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Apple Arcade is Apple's game subscription service for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Mac devices. It launched early for some iOS 13 public beta users on September 16, 2019, with a full release three days later.
Many males, and some females, experience pattern baldness, a gradual loss of hair.
These elongated, fearsome, saltwater fish have 27 different species.
A fish that has its eyes inside its gelatine like head pointing upwards.
Clam is a general term that covers all bivalve mollusks.
A bar, usually at the bottom of the screen, which tells you what direction enemies, locations, or main quests are.
A small, immobile marine animal found on the sea floor.
Crabs in all forms and sizes, not just the giant enemy variety.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
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.
Games that are divided into daily (or nightly) chapters.
Dialogue trees are a feature through which the player selects responses from a list of choices, eliciting reactions from NPCs and determining the path of the conversation and story.
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.
One of the smartest mammals on the planet and star of the Ecco the Dolphin games, dolphins live in the ocean and can perform a variety of tricks. Dolphins also have a particular fondness for fish.
A digital distribution platform operated by Epic Games.
Quotations displayed on the screen; often from world leaders, famous writers, or the Bible.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
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.
A species of shark with a distinct hammer-shaped head.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Jellyfish are ocean dwelling animals with a mushroom like top and tentacle like cilia on the bottom. They can be translucent or transparent.
A game that utilizes a letterbox frame when it is already running in a widescreen resolution.
Games that incorporate licensed music from popular bands and musicians for their soundtracks.
Big flat fish. You find them in tropical waters, typically around coral reefs.
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.
These games have an agenda - social, political, or otherwise. The message is hard to miss.
A post processing effect that blurs and streaks the entire frame. Loosely based on the behavior of real-world optics.
Aquatic creatures with eight tentacles covered with suction cups. They often appear as boss enemies.
Black-and-white predators of the sea. Despite being colloquially called killer whales, these marine mammals are actually dolphins.
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