How not to fall into the "Walking Simulator" trap (Jimquisition)

[sundin13]

Goodnightmoon said:

So Animal Crossing is nothing, it´s on a limbo right? No

There is no "my definition" here, a chair is a chair, a videogame is a videogame:

"A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor." 

Walking simulators are inside that definition.

I had a discussion once about how to define a video game and what I boiled it down to was something like this:

If it is a piece of interactive software that is created with the intent of being a game, it is a game.

That is a purposefully loose definition, but I feel that it is the only way to include everything that you think of when you use the phrase "video game" and exclude everything that falls outside of that.