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Indie Gala is a pay-what-you-want bundle of indie games. Much like the Humble Indie Bundle, the purchase price is split between the game developers, two charities, and Indie Gala itself.
The highly mutated virus developed by the Umbrella Corporation.
A powerful genetically engineered bio-weapon created by the Umbrella Corporation. Created by combining a sample of the Progenitor Virus with an ancient virus found in the genes of a Queen ant.
You can see the villain, but why are they in that huge, squishy monster shell?
A zealot is a religious fanatic.
The concept of being reborn as someone or something else following one's own demise.
When a character in a video game must explore their own psyche to progress through the game. Although this can be metaphorical, more often than not, the character does so literally.
Raw Shocks are monsters encountered in Silent Hill. They change appearance as the game progresses.
A pervasive feeling of sadness, perpetual boredom, or both, which can dramatically affect a person's life.
Games that involve characters who must find their way out of a sinking car.
The phone rings. You answer it, only to be interrupted by a cryptic message or noise. Or someone just hung up.
When a relative is missing, and the protagonist is forced to look for the aforementioned relative.
Game endings that are meant to be absurd and that fly in the face of a dramatic storyline. Joke endings are often included as bonuses that require the player to beat the game a certain way in order to be seen.
The player goes to an ordinary, seemingly benevolent small town, only to find that there are some very strange things afoot there...
The Otherworld is the darker-side dimensional world in the Silent Hill game series.
Therapy is treatment for people with either psychological or psychiatric problems who seek help.
A game mechanic that lets players add footnotes to maps.
A set of questions posed to the player, commonly at the beginning of a game, that may affect certain aspects of the game.
A Japanese breed of dog.
Not simply a plot twist, a Tomato Surprise is a narrative trope where a momentous plot detail, which is already known by the principle character(s), is kept from the audience until a critical point in the story. It is the opposite of Dramatic Irony, which is where the viewer knows something the characters do not.
Spectrasonics Bizarre Guitar is a music library commonly found in compositions.
Konami and Hudson's Japanese re-releases for around 1980 yen.
Londo Bell is the protagonist group from Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. It is also the name given to the player's team in most early Super Robot Wars games.
One who invents, preferably stuff that no one have thought of before.
A "Tech Tree" is a concept used mainly in strategy and role playing games. Unlocking a node in the tree generally unlocks some effect (example: a new ability in a role playing game or new unit in a strategy game). Unlocking a parent node allows access to its child nodes.
A game mechanic in which you can interact with another country/civilization. Usually games allow you to declare war, offer peace, trade, etc. using diplomacy.
A story element in which a significant amount of time passes in a short period. Usually marked by major changes in character ages and personalities.
Earrings, greatswords, and rubber suits. Some party members simply don't have the assets needed to wear these items.
A hybrid of the Amnesia and Immortality concepts, an Amnesiac Immortal is an immortal who has lost his/her past memories. This could mean that they've lived so long that they've forgotten about much of their past, or that they may not even be aware that they are in fact immortal.
Short one-line audio clips spoken by the NPCs that populate the game world. Can be random or in reaction to the player or events.
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