Game genomics

Ben Cousins was right when he mused:

I would argue that almost every piece of writing, serious and non-serious, academic and anti- academic, on the subject of videogames, is simply the result of people 'strolling through the zoo, noting this and that, and marveling at the curiosities'.

In keeping with the biological/zoological theme, we need to go further than merely classifying the various species of games into taxonomies. Too much attention is paid to the phenotype of a game rather than its genotype. It makes more sense to explore the genome of a game. Atoms are ubiquitous things and too low-level to really help define the essence of a game. The study of game DNA -- game genomics -- is a better analogy.