Digital Entertainment Game

A Digital Entertainment Game is an digital game (with video game players) that is a form of digital entertainment.

• AKA: Video Game.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be created by a Video Game Creation Task.
  • It can (typically) result in Video Gaming Events.
  • It can (often) involve Video Game Content.
  • It can (often) be composed of Video Game Sections (such as video game levels).
  • It can (often) be associated with a Video Game Genre, such as: a Racing Video Game, Action Video Game (such as a fighting video game), Team Sport Game, ...
  • It can (often) be represented by a Video Game Data Record.
  • It can range from being a Large-Screen Video Game to being a Small-Screen Video Game.
  • It can range from being a PC-based Video Game to being a Console-based Video Game (such as a PS4 game).
  • It can range from being a First-Person Video Game to being a Third-Person Video Game.
  • It can range from being a Real-Time Video Game to being a Turn-Taking Video Game.
  • It can range from being a Single-Player Video Game to being a Multi-Player Video Game.
  • It can range from being an Offline Video Game to being an Online Video Game.
  • It can range from being a Violent Video Game to being a Non-Violent Video Game.
  • It can range from being a Successful Video Game to being an Unsuccessful Video Game.
  • It can range from being a TV-based Video Game to being an Augmented Reality (AR)-based Video Game to being a Virtual Reality (VR)-based Video Game.
  • It can include a Promotional In-Game Event.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • an Arcade Game, such as: Pong, PacMan, Super Mario, ...
  • an Action Video Game, such as Doom Game, ...
  • a Music Video Game, such as Rock Star.
  • Gran Turismo Video Game.
  • DOTA 2.
  • Destiny 2.
  • Mafia Wars.
  • Fortnite.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Digital Educational Game.
  • a Television Series (e.g. on cable TV).
• See: Interactive Digital Entertainment, User Interface.

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References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_genres
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games

2018

• https://statista.com/topics/868/video-games/
  • QUOTE: A video game is an electronic game that can be played on a computing device, such as a personal computer, gaming console or mobile phone. Depending on the platform, video games can be subcategorized into computer games and console games. In recent years however, the emergence of social networks, smartphones and tablets introduced new categories such as mobile and social games. Video games have come a long way since the first games emerged in the 1970s. Today’s video games offer photorealistic graphics and simulate reality to a degree which is astonishing in many cases.

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/video_game Retrieved:2017-1-26.
  • A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images. Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial.

    The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms; examples of these are personal computers and video game consoles. These platforms range from large mainframe computers to small handheld computing devices. Specialized video games such as arcade games, in which the video game components are housed in a large, coin-operated chassis, while common in the 1980s in video arcades, have gradually declined in use due to the widespread availability of affordable home video game consoles (e.g., PlayStation 4 and Xbox One) and video games on desktop and laptop computers and smartphones.

    The input device used for games, the game controller, varies across platforms. Common controllers include gamepads, joysticks, mouses, keyboards, the touchscreens of mobile devices and buttons. Players typically view the game on a video screen or television and there are often game sounds from loudspeakers. Some games in the 2000s include haptic, vibration-creating effects, force feedback peripherals and virtual reality headsets. In the 2010s, the video game industry is of increasing commercial importance, with growth driven particularly by the emerging Asian markets and mobile games, which are played on smartphones. As of 2015, video games generated sales of USD 74 billion annually worldwide, and were the third-largest segment in the U.S. entertainment market, behind broadcast and cable TV.

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