifically mentions Will Wright�s SimCity as an example of a toy.[4])
Online games
Main article: Online game
From
Game Search the very earliest days of networked and timeshared computers, online games have been part of the culture. Early commercial systems such as Plato Game Search were at least as widely famous for their games
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as
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Game Search In 1958, Tennis for Two dominated Visitor's Day Game Search and drew attention to the oscilloscope at the Brookhaven National Laboratory; during the 1980s,
Game Search Xerox PARC was known mainly for Maze War, Game Search which was offered as a hands-on demo to visitors.
Modern online games are played using an Internet connection; some have Game Search dedicated client programs, while others require Game Search only a Web browser. Some simpler browser games appeal to demographic groups (notably women and the middle-aged) that otherwise play very few video games.[citation needed] Some games can be played in browser. The computer game is Game Search the most established of all sectors of Game Search the emergent new media landscape. The
Game Search media is transformed from the traditional way Game Search of circulating in just one way to an interactive Game Search way. This is the Game Search phenomenon Game Search that is broadening around the world of videogame. It is an obvious example of the ways in which Game Search online and offline space can be seen as �merged� rather than separate.[5]
Media audiences� characteristic Game Search has been changing in
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Game Search the social changes and development. They Game Search are becoming active and interact more than ever before. The Game Search players of the game in Game Search this Game Search phenomenon are just like the social formation in our society. They are both self-regulating, creating their own social norms and subject to regulation and Game Search constraint through the code of the game and sometimes through the policing of the game by those who run it. The
Game Search values that are policed vary from game to game. Many of Game Search the values encoded into game cultures reflect offline cultural values, but games also offer a chance to emphasis alternative or subjugated values in the name of
Game Search fantasy and play. The
Game Search players of Game Search the game at Game Search the new century Game Search are now apparently expressing their profound self through the game. Game Search When they can play with their anonymous status, they are found to be more confident to express and to step out from Game Search the position they have never been out from. It offers new experiences and pleasures based in the interactive and immersive possibilities of computer technologies.[citation needed]
Role-playing games
Main Game Search article: Role-playing game
Role-playing games, often abbreviated as RPGs, are a type Game Search of game in which
Game Search the participants (usually) assume the roles of characters acting Game Search in a fictional setting. The original role playing games�or at least
Game Search those explicitly marketed as such�are played with a handful of participants, usually face-to-face, and keep track of the Game Search developing fiction with pen and paper. Together, the
Game Search players may collaborate on a story involving those characters; create, develop, and "explore" the setting; or vicariously experience an adventure outside the bounds of everyday life. Pen-and-paper role-playing games include, for example, Dungeons & Dragons and GURPS. Modern independent RPGs, however, often blur the line between
Game Search the more traditional idea of the RPG and other traditional genres, or border on story-telling.
The term role-playing game has also been appropriated by the video game industry to describe a genre of video games. These may Game Search be single-player games where one player experiences a programmed environment
Game Search and story, or they may allow players to interact through the internet. The experience is usually quite different than traditional role-playing games. Single-player games
Game Search include Final Fantasy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, and The Elder Scrolls. Online multi-player games, often referred to as Massively Game Search Multiplayer Online role playing games, or MMORPGs, Game Search include RuneScape, EverQuest 2, Guild Wars, MapleStory and Anarchy Online. Currently, the most
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successful MMO has been World of Warcraft, which controls the vast majority of the market.
