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Gaming Terms

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