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
- Painting with Interactive Pixels
[ Simple system based on mouseup and mousedown events. ]
MOUSE MOVEMENT
- Motion Phone by Scott Snibbe
[ Drawing with shapes to create abstract animations. ]
- Yellowtail by Golan Levin
[ Using how you drag a line to animate it. Sonification in the downloadable version.]
- Gesture Machines by Zach Lieberman
[ Experiments with gesture. ]
- Letterscapes by Peter Cho
[ Formal studies in form / shape, but there are interesting interactions as well. ]
KEYBOARD INPUT
- dakadaka
[ Using the whole keyboard. ]
- GAME SYSTEMS
[ Games using interesting interactive techiniques. ]
ROTATION
- Twin Spin
- Mozaik
- Roboto
MOUSE MOVEMENT
- Flip Out
- Spin to Win
DRAWING
- Loop
- Floats
MOUSE CLICK
- Crash
- Arcadia
BASED ON A NEW SUBJECT
USING NEW TECHNOLOGY