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Gaming Terms
Term | Definition |
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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. |