Presentation at the Summit Meeting of the Planetary Collegium entitled “Reviewing the Future: Vision, Innovation, Emergence” in Montreal entitled “Game Physics in Video Games: Statistical Analysis and Interviews with Practitioners”.
When analyzing computer games, categorizations are very helpful. The following heuristic taxonomy of computer games summarizes important video game categories and their sub-categories and gives examples in each.
The research found that scientific and artistic perspectives should be considered when designing game physics, because the primarily entertainment driven design goals of game developers interfere with the needs of educators or scientists, projecting a form of “pseudo physics”.