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Code of Conduct

Crafting

Crafting allows players to create their own items with the correct ingredients. It is used mainly in MMOs and RPGs.

Credits Menu Option

These games let players see the credits without needing to play the game first.

Digital Distribution

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.

Farming

Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.

Free to Play

Free to Play titles allow a user to play a version of the game without paying an initial purchase fee, but generally require the purchase of microtransactions to access additional content.

Jump

It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto a building, a platform, or a skull, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.

Live Service Game

A game that uses a continuous update and revenue model.

Online

Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.

Options Menu

Options menus give you the option to change anything the game lets you change. Whether you want subtitles or not, sound effects or not, the game to be harder or not, anything you want that the game lets you change, you can change in the options menu.

Photosensitivity Warning

A warning to players that might get seizures from certain patterns, lights, or images.

Single Word Titles

Games whose titles consist of a single word.

Sprinting

A gameplay mechanic which allows the player to move faster than the normal speed. Usually for a set amount of time.

Steam

A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.