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Game » consists of 0 releases. Released Aug 09, 2011
Winged, usually flying creatures, many of which enjoy perching on branches and defecating on unfortunate victims below.
Character Creation refers to characters created by players themselves, rather than developers.
The act of preparing food by applying heat, often cooking in games produces items which yield some kind of benefit towards your character.
If a cow and a plant had a baby. Its milk supposedly increases your lifespan. Is this where soy burgers come from?
Cows are four-legged ruminant mammals, bred for milk, meat, or leather.
Crafting allows players to create their own items with the correct ingredients. It is used mainly in MMOs and RPGs.
The 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 7-9.
Games that can link up to Facebook for additional features.
Heroes can only fight for so long. If they don't get rest or are able to recuperate, their performance will suffer (and so might they).
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 frog is a small and usually green amphibian that can swim, hop, and ribbit. Sadly, most of them aren't princes.
Toilets that can be used in-game. Neat, but easily abused, which seriously impacts virtual water conservation.
The maintenance of a garden and the cultivation of plants.
Picking the gender of your character can help immerse you in the game world. Sometimes this leads to different abilities in-game, sometimes it means nothing at all.
Genies, which originated from Arabia, are supernatural creatures that are magical and many can grant wishes. Some have a lamp or bottle and the owner of said item has power over them, including forcing them back into it and making them stay there.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
This tag is for all games and characters that deal in the concept of gods, demigods, half-gods and the like.
Some video games utilize a system that has the player occasionally consuming food items to keep their hunger under control. Ignoring it can result in decreased stamina, or in some cases, death of the player's character and a "Game Over" screen.
The 2012 Interactive Achievement Awards celebrate the best games of 2011.
The ability for players to customize the look of indoor locations with various furnishings.
The process by which characters reach a new level, gain greater attributes, and learn more abilities. It usually involves earning enough experience points by completing a variety of tasks such as quests or by "farming" such as killing other characters for their experience points.
An umbrella term for any sexual orientation or gender identity that is not straight.
The single most important thing in the world, love is a powerful story telling element that can connect characters or drive a story. There are many video game characters who have fallen in love with someone or something.
A species of insect that is in some way associated the with love.
Marriage is when characters, typically a pair of them, are joined in loving (or not so loving) matrimony!
Small payments made with actual money which result in an in-game bonus, such as an extra item, character, etc...
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.
Games which allow players to interact with others over the internet.
The act of changing a section of a graphic to a low resolution (i.e. enlarging the pixels) in order to "blur" it. Commonly used to censor an image.
In some games, total immersion is helped along by allowing players to purchase and customize their own housing.
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