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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.
The ability of a player to interact with items or geometry in the game world, whether for story or gameplay reasons or simply for immersion.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
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.
Sometimes, things are just meant to happen the way they do. Usually triggered by a timer, or by the player crossing a checkpoint.
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.
A physics system used to procedurally generate body movement similar to rag dolls.
A gameplay mechanic allowing players to store their items and freely carry them around.
Collecting objects in a game such as weapons, armor, items, and currency. Loot is often associated with RPG games and MMOs with RPG elements.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
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