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Advisors are experts (in their respective fields) whose job is to offer advice regarding everything from city planning to world domination.
The concept of building a single city and its respective houses/institutions (e.g. Sim City) or building cities as part of an extending empire (e.g. Civilization).
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
If not certain demands or conditions are met, demanding workers/citizens may revolt, demonstrate, switch sides, saboteur or stop working altogether. Does mostly occur in real-time strategy games and business simulators.
Games that include a simulated economy which the player(s) can affect.
A fictional currency is one where the object being exchanged does not exist in the real world, such as Final Fantasy's Gil, or are not used for exchange in the real world, such as Fallout's bottlecaps.
A digital distribution platform that focuses on providing DRM-free computer games, both old and new.
Used in many games such as Sim City and Black & White to make sweeping changes to the environment or to move massive objects.
A parallel projection technique used in 2D sprite-based games to fake the appearance of 3D depth.
Never Ending Games is a self-explanatory concept in which a game is unbeatable and never ends, due either to the game having no true ending or because the game is not saved (or truly continued) after the last section of the game.
A public declaration of disapproval, often an excuse for dissidents to cause riots and damage public property.
A system of transportation, readily available to the general public.
Radiation is energy in the form of waves or moving subatomic particles emitted by an atom or other body. Radiation in videogames is typically represented as a field, inside of which units will take damage.
The titular people in EA/Maxis's universe of Sim games. They serve as the citizens in SimCity, and star in the Sims series.
Traffic consists a bunch of cars, pedestrians and other vehicles using a common transport route.
a wonder is a unique building of great cultural or strategic advantage.
World Building games focus on the ability of the player to created his own little world just as he wants it. Good examples, are The Sims, Black and White, and Spore.
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