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A game that uses a mixture of 2D & 3D techniques. Commonly used to describe the use of either 3D graphics restricted to a 2D perceptive, or 2D graphics used to fake the appearance of a 3D perceptive.
ASCII is often used as a way to replace images where they can't be used, i.e. maps in a text based guide. In the past, adventure-games have also used ASCII-art.
Attributes are a numerical representation of a character's abilities who have their roots in RPGs. Today, attributes have spilled over to a wide range of game genres.
Players can design a base or dungeon for their characters to inhabit.
Necessary to sustain life in organic creatures, the crimson fluid known as blood tends to make appearances when the body's structure is compromised in some way, a very, very common occurrence in videogames.
Feline animals commonly kept as pets. There are many different breeds and varieties.
The concept of building a single city and its respective houses/institutions (e.g. Sim City) or building cities as part of an extending empire (e.g. Civilization).
Trading systems allow players to trade items, money and other objects between each other.
The act of building something. Using resources to build units, buidlings, structures of any kind.
Crafting allows players to create their own items with the correct ingredients. It is used mainly in MMOs and RPGs.
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
A cyclops is any race of creature that is born with only one eye.
Some games just won't settle for laughs. Some games make you want to cringe as you're busting a gut.
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
Sometimes designers add old-school things on purpose to enhance game design. These games tend to be heavily inspired by hardware limitations of older systems. NES, Atari 2600, and early computer platforms (DOS, Commodore 64, MSX, etc...) are common sources of inspiration.
The severing of limbs is a good way for designers to make every battle a bloodier, gorier mess. Or sillier in the right situations.
A dog is an animal, of which there are estimated to be 400 million of in the world. Said to be man's best friend, they naturally appear in many video games.
Dragons were originally messengers from heaven, according to early Buddhist texts. In games, they can be among the most fearsome of adversaries, but there are some exceptions.
Carefully exploring a large, labyrinthine area full of enemies (i.e., a dungeon) in the hopes of finding treasure, leveling up, or completing a specific task. Having their roots in tabletop games, video game dungeon crawls are found almost exclusively in RPGs.
Dwarves are a short, stout race that appear in any number of fantasy games and stories. They are almost always depicted as short with bushy beards similar to vikings. They can also be identified by their love for ale and gold.
Elves are a race found in a lot of games based on a fantasy setting. They are recognizable by their elongated ears and often live much longer than humans. Some are even immortal. There are many variations of Elves.
Concept where 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.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
Enemies that prefer to keep a distance to the ground, and swoop down occasionally to do some damage.
Freeware games are those which have their full versions legally free to download or otherwise obtain.
Giant rats are like regular rats but significantly bigger. Giant rats are the first enemy in many role playing games.
Goblins are irritable, evil and mischievous creatures in folklore. They can range in size from halfling to average human size.
Grid-based movement limits players, and other entities in a game, to moving through the game world in increments of whole squares on a grid. It has been a common staple of turn-based strategy games since the earliest board games of antiquity. It was also used by early RPGs.
Constantly killing creatures without doing official quests or objectives, to advance in rank or level.
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