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An act of Mother Nature that brings hardship on humanity and the world.
The title of a game is a year, or has a year in it. Normally used for sports game and other annual titles, but also used to designate when a game takes place rather than the year released.
A type of religion that originates from Africa.
These games are based off of established licenses, such as movies, comics, or TV shows. Examples are the James Bond 007 and Spider-Man franchises.
The concept of seemingly religious phenomena being explained as the work of alien civilizations.
Headquartered on Earth, Starfleet is the diplomatic, exploratory, research, and paramilitary defence force of the United Federation of Planets in the Star Trek universe.
Don't believe anyone. There's more going on here than is immediately apparent.
Spies are the masters of espionage. They're also (usually) quite adept at the art of stealth, disguise, and assassination.
A framing device for storytelling in which the main character is recounting the events of the game's plot (the actual gameplay) to someone as a flashback while they are being interrogated.
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.
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.
Arguably the most fearsome of all the reptiles - it has scales and no legs. Snakes use a variety of tactics to harm players such as poison, hypnosis, and constriction. The most deadly snakes have mastered the way of stealth.
The graphical process of applying color to a blank surface.
Animal antagonists feature in works where the player character is a human or reasonably humanoid (such as an alien) and the primary villain or an important rival is an animal. They may have some human-like tendencies such as speech or wearing clothes, but ultimately are non-anthropomorphic.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
A series of card games where players flip cards over in an attempt to match pairs. As cards are flipped back over on non-pairings, it requires players to remember where each card is. Known by a variety of names (including "Pairs" and the brand-name "Memory").
This concept is for games in which at least one of the main characters is male.
“Indie” or “independently developed” games are video games which are developed by a studio without the support of an external publisher.
Homebrew software is a slang term for unofficial software and games for consoles and handhelds which don't generally support it, such as the Wii or Nintendo DS.
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