A Short and Simple Definition of What a Videogame Is

Authors

  • Nicolas Esposito

Keywords:

videogame, definition

Abstract

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.

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Published

2005-01-01

Bibtex

@Conference{digra177, title ="A Short and Simple Definition of What a Videogame Is", year = "2005", author = "Esposito, Nicolas", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/177}", booktitle = "Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views: Worlds in Play"}

Proceedings

2005: Proceedings of DiGRA 2005 Conference: Changing Views: Worlds in Play

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Papers

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