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A staple of almost any racing game, the pit is the on-track location where players fix their cars, as well as modify their setups to account for changing track conditions.
A video game creation tool.
A path that is displayed on screen to help guide the player to certain objectives.
Carnivorous animal of the Hyaenida family, most known for their distinctive laugh and the assistance in the assassination of Mufasa.
A now discontinued video game software engine.
Foraging is the ability to effectively gather food and drink from ones surroundings. Rangers, druids, and elves often excel in this skill.
Some traps are reusable even after successfully trapping something or someone. Sometimes they must be carefully disarmed first.
A delicious, hirsute combination of beef and buffalo. This neutral mob is often found in herds in the plains.
A system that gives a game the technical capability to implement the effects of gore which include but are not limited to, dismemberment, charring, beheading and gibbing. Gore systems have progressed significantly over the years from enemies scattering into pixels to highly detailed body tearing.
Shrine maidens, or miko, are girls or young women who perform various duties at Shinto shrines.
Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment (named to fit the acronym 'FREE') is a quasi-genre invented by designer Yu Suzuki, describing a blend of adventure and open-world sandbox gameplay found in the Shenmue franchise.
The yakuza are Japanese organized crime syndicates. Members are often identified by their elaborate tattoos.
The collective body of all the Kanto regions yakuza clans, consisting of up to 30,000 men. Originally founded by Makoto Tojo.
A look implying an authoritative, smart, good looking woman that always includes glasses. The combination of these characteristics may appeal to certain men or women, and is a popular sexual fantasy.
Used in many games such as Sim City and Black & White to make sweeping changes to the environment or to move massive objects.
Found in many Real Time Strategies, walls are meant to keep your people safe and the enemy out.
Head Tracking is a concept which allows a game to follow the movement of the players head and change what is displayed on the screen relevant to the players head movements.
Adopted from horror films, a screamer is an image that's suddenly displayed on-screen, often accompanied by a loud scream or musical sting.
Urban legends, particularly horrific ones, have come back into vogue among Internet communities, where they are referred to as "creepypasta". Some of the more popular examples have been adapted into video games.
Known as Chi in Chinese and Ki in Japanese, it is spiritual energy which cultivates itself through training and meditation. In experienced hands, it becomes a form of visible energy which can heal, destroy, or do many other tasks, determined by the amount of Ki and the user's overall ability to manipulate it.
Youkai are supernatural beings from Japanese folklore
A philosophical and religious system based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
Sligs are a race from the Oddworld series. They are one of the main enemies you encounter.
A race of chain-smoking tyrannical industrialists operating on Oddworld with little regard for anything except bigger profits.
Retcon, as it is more commonly known, is a change in an existing storyline to accommodate future games in the same fiction.
Tattoos that represent upgrades.
Elums are the Mules of the Oddworld wildlife. They are loyal, trustworthy, and very fast.
Serving as polar opposites to the Jedi, they revel in dark side of the Force and lust power above all else. Sith Lords are identified by their "Darth" title, while lesser Sith and Dark Jedi are not allocated this title.
The Red Bird is the original Angry Bird and is the mascot of the franchise.
The absence of belief in the existence of gods.
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