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NPC
A non-player character is any character in a game which is not controlled by a player. The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster or referee rather than another player. In video games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer that has a predetermined set of behaviors that potentially will impact game play, but will not necessarily be true artificial intelligence.
Pentonimoes
A pentomino (or 5-omino) is a polyomino of order 5, that is, a polygon in the plane made of 5 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. When rotations and reflections are not considered to be distinct shapes, there are 12 different free pentominoes. When reflections are considered distinct, there are 18 one-sided pentominoes. When rotations are also considered distinct, there are 63 fixed pentominoes.
Gyroscopic sensor
A sensor used as an assistant in the stability of a robot. The mechanical system can determine the rotation and robot orientation on several axes giving the possibility for users to measure the angles and design robots with proper navigation systems and balance.
Cel-shading
A type of rendering intended to make computer graphics appear hand-drawn.
Touch Screen Interface
A type of user interface that uses the screen as the input device rather than a keyboard or mouse.
visual culture
Art criticism that integrates and studies all of the visual components of contemporary culture, including fine art, television, advertising, and so on.
backwards compatible
Backward compatibility (also known as backwards compatibility) is a property of a system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially in telecommunications and computing.
Euphoria physics
Euphoria Physics is a game engine animation software developed and created by NaturalMotion based on Dynamic Motion Synthesis, NaturalMotion's proprietary technology for animating 3D characters on-the-fly "based on a full simulation of the 3D character, including body, muscles and motor nervous system" on next-generation consoles. It is most well known in its incorporation into the Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), which Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption runs on, for its use in adv.
Free-to-play (F2P)
Free-to-play video games are games that give players access to a significant portion of their content without paying. Free-to-play is distinct from traditional commercial software, which requires a payment before using the game or service. It is also separate from free games, usually referred to as freeware, which are entirely costless. Free-to-play's model is sometimes derisively referred to as free-to-start due to not being entirely free.
GD-ROM
GD-ROM is a proprietary optical disc format originally used for the Dreamcast video game console, as well as its arcade counterpart, the Sega NAOMI and select Triforce arcade board titles. It was developed by Yamaha to curb piracy common to standard compact discs and to offer increased storage capacity without the expense of the fledgling DVD-ROM. It is similar to the standard CD-ROM except that the pits on the disc are packed more closely together, resulting in a higher storage capacity of 1 gigabyte, a 42% increase over a conventional CD's capacity of 700 megabytes.
Electrical conductance
In electronics and electromagnetism, the electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current. The reciprocal quantity is electrical conductance, and is the ease with which an electric current passes. Electrical resistance shares some conceptual parallels with the notion of mechanical friction. The SI unit of electrical resistance is the ohm (Ω), while electrical conductance is measured in siemens (S) (formerly called "mho"s and then represented by ℧).
AAA game
In the video-game industry, AAA is an informal classification used to categorise games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of game.
Kinematics
Kinematics is a subfield of physics, developed in classical mechanics, that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the forces that cause them to move. Kinematics, as a field of study, is often referred to as the "geometry of motion" and is occasionally seen as a branch of mathematics. A kinematics problem begins by describing the geometry of the system and declaring the initial conditions of any known values of position, velocity and/or acceleration of points within the system. Then, using arguments from geometry, the position, velocity and acceleration of any unknown parts of the system can be determined. The study of how forces act on bodies falls within kinetics, not kinematics. For further details, see analytical dynamics.
LED
Light Emitting Diode
Major League Gaming (MLG), 2002
Major League Gaming Corp. is a professional esports organization. MLG is headquartered in New York City, New York and was founded in 2002 by Sundance DiGiovanni and Mike Sepso. MLG has held official video game tournaments throughout the United States and Canada. The Boost Mobile MLG Pro Circuit was a television broadcast of Halo 2 MLG tournaments in 2006 and 2007, ESPN.com, and other broadband sites. The company has also been involved in television production, and game development. MLG's aim is to elevate computer and console game tournaments to viable competitive and spectator events.
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA)
Multiplayer online battle arena is a subgenre of strategy video games that originated as a subgenre of real-time strategy in which each player controls a single character, usually on a map in an isometric perspective, as part of a team competing against another team of players. The ultimate objective is to destroy the opposing team's main structure with the assistance of periodically-spawned computer-controlled units that march forward along set paths; However, MOBA games can have other victory conditions, such as defeating every player on the enemy team. Player characters typically have a set of unique abilities that improve over the course of a game and which contribute to a team's overall strategy. Multiplayer online battle arena games are a fusion of real-time strategy, role-playing, and action games, though MOBA players usually do not construct buildings or units, and there are examples of MOBA games that cannot be considered RTS at all, such as Smite, and Paragon. The genre has become a big part of the esports category.
OLED
Organic light emitting diode. A display technology that uses electroluminescence to light red green and blue subpixels that not only light the display like their LED counterparts but also produce the image like the cells in a plasma display.
Heads Up Display (HUD)
Provides aircraft altitude, steering, navigation, A/A and A/G weapons, and navigation FLIR video display into the pilot's forward field of view.
Realtime strategy
Real-time strategy ( RTS) is a sub-genre of strategy video games in which the game does not progress incrementally in turns. Real-time strategy games allow for all players to simultaneously play the game in "real-time". This is contrasted by turn-based strategy (TBS) games, where players must take turns to play.
Satoru Iwata
Satoru Iwata was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer. He was the fourth president and chief executive officer of Nintendo. He was a major contributor in broadening the appeal of video games by focusing on novel and entertaining games rather than top-of-the-line hardware.
Steam
Steam is a video game digital distribution service by Valve. It was launched as a standalone software client in September 2003 as a way for Valve to provide automatic updates for their games, and expanded to include games from third-party publishers. Steam has also expanded into an online web-based and mobile digital storefront. Steam offers digital rights management, server hosting, video streaming, and social networking services. It also provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud storage, and in-game voice and chat functionality.
Steam Community
Steam is a video game digital distribution service by Valve. It was launched as a standalone software client in September 2003 as a way for Valve to provide automatic updates for their games, and expanded to include games from third-party publishers. Steam has also expanded into an online web-based and mobile digital storefront. Steam offers digital rights management, server hosting, video streaming, and social networking services. It also provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud storage, and in-game voice and chat functionality.
Tetronimoes
Tetrominos, occasionally known alternately as tetrads, blocks, Tetriminos (official name), or tetriminoes, are the blocks used in every known Tetris game. They come in seven shapes, all of which can be rotated and then dropped. Tetrominoes all have an area of four squares.
App Store
The Apple App Store is a distribution platform for applications for Apple's iOS operating system.
SegaNet
The Dreamcast is a home video game console by Sega, the first one introduced in the sixth generation of video game consoles. With the release of the Dreamcast in 1998 amid the dot-com bubble and mounting losses from the failure of its predecessor, the Sega Saturn, Sega made a major gamble in attempting to take advantage of the growing public interest in the Internet by including online capabilities in the console as a selling point. As such, the Dreamcast was the first console to include a built-in modem for Internet support and online play. Sega would end up leaning heavily into the online capabilities to sell the Dreamcast as hype grew for Sony's then-upcoming competitor, the PlayStation 2, which also promised online gaming in addition to its DVD capabilities.
Sports League (ESL), 2000
The Electronic Sports League launched in the year 2000 as the successor of the Deutsche Clanliga, which was founded in 1997. The company began with an online gaming league and a gaming magazine. It also rented out servers for game competitions.In 2015, ESL's Intel Extreme Masters Katowice was at the time, the most watched esports event in history. The event had more than 100,000 in attendance and Twitch viewership was over one million.
Deutsche Clanliga, 1997; Electronic
The Electronic Sports League was launched in 2000 as the internationalization of the Deutsche ClanLiga. The ESL started as a series of online leagues as well as an online magazine known as ESLGaming.com. Since its launch, ESL has grown to be the largest esports company in the world with offices all around the globe. The Electronic Sports League was rebranded as just ESL in 2014. In July 2015, the Modern Times Groupacquired a majority stake (74.04%) in Turtle Entertainment, later increasing it by a further 8.44%
Game Development Conference
The Game Developers Conference is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like the Game Developers Choice Awards and Independent
twinstick shooter
The Twin-stick shooter, also known as top-down shooter, is a genre of video game, and a subtype of the shoot 'em up genre. Typically, a twin-stick shooter game tasks the player with eliminating a large number of enemies while also dodging their attacks, so as not to be killed. The defining feature of a twin-stick shooter is its placement of the camera directly above the player character, rather than behind them (as in a third-person shooter) or in their head (as in a first-person shooter).
World Cyber Games Tournament, 2000
The World Cyber Games is an international esports competition with multi-game titles in which hundreds of esports athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions also known as Esports Olympics. WCG events attempt to emulate a traditional sporting tournament, such as the Olympic Games; events included an official opening ceremony, and players from various countries competing for gold, silver, and bronze medals. WCG are held every year in other cities around the world. The WCG 2020 competition received nearly 650 million views worldwide.
Space Invaders Championship, 1980
The first major Esports tournament took place in America in 1980. The National Space Invaders Championship was organized by Atari - a pioneer in arcade games. Tournament attendances played the Space Invaders on Atari 2600 consoles. The tournament also had regional qualifiers in several US cities.
Stealth genre
The genre has employed espionage, counter-terrorism, and rogue themes, with protagonists who are special forces operatives, special agents, spies, thieves, ninjas, or assassins. Some games have also combined stealth elements with other genres, such as first-person shooters and platformers.
Fourth Wall
The imaginary wall of the box theater setting, supposedly removed to allow the audience to see the action.
twitch
Twitch is a video live streaming service operated by Twitch Interactive, a subsidiary of Amazon. Introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the general-interest streaming platform, Justin.tv, the site primarily focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of eSports competitions, in addition to music broadcasts, creative content, and more recently, "in real life" streams. Content on the site can be viewed either live or via video on demand.
USB
Universal serial bus port - allows you to connect different pieces of equipment to the computer
Tamogotchi
a handheld digital pet that was created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was released by Bandai on November 23, 1996 in Japan and on May 1, 1997 in the rest of the world, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. As of 2010, over 76 million Tamagotchis had been sold worldwide. As of 2017, over 82 million units have been sold. Most Tamagotchi are housed in a small egg-shaped computer with an interface consisting of three buttons.
DVD
digital video disc or digital versatile disc
HD
high definition
massively multiplayer online game (MMOG)
is usually an online virtual world that multiple players navigate and play in together. While in this virtual world, their avatars chat, cooperate, and quest together, oftentimes towards a goal.
Xbox Live
online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft
PVE
player versus environment
PVP
player versus player
Non-linear environment
presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences. Each player may take on (or even encounter) only some of the challenges possible, and the same challenges may be played in a different order. Conversely, a video game with linear gameplay will confront a player with a fixed sequence of challenges: every player faces every challenge and has to overcome them in the same order.
electroencephalography
the process of recording the electrical activity of the brain through the use of electrodes attached to the scalp
Synesthesia
the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.
user-generated content (UGC)
the various forms of online media content that are publicly available and created by end users
