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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 a 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 player's character dies |
| ESA | Th e Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association. |
| ESRB Rating | ESRB is the abbreviation for Entertainment Software Rating Board, a self-regulatory body for the interactive entertainment software industry established in 1994 by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) |
| 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) | FPS stand for frames per second, a measurement for how many unique consecutive images a camera can handle each second. Low-end digital still cameras typically have a frame rate of 1fps. Low end digital video cameras typically have a frame rate of 30fp |
| Game screens Genre | A video game genre is a classification assigned to a video game based on its gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences. Moreover, each individual game may belong to several genres at once. |
| GML | The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic transact |
| Gone Gold | "Going Gold" is the music industry's parlance for selling 500,000 copies of an album. "Going Platinum" means the album has gone to the next step, doubling the sales to 1 million copies. |
| 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 | 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 | Definition of point of origin. : the place where something comes from : the place where something originates The package's point of origin was somewhere in the U.S. the point of origin of the fire that burned the building down |
| Pixels | a minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed. |
| Platform | a raised level surface on which people or things can stand |
| Quest | a long or arduous search for something. |
| Realm | a field or domain of activity or interest |
| Room | space that can be occupied or where something can be done, especially viewed in terms of whether there is enough. |
| RPG | a role-playing game or an RPG as well as a computer role-playing game or a CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (and/or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world. |
| Sprites | A sprite is a bitmap graphic that is designed to be part of a larger scene. It can either be a static image or an animated graphic. |
| SDK | Stands for "Software Development Kit." An SDK is a collection of software used for developing applications for a specific device or operating system. Examples of SDKs include the Windows 7 SDK, the Mac OS X SDK, and the iPhone SDK |
| 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 | YoYo Games Ltd. is a software and game publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland. It is best known for developing the proprietary, game development IDE, GameMaker Studio for Windows |
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