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Gaming Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Action | A thing done or an action |
| Anime | a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children. |
| Assets | property owned by a person or company, regarded as having value and available to meet debts, commitments, or legacies. |
| Console | a small electronic device for playing computerized video games. |
| Cut Scene | (in a video game) a scene that develops the story line and is often shown on completion of a certain level, or when the player's character dies. |
| ESA | the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. |
| ESRB rating | ratings that help people decide what age or type of person should play a videogame |
| Events | a thing that happens, especially one of importance |
| First Person Shooter | a type of video game whose gameplay involves shooting enemies and other targets and in which a player views the action as though through the eyes of the character they are controlling. |
| FPS (frames per Second) | Frame rate is the frequency at which consecutive images called frames appear on a display. |
| Game Screens Genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. |
| GML | Game Maker Language |
| Gone Gold | When a game is ready to be put on the master disc on which all other copy’s will be made from. |
| Grind | performing repetitive tasks, usually for a gameplay advantage or loot but in some cases for purely aesthetic or cosmetic benefits. |
| Loot | describes valuable items picked up by the player character over the course of the game, such as in-game currency, spells, equipment and weapons |
| Janky | Glitchy, buggy, weird issues in the game, something goes wrong in a game randomly. |
| MMO | an online game with large numbers of players, often hundreds or thousands, on the same server. |
| Object | material thing that can be seen and touched. |
| Origin Point | the place where something comes from : the place where something originates |
| Pixels | a minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed. |
| Platform | a computer system specially made for playing video games |
| Quest | search for something. |
| Realm | a primary biogeographical division of the earth's surface. |
| Room | part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling. |
| RPG | electronic game genre in which players advance through a story quest, and often many side quests, for which their character or party of characters gain experience that improves various attributes and abilities. |
| Sprites | is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game. |
| SDK | Software development kit |
| Strategy | genre of video game that emphasize skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory. |
| Top-Down | Any game that offers an elevated viewpoint above the action |
| YOYO | move up and down; fluctuate. |