Editing Video game (section)

===Genre===
{{Main|Video game genre}}
{{See also|Gameplay}}
[[File:Dustforce Trailer.webm|thumb|thumbtime=54|right|''[[Dustforce]]'' is representative of the [[platform game]] genre as its gameplay involves jumping between platforms.]]
A video game, like most other forms of media, may be categorized into [[genres]]. However, unlike film or television which use visual or narrative elements, video games are generally categorized into genres based on their gameplay interaction, since this is the primary means which one interacts with a video game.<ref name=Apperley>{{cite journal |access-date=19 April 2013 |title=Genre and game studies |journal=Simulation & Gaming |author=Apperley, Thomas H. |year=2006 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=6–23 |url=http://trac.assembla.com/CommanderAssembler/export/32/docs/Genre%20and%20game%20studies%20-%20tom-apperley.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003753/http://trac.assembla.com/CommanderAssembler/export/32/docs/Genre%20and%20game%20studies%20-%20tom-apperley.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 October 2013 |doi=10.1177/1046878105282278 |s2cid=17373114 |issn=1046-8781}}</ref><ref name="Gamasutra">{{cite web| title=Background: The Origins of Game Genres| url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4074/the_designers_notebook_sorting_.php| author=Adams, Ernest| date=9 July 2009| website=[[Game Developer (website)|Game Developer]]| access-date=7 May 2022| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217155232/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4074/the_designers_notebook_sorting_.php| archive-date=17 December 2014| df=dmy-all| author-link=Ernest W. Adams}}</ref><ref name="Explosion">{{cite book|last1=Wolf|first1=Mark J.P.|date=2008|title=The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to Playstation and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XiM0ntMybNwC&q=video+game+genres|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=259|isbn=978-0313338687|access-date=2014-12-03|archive-date=23 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423094107/https://books.google.com/books?id=XiM0ntMybNwC&q=video+game+genres|url-status=live}}</ref> The narrative setting does not impact gameplay; a [[shooter game]] is still a shooter game, regardless of whether it takes place in a fantasy world or in outer space.{{sfn|Adams|Rollings|2006|p=67}}{{sfn|Harteveld|2011|page=71}} An exception is the [[horror game]] genre, used for games that are based on narrative elements of [[horror fiction]], the [[supernatural]], and [[psychological horror]].{{sfn|Perron|2009|pp=26–45}}

Genre names are normally self-describing in terms of the type of gameplay, such as [[action game]], [[computer role playing game|role playing game]], or [[shoot 'em up]], though some genres have derivations from influential works that have defined that genre, such as [[roguelike]]s from ''[[Rogue (video game)|Rogue]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1up.com/features/essential-50-rogue|title=The Essential 50 Part 12 – Rogue|last=Parish|first=Jeremy|work=[[1UP.com]]|access-date=1 March 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228092550/http://www.1up.com/features/essential-50-rogue|archive-date=28 February 2013}}</ref> [[Grand Theft Auto clone]]s from ''[[Grand Theft Auto III]]'',{{sfn|Lecky-Thompson|2008|page=23}} and [[battle royale game]]s from the film ''[[Battle Royale (film)|Battle Royale]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zavarise |first1=Giada |title=How Battle Royale went from a manga to a Fortnite game mode |url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/12/06/how-battle-royale-went-from-a-manga-to-a-fortnite-game-mode/ |website=[[Rock, Paper, Shotgun]] |access-date=24 May 2020 |date=6 December 2018 |archive-date=26 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726154840/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/12/06/how-battle-royale-went-from-a-manga-to-a-fortnite-game-mode/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The names may shift over time as players, developers and the media come up with new terms; for example, [[first-person shooter]]s were originally called "Doom clones" based on [[Doom (1993 video game)|the 1993 game]].{{sfn|Arsenault|2009|pages=149–176}} A hierarchy of game genres exist, with top-level genres like "shooter game" and "action game" that broadly capture the game's main gameplay style, and several subgenres of specific implementation, such as within the shooter game [[first-person shooter]] and [[third-person shooter]]. Some cross-genre types also exist that fall until multiple top-level genres such as [[action-adventure game]].