Minigame
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A minigame (also spelled mini game and mini-game, sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short game often contained within another video game. A minigame contains different gameplay elements and is often smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained.
Some video games consist entirely of minigames which tie into an overall theme, such as Olympic Decathlon (1980). Minigames can also be used to represent a specific experience, such as hacking, lock picking, or scanning an area, that ties into a larger game.
Minigame compilations
Some games are made up of many minigames strung together into one video game, such as
Video Action, David Whittaker's Lazy Jones and the mobile game Phone Story. Some similar games specifically developed for multiplayer are considered party games, such as the Itadaki Street series by Square Enix and Nintendo's Mario Party
series. In party games, minigames usually involve performing an activity faster or collecting more of a specified item than other players to win.
Examples
The Squaresoft's original game design.[1]
The
Chocobo World minigame inside Final Fantasy VIII.[2]
See also
- Casual game
- Invade-a-Load
- Minigames of Final Fantasy
- Party game
References
- Dengeki(in Japanese). 2004.
- ^ FFVIII PocketStation Opens Up Chocobo World Archived 2012-03-21 at the Wayback Machine, IGN, July 15, 1999