Generic Structures, Generic Experiences: A Cognitive Experientialist Approach to Video Game Analysis

TY - JOUR

T1 - Generic Structures, Generic Experiences

T2 - A Cognitive Experientialist Approach to Video Game Analysis

AU - Gregersen, Andreas Lindegaard

PY - 2014/6

Y1 - 2014/6

N2 - The article discusses the issue of how to categorize video games - not the medium of video games, but individual video games. As a lead in to this discussion, the article discusses video game specificity and genericity and moves on to genre theory. On the basis of this discussion, a cognitive experientialist genre framework is sketched, which incorporates both general points from genre theory and theories more specific to the video game domain. The framework is illustrated through a brief example. One virtue of the framework is that it offers a way to bridge the gap between game ontology and player experience; a brief conclusion discusses how the breadth of this gap may depend upon player biographies and also outlines how further work may proceed.

AB - The article discusses the issue of how to categorize video games - not the medium of video games, but individual video games. As a lead in to this discussion, the article discusses video game specificity and genericity and moves on to genre theory. On the basis of this discussion, a cognitive experientialist genre framework is sketched, which incorporates both general points from genre theory and theories more specific to the video game domain. The framework is illustrated through a brief example. One virtue of the framework is that it offers a way to bridge the gap between game ontology and player experience; a brief conclusion discusses how the breadth of this gap may depend upon player biographies and also outlines how further work may proceed.

KW - Video games

KW - Genre

KW - Experience

KW - Cognition

KW - Embodiment

U2 - 10.1007/s13347-013-0125-8

DO - 10.1007/s13347-013-0125-8

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2210-5433

VL - 27

SP - 159

EP - 175

JO - Philosophy & Technology

JF - Philosophy & Technology

IS - 2

ER -