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Giant rats are like regular rats but significantly bigger. Giant rats are the first enemy in many role playing games.
Usually found in adventure games, when players combine two or more items to create one or more new items.
Most commonly found in older RPGs, fellow party members will follow exactly one square behind you/another party member.
A set of questions posed to the player, commonly at the beginning of a game, that may affect certain aspects of the game.
Isekai is a Japanese concept where a normal person transported into another world. It is a fantasy subgenre of Japanese anime, manga, light novel and video games.
Palette-swapping are sometimes used to denote the different strengths and abilities of your adversaries.
Kaiju is the Japanese term for monster or strange beasts, commonly associated with giant monsters such as Godzilla. Kaiju appear as enemies in games, but just as often they are controlled by the player.
Games in which fire can spread continuously across the environment or between objects.
The art of a game developer to use their instruction manual as a pass key to ward off piracy. This included making books or flyers inside that were impossible to photo copy.
The titular people in EA/Maxis's universe of Sim games. They serve as the citizens in SimCity, and star in the Sims series.
The concept of building a single city and its respective houses/institutions (e.g. Sim City) or building cities as part of an extending empire (e.g. Civilization).
Traffic consists a bunch of cars, pedestrians and other vehicles using a common transport route.
When platform companies got the idea of selling their product in a colorful box they have included artwork and screenshots of various games that can be played on the platform.
A real-life athlete who appears on the cover art of a sports game. Usually an up-and-coming star in the sport or a perennial fan favorite.
Games prominently featuring celebrities, who either endorse the game or act as the focus of the story. Games with characters who happen to be played by celebrities are not always tie-ins.
The act of aerial combat between two or more fighter aircraft. A common occurrence in many combat flight games, it is the equivalent of a firefight in a first- or third-person shooter.
We all know that explosions will get you to buy a game. This is why you want stuff blowing up on your game cover!
Collecting objects in a game such as weapons, armor, items, and currency. Loot is often associated with RPG games and MMOs with RPG elements.
When the player's actions trigger a change in the game's soundtrack. This adds a cinematic quality to the gameplay.
The act of taking on an in-game task; most often, these are provided to the player by an NPC. MMOs and RPGs are the primary users of this concept.
Sometimes it's hard to resist the urge to accumulate a vast amount of valuables.
Some games only allow the player character to carry a single item in their inventory at one time.
A style of gameplay where players must navigate a vast stream of projectiles.
A horde of allied creatures under the players control.
Zombies, more accurately called the walking dead, are reanimated corpses who feed on the living, and have become a ubiquitous video game enemy. They often move slowly, but can be deadly in large numbers, which is unfortunately how they tend to travel. Shotgun time!
In the Fullmetal Alchemist universe, a homunculus is a being that seeks to be human. They are created when a person has failed to resurrect someone from the dead with Alchemy. They look exactly like the dead person who was being revived except they have tattoos on their bodies.
Large birds that like to swoop and eat things. And they have large talons.
Drenched in muck, these zombies crawl around all fours, making them difficult to spot. When struck by one, a survivor's screen will be splattered with a muddy effect, hampering a players view.
Dryads are tree nymphs from Greek mythology. They have made appearances in a number of games.
Medusa Heads are found in Castlevania games. They fly around trying to collide into the player.
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