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The llama is an animal found primarily in South America. Llamas are social creatures and are considered pack animals.
The head of a city government. The perfect candidate if your game needs a rear end in a top hat.
Micromanagement is the act of increasing the efficiency and longevity of units during a battle, or managing equipment, statistics and abilities on an obsessive level.
A type of primate with tails; often monkeys are depicted as causing havoc the moment they are encountered.
PC games that support the use of two or more monitors.
An act of Mother Nature that brings hardship on humanity and the world.
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.
Nintendo's online service. It supported the Wii and Nintendo DS.
Non-linear level design where the player is able to freely traverse the game world and choose where and when to visit certain areas in the game.
A digital distribution platform owned and operated by EA.
Game bundled with gaming hardware (usually a console) in order to boost sales. Most often these games are first party titles, meaning that the hardware and software are products of the same company.
Pandas are black and white bears that live mainly in China and zoos. It is an endangered species.
Pigs are pink, oinking mammals with a button nose and curly tail. They are rumored to eat a lot and be dirty. They don't fly, but they do bring home the bacon.
Games that could be controlled via the PS1 mouse.
Police are paid protectors who enforce the law through legal use of force. They are supposed to help ensure public safety and social order. Their motto is to protect and to serve.
The police chase consists of the police chasing someone; usually by car. Sometimes the player plays as the guy getting chased and sometimes as the police.
A public testing period is, or has been, offered for the general public prior to sale or general availability. Access is generally granted through giveaways, preorders, or crowd-funding rewards.
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.
Randnet is an online service that ran for the Nintendo 64DD much like the satelleview. The service ran from December 1999 to February 2001.
RMT's are the concept of spending real money, for items within a game, common to the free to play market
Games that feature this concept require the player to wait for a certain amount of real time.
How non-playable characters or factions perceive the player character based on their actions or choices in the game world.
A joke phrase that was originally coined by Will Wright for a loading screen in SimCity 2000.
When many disgruntled people choose to go haywire on the system. Usually involves torches and pitchforks.
Roads which are under construction.
Games that have an open gameplay structure that allow players to interact with the world as they choose.
Games that have seasons have their environment change depending on the time of the year.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
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