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  Game Genre: Battle Royale, in recent years ( https://www.trustedreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/12/19BR_BattlePass.jpg )   In this blog I will be discussing the most prominent game genre which has dominated the gaming industry these past few years, 2022 – 2017 to be exact. To be exact, I am referring to the battle royale genre, with games such as Fortnite and Pubg, and the evolution of the battle royale genre. These games blasted their way onto the gaming scene in 2017, immediately gaining popularity as free to play, online, multiplayer games. They were the games that brought this battle royale genre to the forefront of gaming and has kept it there ever since, ( https://gamesight.io/leaderboards/battle-royale-games ) . In these games, the idea is very simple, a group of players go to an island with no equipment, run around collecting equipment and then trying to kill other players to be the last player standing. That is the core feature of their battle...

  Game Rules Operational, Structural, Implicit In this blog I will discuss and explain the three rule types for games, using Star Wars Battlefront II, released in 2017 by DICE, Motive Studio and Criterion Software, to give examples of each rule type in action.   Operational Operational rules are often considered as ‘the rules of play’. Usually thought of as the only rules the player needs to be taught, or the only rules that are deliberately shown to the player, operational rules direct the players behaviour and usually dictate how the game is played. To give an example of an operational rule from Battlefront II, in any multiplayer game mode with a mix of hero characters and base class troopers, killing enemies gives you a certain amount of points so that you can upgrade and choose a hero character. Trooper Selection Screen https://gamegavel.com/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/uploads/2020/05/Jet-trooper-Class-Battlefront-2.jpg.webp As you can see from th...