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Ants are small insects that live in nests and work together for a queen. Can be gene-modified to grow huge.
A mode in which a game will play a gameplay demonstration video as a means to entice players into playing the game.
Usually yellow and black striped, these flying, flower loving loving insects can come singly or in a swarm. A major producer of honey and stings.
The ultimate pressure feature. Players have to complete the task at hand, be it defeating opponents or cutting the right wire, in the allotted time.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
When a character goes to the edge of a platform and starts to wobble. Most commonly seen in side-scrolling platformers.
It's not just for airplanes anymore: Game mascots and MMO players alike have taken to the skies. Players can use flight to quickly navigate large levels, find hidden items, or take opponents down.
Enemies that prefer to keep a distance to the ground, and swoop down occasionally to do some damage.
A frog is a small and usually green amphibian that can swim, hop, and ribbit. Sadly, most of them aren't princes.
Any game that involves jumping on an enemy's head as an attack, such as in Super Mario Bros.
An intermission is a little scene shown between rounds to give the player a break. It may advance the storyline or just be humorous. The intermission can be seen as a grandfather to the cutscene, as they often featured humerous animations that weren't necessarily related to the gameplay at all.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
The act of granting freedom to prisoners or subjugated NPCs.
The concept of lives in video games evolved to let the player get a second chance after failing once. The most recognizable symbol is the heart.
A place to fall, often bottomless, usually resulting in death.
Snails are molluscs that leave a trail of mucus. Slugs are snails without the shell.
An eight legged arachnid. Some make webs to catch prey and some are poisonous. None have made a web grand enough to be called a parlor, though.
Super Speed is the ability for a character to travel at speeds normally unattainable by regular humans. Super speed can be a stock super power by characters such as the Flash & Sonic the Hedgehog, or a technologically enhanced ability like Nomad in Crysis.
The part in a story-based game where you become nigh indestructible and really powerful for as long as the game decides. Example: The Upgraded Gravity Gun section in Half-Life 2.
When a certain amount of time is given to the player to reach a goal or finish an objective.
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