DEVELOPING A GAME CATEGORIZATION FOR SITUATIONAL GAME PRODUCTION

In earlier work, a reference method for game production was developed. In this research, we start with extending this method with different routes that correspond to different types of games. Therefore, we propose a game categorization scheme, in order to add situationality to the reference method for game production. The categorization scheme consists of four descriptive dimensions and two supportive dimensions.

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