Thursday, 1 February 2018

Video game terms

(1) Genre: A style or category of art, music or literature.

(2) Platform: A computer system made specifically made for playing video games.

(3) Action: Armed conflict

(4) Sport: An activity involving physical exertion and skill against another set of persons.

(5) Text adventure: a video game that uses text characters instead of bitmap or vector graphics.

(6) Simulation: Imitation of a situation or process.

(7) Combat: Fighting between armed forces.

(8) Strategy: A plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.

(9) MMPORG: An online role playing game in which a very large number of people participate simultaneously.

(10) RPG: A role playing game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

(11) Sci-fi: Short for science fiction, dealing with imaginative concepts such as; futuristic science, technology, etc.

(12) Fantasy: The activity of imaging impossible or improbable things.

(13) Survival horror: A sub genre of video games, inspired by horror that focuses on the survival of the character as the game tries to "jump scare" players.

(14) FPS: Frames per second, a measurement for how many unique consecutive images a camera can handle per second.

(15) A game, toy or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge.

(16) Avatar: An icon or figure representing a particular person in a video game, internet forum, etc.

(17) Augmented reality: A technology that superimposes a computer generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.

(18) Persistent worlds: A virtual world which continues to exist and develop internally even when there are no people interacting with it.  For example: Sims.

(19) Retro: Imitative of a style or fashion from the recent past.

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