These are games that involve exploration of, and interaction with, the environment as a main facet of gameplay. Story and puzzle solving are also highlighted and interaction is usually driven by point and click. Fighting plays a minor role.
What is an adventure?
100
Playing a game to interact with others.
What is social interaction?
200
These are tools that are made available for programming those same operating systems and services.
What is API or application programming interface?
200
These are games in which the background scrolls and the player jumps. Game-play generally includes running and jumping.
What is platform?
200
There's a “privacy” component that allows players to maintain some anonymity while playing.
What is physical seclusion?
300
This powered most of the adventure games that those companies released in the late 1980s and into the mid 1990s.
What is SCI by Sierra?
300
These are games that are short but addictive graphical games that usually require the player to solve a logical problem or positioning different pieces together.
What is puzzle?
300
You enter an imaginative, sometimes “limitless” universe where your character might either have superhuman powers or be in the habit of breaking the law without facing any ramifications.
What is escapism?
400
These engines, which include GameMaker, Torque Game Builder, and Unity3D, are built to be as friendly as possible, and are made to require as little coding as possible.
What is a Point-and-click engine?
400
These are games that require the player to take on a leadership role and oversee every detail of the provided scenario.
What is Strategy?
400
This is considered player-vs.-player or player-vs.-environment.
What is competition?
500
This means they use publicly available application interfaces, such as APIs like XNA, DirectX, OpenGL, the Windows and Linux APIs and SDL, to create their own engines.
What is Roll-your-own game engine?
500
These are games that are aimed at teaching, discussing or debating real-world concepts via gameplay.
What is simulation?
500
This will focus specifically on corporate or government skills.