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A young woman or girl who is charmingly naive or unsophisticated, and generally very innocent and pure-hearted. How long she lasts and how well she holds onto her innocence are generally good ways of gauging how dark or cynical a work is.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
A distinctive song associated with the game (often played during the introduction/end credits). Note: This concept deals just with songs with lyrics, as opposed to instrumental pieces.
A helpful reminder of how long it's been since the last checkpoint.
Some tears often lead to the 1980s.
Anguish of body or mind. Can be used by authority figures to extract sensitive information that would not be given under normal circumstances.
A government that restricts the flow of information, or willingly subjugates it's people.
A mechanical system designed to capture or cause harm. Either the player can set traps for their enemies or others set them for the player.
A twister, or tornado, is a localized windstorm characterized by a rotating column of air resembling a funnel-shaped cloud.
Developed by Epic Games, Unreal Engine 3 is the third generation of the Unreal engine, and is base for numerous games, such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War and Roboblitz.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. Urination is found in games for a number of reasons, including comic relief and a quick pathway to sobriety.
A video game concept in which plainly valuable items, weapons, and even hard currency are routinely found in trash cans and roadside dumpsters.
Verticality relates to the scale of spaces in a game and the player's ability and freedom to traverse them. It implies that a player has freedom of movement that extends to vertical planes through abilities, vehicles, or level design.
Oh no! The last enemy is dead, but all your friends are fallen! How will you ever go on alone?! Wait! Did you hear that sound? That means the battle is over, and all your dead allies can get back up, good as new. You've heard the victory gong.
Zachary Hale Comstock is presented as the game's main antagonist.
A visual representation of a character's, or camera's vision range.
A visual obstruction is an extra layer added to the player's viewpoint. Most common in first person games to add to the notion that you are looking through a character's eyes. Obstructions include blood, water and ice crystals.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
A extreme communist resistance group from Bioshock Infinite that rebelled against The Founders.
WASD, or WADS, is the most common and often the default setting to move the player character in computer games with a first or third person perspective.
An audio signal that contains noise at the same level at all frequencies. Appears on TV screens and video transmissions as static "snow".
A man whose wife has died.
Air moving with a considerable force. It's important to take wind into consideration when playing golf.
When a protagonist/hero works for the bad guy. It may be unintentional or completely voluntary.
A middleware engine for game audio, developed by Audiokinetic Inc.
This is a list of PC games which support connecting an Xbox 360 controller to your computer and using it to play the game.
A subscription service from Microsoft on Xbox platforms and Windows 10. Described as "Netflix for video games", users pay a monthly fee to gain access to a range of titles or buy to own them at a discount price.
Xbox 360 and original Xbox games that have been approved to run on the Xbox One's backwards compatibility feature.
Games in which specific enhancements are made when played on an Xbox One X.
A zealot is a religious fanatic.
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