1. Video Game Genres

2. Massively Multiplayer Online Game
MMO or MMOG
Massively Multiplayer Online Game

3. MMO World of Warcraft Eve Online ARK: Survival Evolved MMORPG
Become the epic hero of your faction, along with millions of other people.
MMORPG
Goal, take over the universe!
Problem? Thousands of other players are trying to as well.
Featured in the NYC Museum of Modern Art
MMO action-adventure survival
Think MMO version of Minecraft survival meets Jurassic Park

4. Let’s make the Real World digital
Simulators
Let’s make the Real World digital

5. Life Simulators – Top Down
Sims
Creatures 3/Docking Station
Game Dev Tycoon
(started as an architecture simulator) Build a house and help a person live
Caring for generations of creatures on a space station
Start out in your garage. Build a major game development company.
(Cool trick for pirates)

6. Activity Simulators – First Person
Flight Simulator
Farm Simulator 17
Goat Simulator
Learn to fly!
Yes, there’s 17 of them…
Work hard on a farm and don’t get paid!
Be a goat… and that’s about it.
And that’s why it’s fun.

7. Other Simulators Democracy 3 Galaxy Angel Europa Universalis
Civilization/War/Trade/Government Simulator
Dating Simulator
War/Trade/Civilization/Politics

8. Crossover Simulators Madden 25 Oxygen Not Included
Viscera Cleanup Detail
Sports Simulator
Physics/life Simulator?
Keep your colony alive. The catch? You’re buried in the middle of a giant asteroid and… you’re running out of oxygen fast.
Horror Simulator
Be the space station janitor tasked with cleaning up after a horrible experiment escapes.

9. Sandbox free-roaming open-world buildable Few or no objectives
Few restrictions on where player can go
buildable
Players can change aspects of the environment of the game

10. All about the problem solving
Puzzle
All about the problem solving

11. Puzzle
Tetris
Portal 1 & 2
Candy Crush

12. Adventure
Puzzles with a story

13. Adventure Stories Untold The Legend of Zelda Discworld Noir
Meta-gaming, playing a game about playing a game. Start out playing text adventure, but soon realize that the game is happening in real life.
“I’ve had some bad days since I started work as a private investigator. But I’ve never woken up dead before.”

14. planning and directing competitive puzzles think chess
Strategy
planning and directing
competitive puzzles
think chess

15. Strategy Civilization VI StarCraft II RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
Civilization Strategy/simulation Turn-based
Amusement Park Management
Military Science Fiction Real-time Strategy

16. Fast paced and reflex based
Action
Fast paced and reflex based

17. Action Space Invaders Mario Bros Call of Duty
First game in the “shoot 'em up” genre
FPS – First Person Shooter
Platformer

18. Follow characters through complex story
RPG - Role Playing Game
Follow characters through complex story

19. RPGs Final Fantasy Skyrim The Dreamhold Top down turn based
First Person Real-time
Purely Text Based

20. RPG – Rogue-like role-playing games characterized by:
dungeon crawl through procedurally generated game levels
turn-based gameplay
tile-based graphics
permanent death of the player-character

21. Crossover highlights Spore Fallout 4 Utopia
3D Life simulator Strategy real-time RPG
3D RPG Adventure Action FPS
Text Based RPG Strategy Adventure
MMO – Forget World of Warcraft… this is the world’s longest running MMO

22. Crossover highlights Dark Souls Terraria Overwatch
3D Action Adventure RPG Rogue-like 2D
Sandbox Survival Adventure
3D PVP Action FPS Strategy Real-time