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Gaming Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Action | The fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim. |
| Anime | A style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children. |
| Assets | A useful or valuable thing, person or quality. |
| Console | Comfort (someone) at time of grief or disappointment. |
| 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 players character dies. |
| ESB | An enterprise service bus |
| ESBR Rating | ESRB ratings provide information about what's in a game or app so parents and consumers can make informed choices about which games are right for their family. |
| Events | a thing that happens, especially one of importance |
| First Person Shooter | short for first-person shooter. |
| FPS (Frames Per Second) | 5. 0:08. Frame rate, then, is the speed at which those images are shown, or how fast you “flip” through the book. It's usually expressed as “frames per second,” or FPS. |
| Game Screen Genre | Genres may encompass a wide variety of games, leading to even more specific classifications called subgenres. |
| GML | The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features |
| Grind | reduce (something) to small particles or powder by crushing it. |
| Janky | of extremely poor or unreliable quality |
| Loot | goods, especially private property, taken from an enemy in war. |
| MMO | an online video game which can be played by a very large number of people simultaneously |
| Object | a material thing that can be seen and touched. |
| Origin Point | : the place where something comes from : the place where something originates The package's point of origin was somewhere in the U.S. |
| Pixels | a material thing that can be seen and touched. |
| Platform | a raised level surface on which people or things can stand. |
| Quest | a long or arduous search for something. |
| Realm | a kingdom. |
| Room | space that can be occupied or where something can be done, especially viewed in terms of whether there is enough |
| RPG | Alternative Titles: electronic RPG, electronic role-playing game |
| Sprites | an elf or fairy. |
| SDK | Software Development Kit |
| Strategy | a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim. |
| Top-Down | denoting a system of government or management in which actions and policies are initiated at the highest level; hierarchical. |
| YOYO | a toy consisting of a pair of joined discs with a deep groove between them in which string is attached and wound, which can be spun alternately downward and upward by its weight and momentum as the string unwinds and rewinds. |