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Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Jul 31, 2007
Whether making pinatas do the dance of love or breeding two Pokemon together, making fictional creatures make the fictional creature with two backs is a popular game concept.
Combining or raising animals, plants, or any variant of living items into a child or new item.
A chicken is a small, domesticated flightless bird that can be white, yellow, brown or black. A female is a hen, a male a rooster, and a baby a chick.
The act of preparing food by applying heat, often cooking in games produces items which yield some kind of benefit towards your character.
Cows are four-legged ruminant mammals, bred for milk, meat, or leather.
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
A dog is an animal, of which there are estimated to be 400 million of in the world. Said to be man's best friend, they naturally appear in many video games.
The 2007 E3 Media & Business Summit took place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on July 11-13.
Ahh, eating... We can't live without it, and, apparently, neither can some characters. From snakes to dots, games have odd ways of dishing out their dishes.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
From simply increasing quantity of fishes to the more complex breeding of the best fishes, it all comes down to fish breeding. This is a recurring feature in the Harvest Moon series, but has also appeared elsewhere.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
When a game has you picking flowers or plants as part of the game mechanic, such as for alchemy components or quest items.
Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
More effective than any hospital. These games let you heal damage; ranging from a black eye to a gunshot wound, just by having a snack.
Horse riding is mostly used in games to get around from one place to another quicker than you could on foot. They can also sometimes be used in combat or racing.
Equines that go 'neigh' and tend to eat hay. Some are the stars of motion pictures. The truest of companions to many adventurers.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
A gameplay mechanic allowing players to store their items and freely carry them around.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
Jewelcraft is the art of creating jewelery from precious metals and gemstones. The necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings, and other items crafted by this trade skill are often highly sought after.
A type of water sprite found in Japanese folklore.
Marriage is when characters, typically a pair of them, are joined in loving (or not so loving) matrimony!
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
The extraction of valuable minerals from the earth.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
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