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A method of attempting to scare the player by the sudden unexpected occurrence of an event - often accompanied by some sort of audio sting.
Some games only allow the player character to carry a single item in their inventory at one time.
People who ride skateboards.
A special challenge mode offered by some games in which players test themselves against a predetermined scenario, which changes each day.
Loftwings are bird-like creatures that feature heavily in The Legend of Zelda: Skyword Sword.
Nihilism is a philosophy that life is meaningless.
Boos are one of enemies in Sonic Adventure 2.
A feature that enables the player to review recent conversations. Mostly used in visual novels.
A hand gesture with a long and controversial history.
Bookworms are the characters who always have their face buried between the pages of a book. It doesn't matter if it's a mystic spellbook or just a tattered paperback, they'd rather read about an epic adventure than have one.
A fake glitch is a "glitch" coded into the game, designed to confuse, scare, or amuse the player.
A visual effect where color channels are deliberately misaligned.
Games that are specifically based on Internet phenomena, such as memes, stories, and webcomics.
Games that feature online personalities from YouTube, Twitch, etc.
A professional and amateur sport, played world-wide, in which two teams advance a ball up and down a court in order to score "field goals," by throwing the ball through a basket or hoop. The team with the highest score at the end of timed play wins.
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A twice-annual Japanese convention designed for buying and selling doujin works.
Concept in which designers fuse usefulness of multiple classes into a single class. A Jack of All Trades and (usually) Master of None.
Poet and scholar, singer and narrator. A lover of wine, women and song, the bard is the iconic minstrel of the medieval world.
Any practitioner of magic (wizard, sorcerer, mage, necromancer, etc.) who casts spells. Even unlearned scholars can throw a mean magic missile every now and then.
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.
Randomly spoken lines, usually used for comedic purposes.
In game compliments are whenever a game compliments you, be it the announcer or when something on screen tells you.
A disembodied voice that narrates or announces certain game aspects, like the round counts in fighting games or instructing the player to select a character.
A virus which affects computer systems.
When a crew member or someone close to the crew passes away before a project is released, or they contributed significantly to an earlier project, that person is often still credited for their work or given a dedication.
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