Comments on: We’ve Seen FPS/RTS/RPG… What Could Be Totally New Genre?

By: zealot

zealot — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:40:54 +0000

Yeah

Dota is it’s own genre now.

The Dota genre!

By: incolas

incolas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:19:41 +0000

DotA created a new genre. It’s a mod for WC3. We call it “Role-playing strategy” with my friends.

As usual, new genres get created by devs who care more about making great games than $$.

DotA now has spawned into several commercial games:
Demigod
Heroes of Newerth
League of Legends

and DotA’s main designer got hired by Valve a few months go. He’s leading a team there, apparently to make a standalone DotA type of game.

By: Steven Egan

Steven Egan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:15:37 +0000

Educational games are something I’m working on, and something of a dialogue system and dynamic gameplay system that could be seriously interesting. However, I’m not sure that either of those would give way to “new genres” so much as change the major focus. Perhaps finding novelties and new sub-genres is easier to do.

By: MathieuFillion

MathieuFillion — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:26:01 +0000

Éducational games will be big. Actual game designer with talent will make them and they will approach all game genres from a different angle; what can we teach with this genre while making it even more fun to play.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:41:40 +0000

I think you’re more likely to see a) hybrid genres where two genres are blended, b) modernized genres where new technologies are used to bring something up to do and do new things with it, c) user-centric games/social games/user-content games.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:56:05 +0000

Lumooja… testing…

By: Juuso

Juuso — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:54:23 +0000

@Sargon: good point. Wii has somewhat brought different “genres”… well, at least it has approached genres differently.

By the way… mouse and tetris reminded me that me + couple of guys were doing a mouse controlled tetris. It was sort of cool new experience to play it.

By: Lumooja

Lumooja — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:42:53 +0000

@Juuso: You probably remember the game “Not Pron”: http://www.deathball.net/notpron

By: Sargon

Sargon — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:28:08 +0000

Perhaps games are closely related to the input and output device. After the mouse was introduced to the PC, all sort of mouse related game appeared. But there is only much type of gameplay control you can get from a mouse.
A genre is a game that not only is new, but also it make sense to make a lot of variety of clones of it.
Tetris is an innovative game, but it’s not much of a genre, since the types of games you can base on it are limited.
FPS is a genre, you can make billion of types of game only based on the FPS control. And notice, the genre is based on the type of control, point to aim, and click to shoot. In first person.
I would think genres are closely related to the control scheme.

By: Juuso

Juuso — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:21:26 +0000

@Ovo – got akismet-trapped, now availablle (it’s pretty picky about posts with links I see)

@hermitC: that RPG point is sortof excellent. I think the answer is “boooring!!”. But… nevertheless I’d like to play those “neutral roles”. Don’t care about hacking & slashing… all I want is to sell goodies to those heroes. :) Dungeon Keeper was pretty cool (there’s now board game called Dungeon Lords with bit similar idea), you’ve played Evil Genius?

@Lumooja: hmm, I think… I’ve seen something like that. Can’t remember exactly what it was but have seen something like that.