Comments on: Bordering between genres http://blogs.geniocity.com/eby/2009/11/03/bordering-between-genres/ Tools and toys for people who think. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:28:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter http://blogs.geniocity.com/eby/2009/11/03/bordering-between-genres/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Peter Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:17:01 +0000 http://blogs.geniocity.com/eby/?p=32#comment-10 Charlie -- your post raises a number of questions. First, at the most elementary level, could you tell us what the various types of video games are and describe them in your own words? (I've got some sense of first person shooters, RPGs, and platform games -- I have a 16 year old son!), but I don't have a real firm grasp on the meanings of these terms or the extent to which they exhaust the field.) Second, the origins in any medium of such "genres" is a fascinating topic. Could you give us a sense of how some of these genres came about? Moreover, breaking down and combining genres seems a classic creative move. Why hasn't it happened more often in video games? Is it merely the youth of the medium, or are there aspects of the medium or the audience (or other things) that make video game genres particularly "hard"? Charlie — your post raises a number of questions. First, at the most elementary level, could you tell us what the various types of video games are and describe them in your own words? (I’ve got some sense of first person shooters, RPGs, and platform games — I have a 16 year old son!), but I don’t have a real firm grasp on the meanings of these terms or the extent to which they exhaust the field.)

Second, the origins in any medium of such “genres” is a fascinating topic. Could you give us a sense of how some of these genres came about? Moreover, breaking down and combining genres seems a classic creative move. Why hasn’t it happened more often in video games? Is it merely the youth of the medium, or are there aspects of the medium or the audience (or other things) that make video game genres particularly “hard”?

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