The Eternal Struggle of Video Game Genres

The Eternal Struggle of Video Game Genres

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Dark Souls
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Dark Souls (2011)
Duration: 20:01
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Let's scream into the void about genre theory in video games.

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Source Bibliography:
Adams, Ernest. “The Designer's Notebook: Sorting Out the Genre Muddle.” Gamasutra, 9 July 2009, https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4074/the_designers_notebook_sorting_.php?page=1.

Altman, Rick. “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre.” Cinema Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, 1984, p. 6.

Altman, Rick. “Film/Genre.” London: BFI Publishing. 1999.

Apperley, Thomas H. “Genre and Game Studies: Toward a Critical Approach to Video Game Genres.” Simulation & Gaming, vol. 37, no. 1, 2006, pp. 6–23.

Arsenalt, Dominic. “Video Game Genre, Evolution and Innovation” Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture, vol. 3, no. 2, 2009, p. 149-176

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Chandler, Daniel. “An Introduction to Genre Theory.” University of Washington, Aug 1997, https://faculty.washington.edu/farkas/HCDE510-Fall2012/Chandler_genre_theoryDFAnn.pdf

Clarke, Rachel Ivy, et al. “Why Video Game Genres Fail: A Classificatory Analysis.” Games and Culture, vol. 12, no. 5, June 2015, p. 445–465.

Lee, Jin Ha, et al. “Facet Analysis of Video Game Genres.” IConference 2014 Proceedings, 2014, pp. 125–139.

Neale, Steve. “Genre.” BFI Publishing., 1980.

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