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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| Anime | A style of Japanese film and television animation |
| Console | A panel or unit accommodating a set of controls for electronic or mechanical equipment |
| Cut Scene | A scene shown to the player when they reach a particular point in the game |
| ESA | The Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) specification is a royalty-free protocol for two-way communication of PC components |
| ESRB Rating | The Entertainment Software Rating Board is a self-regulatory organization that assigns age and content ratings to consumer video games |
| 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 are captured or displayed |
| Game Screens | The way the screen looks when playing a video game |
| Genre | A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter |
| Gone Gold | This indicates that the main development on the game is finished; the game is working and ready to move to the manufacturing stage |
| Grind | Grinding refers to the playing time spent doing repetitive tasks within a game to unlock a particular game item or to build the experience needed to progress smoothly through the game |
| Janky | Defects or low-quality processes that lead to poor response times for software, or that impede user operations |
| Level | A level is any space available to the player during the course of completion of an objective |
| Loot | Loot is the collection of items picked up by the player character that increase their power or level up their abilities, such as currency, spells, equipment and weapons |
| MMO | A massively multiplayer online game is an online video game with a large number of players, often hundreds or thousands, on the same server. |
| Pixels | A word invented from picture element is the basic unit of programmable color on a computer display or in a computer image |
| Platform | A game platform refers to the specific combination of electronic or computer hardware which, in conjunction with software, allows a videogame to operate |
| Quest | A quest, or mission, is a task in video games that a player-controlled character, party, or group of characters may complete in order to gain a reward |
| Realm | Each realm is a complete version of the game world, but each realm has its own players belonging to that particular realm |
| RPG | A video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics |
| Sprites | A sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game |
| Top-down | The game is viewed looking down, as if the "camera" were hovering over the game itself |