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Most sports games attempt to model the athletic characteristics required by that sport, including speed, strength, acceleration, accuracy, and so on. [3] As with their respective sports, these games take place in a stadium or arena with clear boundaries. [3] Sports games often provide play-by-play and color commentary through the use of ...
A game is a structured type of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. [1] Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).
The first release in the "Complete" series, the book contains original cover artwork by Joe Simko and details all 678 Nintendo-licensed NES games. The book gives a short history of the Nintendo and Famicom systems and box art and a screenshot from each game with an area for collectors to mark for box, cartridge, and manual.
The Book of Games Volume 2 is a game compendium by gameXplore, examining 100 video games from November 2006 through November 2007 covering most of the current game platforms. It covers topics such as Hardcore Gaming, LAN Events, Indie Game Development, Videogames as Art, Music in Games, Professional Gamers, Future of Games, etc.
Dice; Playing card; Game board (or simply board) – the (usually quadrilateral) surface on which one plays a board game; the namesake of the board game, gameboards would seem to be a necessary and sufficient condition of the genre, though card games that do not use a standard deck of cards (as well as games which use neither cards nor a game board) are often colloquially included.
A game artist creates visual art for games. Game artists are often vital to role-playing games and collectible card games. [5]Many graphic elements of games are created by the designer when producing a prototype of the game, revised by the developer based on testing, and then further refined by the artist and combined with artwork as a game is prepared for publication or release.
This category is for bibliographies of games and sports. Pages in category "Bibliographies of games and sports" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Man, Play and Games (ISBN 0029052009) is the influential 1961 book by the French sociologist Roger Caillois (French: Les jeux et les hommes, 1958) on the sociology of play and games or, in Caillois' terms, sociology derived from play. Caillois interprets many social structures as elaborate forms of games and much behaviour as a form of play.