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Action game
The action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time.
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Anarchy Online
Anarchy Online is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) published and developed by Norwegian video game development company Funcom.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.
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Artificial intelligence in video games
In video games, artificial intelligence is used to generate responsive, adaptive or intelligent behaviors primarily in non-player characters (NPCs), similar to human-like intelligence.
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Biofeedback
Biofeedback is the process of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions primarily using instruments that provide information on the activity of those same systems, with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will.
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Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and is a subsidiary of the American company Activision Blizzard.
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Bungie
Bungie, Inc. is an American video game developer located in Bellevue, Washington, United States.
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Capture the flag
Capture the flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor game where two teams each have a flag (or other marker) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base," and bring it safely back to their own base.
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Castlevania (1999 video game)
Castlevania (also referred to as Castlevania 64) is a 1999 action-adventure video game developed by Konami's Kobe branch for the Nintendo 64 video game console.
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Chess
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.
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Chris Crawford (game designer)
Christopher Crawford (born June 1, 1950) is a computer game designer and writer.
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Civilization (video game)
Sid Meier's Civilization is the first in a series of turn-based "4X"-type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.
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Computer Gaming World
Computer Gaming World (CGW) was an American computer game magazine published between 1981 and 2006.
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Danielle Bunten Berry
Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), born Daniel Paul Bunten, and also known as Dan Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. (one of the first influential multiplayer games), and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold.
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Designing Virtual Worlds
Designing Virtual Worlds is a book about the practice of virtual world development by Richard Bartle.
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Dramatic structure
Dramatic structure is the structure of a dramatic work such as a play or film.
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Dynamic game difficulty balancing
Dynamic game difficulty balancing, also known as dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA) or dynamic game balancing (DGB), is the process of automatically changing parameters, scenarios, and behaviors in a video game in real-time, based on the player's ability, in order to avoid making the player bored (if the game is too easy) or frustrated (if it is too hard).
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Engine displacement
Engine displacement is the swept volume of all the pistons inside the cylinders of a reciprocating engine in a single movement from top dead centre (TDC) to bottom dead centre (BDC).
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Experience point
An experience point (often abbreviated to exp or XP) is a unit of measurement used in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs) and role-playing video games to quantify a player character's progression through the game.
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Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is a science fiction and fantasy media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square).
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First-move advantage in chess
The first-move advantage in chess is the inherent advantage of the player (White) who makes the first move in chess.
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Football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal.
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Gamasutra
Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.
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Game balance
In game design, balance is the concept and the practice of tuning a game's rules, usually with the goal of preventing any of its component systems from being ineffective or otherwise undesirable when compared to their peers.
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Game design
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes.
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Game Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the largest annual gathering of professional video game developers, focusing on learning, inspiration, and networking.
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Game mechanics
Game mechanics are constructs of rules or methods designed for interaction with the game state, thus providing gameplay.
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Gamemaster
A gamemaster (GM; also known as game master, game manager, game moderator or referee) is a person who acts as an organizer, officiant for questions regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a multiplayer role-playing game.
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Halo (franchise)
Halo is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios.
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IGN
IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.
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Klondike (solitaire)
Klondike is a patience game (solitaire card game).
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Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead is a cooperative first-person shooter video game, developed by Valve South and published by Valve Corporation.
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Left 4 Dead 2
Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.
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Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering is a both a trading card and digital collectible card game created by Richard Garfield.
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Mario Kart
is a series of go-kart-style racing video games developed and published by Nintendo as spin-offs from its trademark Super Mario series.
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Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are a combination of role-playing video games and massively multiplayer online games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual world.
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Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne is a third-person shooter video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Rockstar Games.
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Michigan State University College of Law
The Michigan State University College of Law is a private law school located in East Lansing, Michigan which is affiliated with Michigan State University.
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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869.
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Nerf
Nerf (trademarked in capitals as NERF) is a toy brand created by Parker Brothers and currently owned by Hasbro.
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Non-player character
A non-player character (NPC) in a game is any character that is not controlled by a player.
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Pac-Man
, stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man in May 1980.
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Patch (computing)
A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it.
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Pawn (chess)
The pawn (♙,♟) is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest.
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Player versus environment
Player versus environment, or PvE (also known as player versus monster, or PvM in some communities), is a term used in online games, particularly MMORPGs, CORPGs, MUDs, and other online role-playing video games, to refer to fighting computer-controlled enemies—in contrast to PvP (player versus player).
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Pong
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games.
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Real-time strategy
Real-time strategy (RTS) is a subgenre of strategy video games where the game does not progress incrementally in turns.
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Recurring elements in the Final Fantasy series
Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square).
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares.
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Sid Meier
Sidney K. Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian-American programmer, designer, and producer of several strategy video games and simulation video games, including the Civilization series.
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Slang
Slang is language (words, phrases, and usages) of an informal register that members of special groups like teenagers, musicians, or criminals favor (over a standard language) in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
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Sonic Generations
Sonic Generations is a 2011 platform video game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, and Microsoft Windows.
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Statistic (role-playing games)
A statistic (or stat) in role-playing games is a piece of data that represents a particular aspect of a fictional character.
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Stephen Curry
Wardell Stephen Curry II (born March 14, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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Strange Adventures in Infinite Space
Strange Adventures In Infinite Space is a roguelike-like video game set in space.
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Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine.
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Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy is a 2007 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii.
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Tempest (video game)
Tempest is a 1981 arcade game by Atari Inc., designed and programmed by Dave Theurer.
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The Escapist (magazine)
The Escapist (typeset as the escapist) is an online magazine covering mostly video games as well as movies, comics, TV, and more.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Tie (draw)
A draw or tie occurs in a competitive sport when the results are identical or inconclusive.
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Ultima Online
Ultima Online (UO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), released on September 24, 1997, by Origin Systems.
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Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation is an American video game developer and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.
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Virtual economy
A virtual economy (or sometimes synthetic economy) is an emergent economy existing in a virtual world, usually exchanging virtual goods in the context of an Internet game.
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Wizard's Quest
Wizard's Quest is a 1979 board wargame published by Avalon Hill.
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World Bank Group
The World Bank Group (WBG) (Groupe de la Banque mondiale) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_balance
