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An AI companion is a computer-controlled ally who follows and aids you through your adventures or who requires your protection. The AI companion's survival is often essential to game and story progression.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Games that have animals (except humans) as the main character. The character must be playable.
Auto-aiming (or Auto-targeting) allows for a character to attack or interact with an object or enemy that's very near to the player or within their field of vision.
Extra content in games that feature behind the scenes content such as interviews, concept art, and other things related to the development of the game.
Biggyfoot is a enemy that resembles "Big Foot"
A proprietary video codec (.bik/bk2 extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
Bosses are enemies that fight you at the end of a level or at a significant point in the story.
A concept in games with multiple characters, a screen with pictures of all playable characters with the possibility of stat listings.
A Chinker is a large ice cube in the Banjo-Kazooie franchise
Collectibles are items such as coins, rings, gems, packages etc. that can be gathered, usually for some kind of reward, or sometimes to simply beat a level. Often (almost too often) the source of earning achievements and trophies on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Usually seen in 3D platformers, these games ask you to collect certain objects to open up additional levels.
The comic relief is a character, other than the main character, who is meant to add humor and lighten the mood of the game. These characters are usually very dumb or very witty, and are usually very talkative.
Sometime companies include the name of a company in a title. Usually it's their own, but they have been known to shill for others.
A page devoted to cataloguing and explaining appearances and the use of concept art in games.
These games let players see the credits without needing to play the game first.
Croctus are a group of golden crocodiles that like eggs.
Cursed Beehives are an evil varient of the standard Beehive.
A gameplay mode that pits two or more players in a fight to the death. John Romero is credited with coining the multiplayer term "deathmatch."
Decapitation is the removal of the head of a person or animal.
When a prominent character is voiced by a member of the development team. The authors Clive Barker and Harlan Ellison are good examples of this.
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.
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.
An Easter Egg is an intentionally hidden cheat or hidden content in a video game, also known as a "secret".
Emulation is the means by which games intended for one platform are rendered playable on another. Emulation is used for various purposes, ranging from allowing older games to be playable on newer hardware to software development for various platforms.
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
Cold-blooded aquatic animals that have scales and breathe through gills.
A flower-loving butterfly piñata that proves you are, in fact, what you eat
Graphic Filters are removable filters that change the look of the graphics in a game. They can range from making a game look like an old film, to smoothing the pixellated graphics of an old game.
A Grille Chompa is a large lungfish that appears in multiple locations in Banjo-Kazooie
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