Creative game

In a creative game the emphasis is on fun, creativity and exploration rather than on winning. As so often, the border to educational games is fluent. The main difference to educational games is that the player can create new things which are not in a list of given items.

A creative game has no end configuration to be achieved after which the game stops. However, the player may face many puzzle-like problems during his/her play. Hence this topic is closely related to puzzles.

Creative Games describes a cultural field, a creative technology and a new emerging discipline at the crossroads of computer games, media art, architecture, urban planning, heritage, and advanced digital technologies.

There is move from many media professionals to cross-breed and merge the various creative skills and applications between those media sectors than ever before. Aspects of
* History and Philosophy of Computer Games
* Aesthetics of Computer Games
* Games as Museums and Exhibitions
* Computer Games as Musical Instruments and Sound Tools
* Interactive Text Spaces
* Embedded Games (Cross-media and mixed media)
* City-Scapes in Ludic Contextsare contained in the notion of Creative Games.

Since 2005 there are university programmes on a Masters level specialized in Creative Games.

Examples of creative games

* constructions sets
* drawing
* Play-Doh
* programming games
* Spirograph

ee also

* computer game
* educational game
* game
* list of puzzle-based computer and video games
* one-player game
* puzzle