GAME GENRES

• Wikipedia
  [ Extensive list of video game genres, complete with descriptions and example games. ]
• New Game Styles by Greg Costikyan
  [ Great powerpoint presentation on the importance of imagining new game styles. Provides some good strategies. ]

SOME EXPERIMENTAL GAMES

TAKE A LOOK AT The Experimental Gameplay Project. Four Grad students make a game a week based on a certain topic. All experimental. Check out their games.


A USER INTERFACE APPROACH

• NON-GAME SYSTEMS
  [ A few systems that using interesting interactive techniques. ]
  
  
  MOUSE UP AND MOUSE DOWN
  
  1. Painting with Interactive Pixels
     [ Simple system based on mouseup and mousedown events. ]
  
  
  MOUSE MOVEMENT
  
  2. Motion Phone by Scott Snibbe
     [ Drawing with shapes to create abstract animations. ]
  3. Yellowtail by Golan Levin
     [ Using how you drag a line to animate it. Sonification in the downloadable version.]
  4. Gesture Machines by Zach Lieberman
     [ Experiments with gesture. ]
  5. Letterscapes by Peter Cho
     [ Formal studies in form / shape, but there are interesting interactions as well. ]
  
  
  KEYBOARD INPUT
  
  6. dakadaka
     [ Using the whole keyboard. ]



• GAME SYSTEMS
  [ Games using interesting interactive techiniques. ]
  
  
  ROTATION
  
  1. Twin Spin
  2. Mozaik
  3. Roboto
  
  
  MOUSE MOVEMENT
  
  4. Flip Out
  5. Spin to Win
  
  
  DRAWING
  
  6. Loop
  7. Floats
  
  
  MOUSE CLICK
  
  8. Crash
  9. Arcadia

BASED ON A NEW SUBJECT

• Sissy Fight
  [ A game based on school girls fighting. ]

USING NEW TECHNOLOGY

• GPS::Tron
  [ Tron game remade using GPS technologies. ]
• Pac Manhattan
  [ Pacman using cellphones in the city. ]
• Other GPS Games (by Blast Theory)
  [ Tron game remade using GPS technologies. ]
• Red Light, Green Light
  [ Red Light, Green Light game redone using a hand held screen and sensor as an interface. ]