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In game terms alchemy is typically an item creation system. Centuries ago it was the pursuit of changing normal metals into gold, unsuccessfully.
Also called a "Boob Slider", this is an interface that allows players to interactively increase or decrease the size of a character's breasts usually as a part of character creation.
An insect with broad colorful wings.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
The ability to change the color of a character's clothing/armor or even a vehicle's paint with or without the use of an in-game item to do so.
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
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.
Fairies appear in many games, usually as a race that will assist players with magic. Fairies are almost exclusively female.
Someone who fights fire.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
Genies, which originated from Arabia, are supernatural creatures that are magical and many can grant wishes. Some have a lamp or bottle and the owner of said item has power over them, including forcing them back into it and making them stay there.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
Used in many games such as Sim City and Black & White to make sweeping changes to the environment or to move massive objects.
The expression of care and love, an act performed in many games.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
The act of pressing your lips against someone or something else as a sign of affection.
Marriage is when characters, typically a pair of them, are joined in loving (or not so loving) matrimony!
Never Ending Games is a self-explanatory concept in which a game is unbeatable and never ends, due either to the game having no true ending or because the game is not saved (or truly continued) after the last section of the game.
Nudity is qualified as either exposed buttocks, breasts, or genitalia or general lack of clothing. Video game nudity is largely a rarity outside of the PC market.
Non-linear level design where the player is able to freely traverse the game world and choose where and when to visit certain areas in the game.
The act of changing a section of a graphic to a low resolution (i.e. enlarging the pixels) in order to "blur" it. Commonly used to censor an image.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Pregnancy is the term for when a female of a species is carrying a new, developing member of the species within her body.
Games where players are given material to read; this includes books, newspapers, and emails.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
Male characters who are depicted in an overtly sexual manner.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
When a game lets you sit down somewhere for no other reason than to simply sit down. Often seen in MMORPGs as a way of hanging out and talking to friends.
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