A Short and Simple Definition of What a Videogame Is

Videogames have been studied seriously only for a few years. So, we can wonder how we could use the recent academic works to approach new design methods. This article proposes a first step: a short and simple definition of what a videogame is, this definition being connected with existing academic works about game, play, interactivity, and narrative. The definition is: A videogame is a game which we play thanks to an audiovisual apparatus and which can be based on a story. The article also shows what the videogame heritage teaches us about what a videogame is.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  DiGRA Conference

• Publication date

  2005-01-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.26503/dl.v2005i1.177
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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