PROBLEMS OF GENRE-BASED APPROACHES TO DIGITAL GAMES: THE CASE OF PLATFORM GAMES GENRE

Digital games are categorized in different genres such as action games, casual games, art-games etc. which makes it easy to direct the right target gamer auidence to the right digital games. but from the perspective of game studies, using these genre conventions is problematic. a genre categorization based on game form and narrative is needed for a critical analysis of games. this paper will elaborate on existing genre approaches in game studies, which are offered as critical alternatives to popular genre conventions. their validity will be analyzed with selected games from platform games genre.