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Alternate realities are worlds that exists next to, in parallel of, or in place of our own.
Games where characters have a cannon for an arm.
Glass that can be broken and destroyed in real-time.
Games featured in itch.io's unprecendentedly massive bundle with 100% of the proceeds going to the NAACP and bail funds for Black Lives Matter protesters.
Feline animals commonly kept as pets. There are many different breeds and varieties.
When you have a code number or a password to type to use a device, you have to type the code
A visual effect where color channels are deliberately misaligned.
Cyberpunk is an aesthetic choice that is employed in many different media, it focuses on technology and how that technology encroaches on our natural, daily lives.
Some games have included developers commentary. These comments can be in text form, audio that plays in the game or the menus, or video. Sometimes they are just added in the collectors editions.
The concept of purchasing media and having it delivered over the internet. No physical representation of this content is given, and although the content resides on the user's hard drive they are typically granted a license to the product, rather than ownership of it.
Receiving damage or dying as a result of falling.
In some first person games, the map is an object the players interact with in-game. Players press a button and the map comes up in front of the character's point of view.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in first-person shooters, racing games, and visual novels, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs, 3D platformers, and adventure games.
These faucets are functional.
A listing of games that have functional mirrors inside the game. An in-game mirror must display the character as they move in order to qualify.
Taking advantage of computers and machinery as weapons, in solving puzzles, etc. or otherwise changing up gameplay.
A page dedicated to the graphics engine that has powered games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Wolfenstein.
IGF is the Independent Games Festival, an annual gathering of Indie developers. The term also refers to the associated awards.
A fourth-wall breaking situation in which a character tells the player to press a specific button or a reference to a button is shown within the environment. This mostly happens during tutorials.
“Indie” or “independently developed” games are video games which are developed by a studio without the support of an external publisher.
The ability of a player to interact with items or geometry in the game world, whether for story or gameplay reasons or simply for immersion.
A digital distribution service built around indie works and their creators.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
When gravity's pull can not harm a player, no matter the distance.
Open source games are games that have had their source code officially released to the public, allowing anyone to modify, distribute, and create ports of the game.
The fourth annual PAX East took place March 22-24, 2013 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
The ninth annual PAX Prime took place between August 31-September 2, 2012 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington.
Depending on the country, a song enters public domain after a certain number of years after release or after the death of the writer. In the United States, it is 95 years after release.
Games that feature this concept require the player to wait for a certain amount of real time.
Games using this concept allow players to reset the situation back to what it was without dying and having to restart. It may be resetting a room, a puzzle, or an encounter, and it can be explained in game terms (a "reset spell" for instance), but it does not involve dying and/or "reloading a save".
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