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Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Oct 15, 2019
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.
Digitized sprites, popularized in the early 90s, were a form of graphics that used footage of real actors, Stop-motion frames of a figure/clay model or 3D renders of characters that were then made digital and put into the game.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
Developed by BioWare for the first Baldur's Gate game, the Infinity Engine features an isometric perspective, pre-rendered 2D backgrounds and sprite-based characters.
Collecting objects in a game such as weapons, armor, items, and currency. Loot is often associated with RPG games and MMOs with RPG elements.
Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
Optional Censorship gives one the ability to remove or obscure content that is possibly offensive or objectionable.
Games that used 3D polygonal renders of CGI characters/objects/enviroment for it's sprites and graphics, Famously done in Rareware's Donkey Kong Country trilogy and Killer Instinct series. This technique would reach the height of it's popularity on the GBA.
Games where players are given material to read; this includes books, newspapers, dialogue, letters, journals, notes, and emails. Both Japanese and Western RPGs as well as story driven Adventure Games tend to ultize this feature, some Open World Action Adventures contain this feature as well.
Sometimes, things are just meant to happen the way they do. Usually triggered by a timer, or by the player crossing a checkpoint.
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