Abstract:

Digital games have become the hot spot of popular entertainment consumption with its powerful interactivity Three types of interactivity co-exist in digital games: player-to-computer, player-to-game, and player-to-player, which build huge virtual game communities and interpersonal interaction platform From the perspective of communication, based on the player-to-computer interactivity, the players not only “use and flow in” the games, but also contribute their own intelligence to the game’s content The players’ multiple choice and active involvement mean that in the virtual world, the players build a large number of game communities with different types and functions and communicate with other players deeply and extensively The paper analyzes the game’s three types of interactivity, which can describe the interactive model of players and find the mechanism of information sharing and meaning generation

Key words: digital games, three types of interactivity, information sharing;meaning generation