gametype

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English

Etymology

From game +‎ type.

Noun

gametype (plural gametypes)

  1. (often game theory) A type of game.
    • 2011, Woody Evans, Information Dynamics in Virtual Worlds: Gaming and Beyond, page 27:
      Many varieties of gametype exist and are in use in popular and obscure games – but as we explore the issue of virtual worlds, it's only really the gametypes that use some form of 'interactive fiction' that concern us.
    • 2012, Bettina Kuon, Two-Person Bargaining Experiments with Incomplete Information, page 65:
      For each parameter value of a we distinguish four different gametypes. The setup of the experiment was designed in such a way that each player played four times each of the four possible gametypes (H,H), (H,L), (L,H), and (L,L), []