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Larceny by threat of violence. In video games you either plan and executes such robberies, or your job is to prevent them.
A joke or reference that appears throughout a series of games.
Whether searching for loot as a pirate, or attacking enemy ships in the navy, there is nothing quite like sailing the seas.
Characters that have a Scottish accent.
SCUMM is an acronym for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion. SCUMM is scripting language developed internally at LucasArts to help streamline the creation of graphic adventure games.
Most achievement systems allow developers to hide certain achievements, obscuring details about them until a player has earned the achievement.
A person leading a double life. Many comic book characters have one and sometimes the plot of their stories is keeping their secret identities a secret.
In-game jokes or Easter eggs involving references to characters or events from earlier in a game or the game's series.
A ship deck battle is a cliché battle scene found in the vast majority of Japanese RPGs. It takes place on a ship or an airship, pitting the protagonists against seamonsters or flying monsters respectively.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Side-scrolling games present the world as viewed perpendicular to the direction the characters are facing on screen. With a heavy focus on lateral movement, objectives are often met by moving from one end of a stage to the other.
Sidekicks, different from partners, are less powerful, less important characters who support the main protagonist and generally stick by their side.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
The skeleton is the framework of the human body.
A type of enemy that appears in every Adventures of Lolo game. When all of the Heart Framers have been collected, it chases Lolo and kills him if they make contact.
Slashing weapons are designed to cut and slice rather than causing blunt trauma. Examples include swords, axes, claws, naginatas, or even whips.
The player goes to an ordinary, seemingly benevolent small town, only to find that there are some very strange things afoot there...
When a musical performance happens in a game, often this is used for comedic purposes.
A speedrun describes the action of a player attempting to complete a game in the fastest time possible. The rules of speedruns can vary, but generally allow glitching and sequence breaking as long as the player does not cheat with external devices/tools or tampering with the game.
A contest where the winner is the person who can spit the furthest.
Marine animals characterized by five arms extending from a central disk. They are a lot more agile in video games than they are in real life.
A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
Valve's counterpart to Microsoft's popular achievement system.
Steam Cloud is a built in feature in some Steam games, it synchronizes game saves, settings and other data to the internet for access from any computer that has Steam installed.
A series of Steam features related to cross-platform play, including cross-buy, cross-play, and Linux compatibility layers.
Subtitled Silence is when a character remains silent in a section of dialogue and a subtitle box appears usually having an ellipsis (...) or nothing at all. Most common in J-RPGs and dating sims. The character can also make a small moan or grunt.
You want an example? Know what I mean? See what I did there? *Wink wink, nudge nudge*
A person more than adept in the art of sword fighting.
Animals that have the ability of speech and in some cases are anthropomorphic.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
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