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An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
Audio logs are short voice recordings that a player comes across within a game that helps inform the player of the game's story and characters.
The game automatically saves for you when you reach certain points. Implemented in order to reduce frustration for forgetful savers.
Backtracking is the act of navigating through previously explored areas, usually for the purpose of progressing in an objective-based adventure game. Players who are lost may also backtrack to reorient themselves.
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
Computer games that automatically close to the desktop after completing the game.
A page devoted to cataloguing and explaining appearances and the use of concept art in games.
Games that ask the player whether they are sure about the decision that they have just made.
A sight placed on the HUD used to aim and provide a point of reference to the player when looking and interacting with the game world. Although they often aim weapons, they have a variety of uses and have appeared in many games in many different forms.
Darkness is used in games to restrict access, increase tension, or just to set a mood. Often the player has access to a light source that can mitigate its effect.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
A puzzle where you have to use your surroundings, i.e. "environment" in order to progress.
A digital distribution platform operated by Epic Games.
Everything you need isn't always spelled out for you on the map. Sometimes even the map is not there till you go explore it.
Quotations displayed on the screen; often from world leaders, famous writers, or the Bible.
First-person games in which the player character casts a shadow.
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.
FMVs are pre-rendered videos used in place of real-time graphics. Using FMV was an attempt to make videogames look "more like movies", sometimes with CGI animation and others with live-action actors speaking directly to players. The downside is that FMV requires a lot of disk space, and live-action FMV in particular can look terrible by comparison.
The concept of a game referencing another game through mockery, parody or even directly. A game reference to the same franchise does not count.
At E3 2013, Microsoft announced their Games with Gold campaign. The campaign offered two downloadable games a month for free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers for a limited number of months. On October 18, 2013, Microsoft stated they were extending the promotion indefinitely.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
A six sided geometrical shape sometimes used in strategy, puzzle, and board games.
A digital storefront which donates some of its profits to charity.
A bridge made using whatever is available at the moment; used as a method to cross obstacles, such as gaps or bodies of water.
When stuff that always used to work suddenly break down when you need it the most and you either have to fix it or find another way around.
Some games feature end credits that scroll over a playable segment of action.
Puzzles where light beams must be manipulated in certain ways, usually with a series of mirrors. Popular in action-adventure games.
One of the smaller innovations in the gaming industry was making the player's targeting reticle change colours depending on the situation.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
A game where you eventually receive a map of an area. Like in Metroid Prime you have map download stations to get a map outline of the area. This is the same concept in the exploring Castlevania games.
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