Unprofessional Fridays 05/10/24
Unprofessional Fridays
839: REVENGEANCE
Giant Bombcast
Game Mess Mornings 05/10/24
GrubbSnax
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.11
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.04
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.27
Concept »
Most games based on this mythology adapts the One Thousand and One Nights tale.
Platforms that are manipulated by weight. Too much weight on one side can drastically alter the equilibrium. *Not to be confused with Unstable Platforms*
A bar that travels across the screen in time with music. It affects different objects in different ways depending on the game.
A concept found in many puzzle and casual games. Matching blocks of the same color or type to gain points and/or erase the blocks.
The concept of moving blocks around to certain areas such as highlighted squares, or switches, or in order to get past a maze.
A gameplay objective in which a player, often working with physics and resource restrictions, attempts to successfully build a working bridge.
Some are used to help solve them
A location that prevents the player from progressing, unless they follow a specific path or perform certain actions.
A puzzle where you have to use your surroundings, i.e. "environment" in order to progress.
Falling blocks appear in many games.
A specific puzzle type that has players inserting gears to complete a mechanism.
The ground pound is a move where a person in midair somehow makes themselves strike the ground with more force than if they had merely landed. Popularly known as the "butt stomp" due to Super Mario 64's variant, which appeared as though Mario was attacking foes with his rear end.
A six sided geometrical shape sometimes used in strategy, puzzle, and board games.
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.
Puzzles where light beams must be manipulated in certain ways, usually with a series of mirrors. Popular in action-adventure games.
Games about, or with math in them.
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
A central concept in the Zero Escape series, the Nonary Game is a deadly competition that revolves around the use of the number 9.
A type of puzzle based around filling in a numbered grid.
Point and click is an interface featured in a specific kind of adventure game, where players click on objects and characters to interact with them.
A portal is a hole in reality connected to another hole in reality, whether magical or scientific in nature, that allows a person to instantly travel incredibly vast distances simply by walking through one.
When you're able to push a block you know it's a videogame. Usually used to solve puzzles.
Puzzle games that also feature some kind of narrative.
A puzzle in which a series of chain reactions are triggered in order to achieve a simple goal.
A story-telling technique whereby additional story information is written in a fictional alphabet or language that can be deciphered by following in-game clues.
Sudoku is a number puzzle popularized in Japan in 1984, and later worldwide, although its origins stem from similar puzzles in France and the US.
Popularized by franchises such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill, these games typically involve a strong implication of danger, vulnerable protagonists, and disturbing monsters.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
A game mechanic that lets players pause and rewind the action in order to correct a mistake or change a path.
A classic 19th century puzzle that has made its way into video games, including several Bioware titles and Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment
Log in to comment