Simultaneous action selection: History and Key Facts
Simultaneous action selection, or SAS, is a game mechanic that occurs when players of a game take action (such as moving their pieces) at the same time.
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Loading screen: History and Key Facts
A loading screen is a screen shown by a computer program, very often a video game, while the program is loading (moving program data from the disk to RAM) or initializing.
Procedural rhetoric: History and Key Facts
Procedural rhetoric or simulation rhetoric is a rhetorical concept that explains how people learn through the authorship of rules and processes.
Yellow paint in video games: History and Key Facts
In video game design, yellow paint (also the subject of the yellow paint debate or discourse) is the use of clearly visible markers in level design to hint to players where to go or what to do, s
Video Game Design: Chapters: Getting Started: An Open Learning Guide
Video games have many different forms, from old arcade games to small hand held devices, simple flash games you play online to the newest hit for one of the big names in the industry that ca
Free-to-play: History and Key Facts
Free-to-play (F2P or FtP) video games are games that give players access to a significant portion of their content for free.
Buy-to-play: History and Key Facts
Buy-to-play (B2P) is a revenue model for video games where a game can be played after a one-time purchase, as opposed to a subscription model where the player must pay a subscription at regular i
Scrolling: History and Key Facts
In computer displays, filmmaking, television production, video games and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display, vertically or horizontally
Video game art design: History and Key Facts
Video game art design is a subset of game development involving the process of creating the artistic aspects of video games.
Bushnell's Law: History and Key Facts
Bushnell's Law or Nolan's Law is an aphorism often attributed to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, on the subject of video game design: All the best games are easy to learn and difficult to master.
Lusory attitude: History and Key Facts
Lusory attitude is the psychological attitude required of a player entering into the play of a game.
Cutscene: History and Key Facts
A cutscene or event scene (sometimes in-game cinematic or in-game movie) is a sequence in a video game that is not interactive, interrupting the gameplay.
Skybox (video games): History and Key Facts
A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make a video game level appear larger than it really is.
Loot box: History and Key Facts
In video games, a loot box (also called a loot crate or prize crate) is a consumable virtual item which can be redeemed to receive a randomised selection of further virtual items, or loot, rangin
Game design document: History and Key Facts
A game design document (GDD) is a highly descriptive living software design document of the design for a video game.
Game mechanics: History and Key Facts
In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics define how a game works for players.
Video Game Design: Theory: An Open Learning Guide
In this chapter we will go over some theories of game design which are not officially recognized but are reasonable and can be proven. If these theories are correct then it will make designi
Video Game Design: Chapters: Implementation: An Open Learning Guide
Before you consider implementing your design one thing that you should ponder as you consider implementation is how costly it will be, in time and money. You can monetize you game design (co
Lag (video games): History and Key Facts
In computers, lag is delay (latency) between the action of the user (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which has to be sent back to the client.
Video game art: History and Key Facts
Video game art is a form of computer art that uses video games as an artistic medium.
Video Game Design: Process: An Open Learning Guide
Before you consider implementing your design one thing that you should ponder as you consider implementation is how costly it will be, in time and money. You can monetize you game design (co
Game feel: History and Key Facts
Game feel is the intangible, tactile sensation experienced when interacting with video games.
Video Game Design: Programming: An Open Learning Guide
Programming is the way you put your concept in practice, how you build your game. There are a wide variety of programming languages. These languages will be covered in more detail later on.
Side-scrolling video game: History and Key Facts
A side-scrolling video game (alternatively side-scroller) is a video game viewed from a side-view camera angle where the screen follows the player as they move left or right.
Video Game Design: Introduction: Rat race: An Open Learning Guide
In today's world no one does large commercial level games just for fun any more, especially in the PC architecture (or at least we rarely learn more about those crazy people after the beta s
Video game music: History and Key Facts
Video game music (VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games.
Video Game Design: Game content: An Open Learning Guide
The importance of having a good portfolio of conceptual art in the early steps of game implementation is extremely important not only to permit a richer visualization of the concept but to c
Sprite (computer graphics): History and Key Facts
In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game.
Affinity space: History and Key Facts
An affinity space is a place where learning happens.
Nonlinear gameplay: History and Key Facts
A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences.
Toys-to-life: History and Key Facts
Toys-to-life is a video game feature using physical figurines or action figures to interact within the game.
Video Game Design: Components: An Open Learning Guide
Game creators are by definition artists since they produce creative works. To say games have no utilitarian use is a misconception of the art. Video games go above art and have a particulari
Video Game Design: Programming: Selecting the Hardware: An Open Learning Guide
To develop a game you may need not only qualified personal is special tasks, like graphics designers but you will have also to consider the software for editors (for creating things such as
Video Game Design: Programming: Reality Simulation: An Open Learning Guide
Having the game include small, even if repetitive details will provide a richer experience, be it a gush of wind, a dust mote, flies over a trashcan, a leaf floating in the wind can be as po
Video Game Design: Structure: An Open Learning Guide
Though there are many different types of video games, there are a few properties that are constants: Every game requires at least one player, every game gives the player at least one challen
Video Game Design: Programming: Framework: 2D vs 3D: 3D Engine: An Open Learning Guide
If the game requires a 3D environment, it signifies that it will use a 3D view that is characterized by the use of polygon based graphics. Polygons are flat shapes and in a low count (low re
Video game design: History and Key Facts
Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production
Video Game Design: Distribution: An Open Learning Guide
With the advent of full digital distribution, allied to the pay-to-play meme born in the WEB and extended into a art form in Massively multi-player on-line games, the concepts fast overtook
Cooperative video game: History and Key Facts
A cooperative video game, often abbreviated as co-op video game, is a video game that allows players to work together as teammates, usually against one or more non-player character opponents (PvE
Video Game Design: Chapters: Theory: An Open Learning Guide
Game creators are by definition artists since they produce creative works. To say games have no utilitarian use is a misconception of the art. Video games go above art and have a particulari
Video Game Design: Programming: Framework: Procedural Content Generation: An Open Learning Guide
The concept is defined as the process of procedurally generating any type of 2D/3D geometry, textures, scripts or sound, even using a randomization seed. To date this technique is primarily
Video Game Design: Programming: Framework: AI: An Open Learning Guide
Artificial intelligence is what make your game world come alive and gives your in-game creatures a mind of their own. AI also allows the difficulty of the game to change either by having a u
CG artist: History and Key Facts
CG artists (also known as computer graphics artists) create 2D and 3D art, usually for cinema, advertising or animation movies.
Console (computer games): History and Key Facts
A console is a command line interface where the personal computer game's settings and variables can be edited while the game is running.
Video Game Design: Programming: Framework: 2D vs 3D: An Open Learning Guide
Graphics is the common name for the visual presentation of the game environment and its components. Creating the visual environment begins generally with the concept artist, that in accordan
Parallax scrolling: History and Key Facts
Parallax scrolling is a technique in computer graphics where background images move past the camera more slowly than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene of distance.
Vertically scrolling video game: History and Key Facts
A vertically scrolling video game or vertical scroller is a video game in which the player views the field of play principally from a top-down perspective, while the background scrolls from the t
Technology tree: History and Key Facts
In strategy games, a technology, tech, or research tree is a hierarchical visual representation of the possible sequences of upgrades a player can unlock (most typically representing the research