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A level that takes place either in or near water.
Whether it has voice over or not, text bubbles are a way of reading the dialog that a character on screen is saying and or thinking.
Avatar Awards are items or clothing that are unlocked for Xbox Live avatars by completing certain tasks within the game.
Par times are provided as incentive to complete levels faster. Par times are typically achievable without any advanced techniques such as rocket jumping or animation canceling.
Frozen water. Ice can be slippery and it can be fun for ice skating.
Shaman are mediums between the mortal and spiritual realms. In games, they are often priests with the ability to heal via magic and crafted potions.
A Multi-Phase Boss is a boss that undergoes a significant and instantaneous change in abilities, attack speed, and/or attack pattern during the fight. These bosses do not fully regain health between forms and appearance changes are usually minimal, if at all.
A game has "faux credits" when the credits start rolling, making the player think the game is over but then suddenly get interrupted to continue the game.
With the internet in full swing, some games reflect its leak into popular culture by making references to the World Wide Web.
A small, immobile marine animal found on the sea floor.
A cloud of fine particles.
Frequently seen in RPGs and Fighting games, The EHI helps players calculate the current health of opponents.
When you try to quit a game, the game will pop up with a message or picture to try and make you play some more.
A common fighting game mechanic that allows you to link normal attacks into a combo. Also known as a Dial-A-Combo.
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A professional and amateur sport, played world-wide, in which two teams advance a ball up and down a court in order to score "field goals," by throwing the ball through a basket or hoop. The team with the highest score at the end of timed play wins.
Sports that are played outside of their traditional playing fields, and often in an exaggerated manner.
Dwarves are a short, stout race that appear in any number of fantasy games and stories. They are almost always depicted as short with bushy beards similar to vikings. They can also be identified by their love for ale and gold. Other common trends for Fantasy Dwarves include being proud warriors, favoring axes as their weapon of choice, and being gruff sticklers for tradition and honor.
The ability to create, shape, and control fire at will. This is a common and well known power in fiction, its appearance dating back to ancient literature.
Game titles that are three words long, and have a conjunction or a preposition. These games usually take the form of "X of Y" or "X & Y".
Currency has all forms in video games. It is used to buy characters, vehicles, weapons, and more.
A commonly used programming API for interactive sound creation and playback in games.
Gameplay type emphasizing deliberately paced tactical battle where each side politely takes turns moving and attacking one another through varied forms of combat.
One of the world's oldest board games, using eight pawns, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, a queen and king.
Tennis is a sport that involves making a ball hit your opponent's side of the court by hitting it with a racket.
A sport focused on throwing the ball in the opponents.
A sport often played on the beach that involves players hitting a ball over a net to land it on the opponent's zone.
Vertical scrolling is when the screen scrolls along the y-axis. In a vertical scrolling game the player usually starts from the bottom of the screen and moves up. They are also almost always presented in a top-down perspective.
Cartoon characters are personas from cartoons, which are animated moving sequences that are usually drawn but can be computer animated and can come from television, movies, anime or even the web. They can be humans, animals, or even things usually not thought of as living.
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