40-common-game-verbs.md

40 common game verbs

From Games without Frontiers : Methods for Game Studies and Design by Aki Järvinen (2008, p.385-394).

1. Accelerating / decelerating
2. Aiming & shooting
3. Allocating
4. Arranging
5. Attacking/ defending
6. Bidding
7. Browsing
8. Building
9. Buying / selling
10. Catching
11. Choosing
12. Composing
13. Conquering
14. Contracting
15. Controlling
16. Conversing
17. Discarding
18. Enclosing
19. Expressing
20. Herding
21. Informatin-seeking
22. Jumping
23. Manoeuvring
24. Moving
25. Operating
26. Performing
27. Placing
28. Powering
29. Sequencing
30. Sprinting / slowing
31. Storytelling
32. Submitting
33. Substituting
34. Taking
35. Trading
36. Transforming
37. Trading
38. Upgrading / downgrading
39. Voting