Glossary of video game terms
This glossary of video game terms lists the general video game industry terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles.
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The gameplay available in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for characters that have completed their level progression
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A mode is a distinct configuration that varies gameplay and affects how other game mechanics behave, such as a single player mode vs a multiplayer mode.
A feature included in time attack or time trial modes in video games allowing the player to review their previous rounds. In racing games, for example, a "ghost car" may follow the last or fastest path a player took around the track. In fighting games, the ghost is an opponent that the computer AI player can train against outside of normal player versus player or story mode.
Ghost cars in racing games generally appear as translucent or flashing versions of the player's vehicle. Based on previously recorded lap times, they serve only to represent the fastest lap time and do not interact dynamically with other competitors. A skilled player will use the ghost to improve his time, matching the ghost's racing line as it travels the course. Many racing games, including Gran Turismo, F-Zero, and Mario Kart, offer a ghost function. Some also show ghosts set by staff members and developers, often showing perfect routes and lap times. A variation of the feature, dubbed by Firemonkeys Studios as "Time-Shifted Multiplayer", was implemented in the mobile racing game Real Racing 3. It works by recording the lap times of people in each race, and using statistics from other players for the game's artificial intelligence to recreate their lap times for the player to beat. The ghost cars can collide with the player and other vehicles, and are fully visible to the player.
Kill Screen
Kill Screen is a video games arts and culture company. It produces an eponymous video games magazine and website, and organises events such as the annual two5six games culture conference.
Overview
Kill Screen is a print and online magazine that specializes in literary video games journalism. The magazine originally planned to publish think pieces rather than breaking news. In 2011, the website published short news pieces, reviews, and interviews.PSFK described the magazine's demographic as "25–34-year-old wealthy, urban, culturally elite males".
History
The magazine was founded by Jamin Brophy-Warren and Chris Dahlen, who both wrote for Pitchfork. In a discussion at the March 2009 Game Developers Conference, the two discussed the lack of "high-end, intellectual" magazines about video games and non-blog writers in the style of Tom Wolfe and Chuck Klosterman. Brophy-Warren and Dahlen decided to start Kill Screen. They sought for the magazine to mirror what Rolling Stone and Wired established in their respective industries. Anthony Smyrski of Swindle served as the magazine's creative director. The magazine's authors had previously written for The New Yorker, GQ, Los Angeles Times, The Onion, and The Daily Show. The magazine was originally crowdfunded through Kickstarter in late 2009. The magazine's name is based on the arcade kill screen, the final level of certain arcade games that deteriorates into randomized letters because of a programming error.
Podcasts:
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by Jean Grae
Kill Screen
by: Jean GraeThis is rebel shit
Mojave rock
Got polyglots, who'll molly whop you til yo body pop
I'm never sick, when my temperature drop, it's 7 up
105.6 hell, praise the rock
I ain't a savior, just your neighbor like amazing Peter
Minus the spider bite, the webs, the aunt and uncle neither
But save the reasoning, the need to tuck the dynamite
To even up the nonbelievers
Man humble season was cool, sure
But now I'm seeing North Shore faces, are y'all sure
Well turn around and walk four paces
I'll walk forth five, y'all 86'ed in all cases
I'm the figure 8 sideways, always, ageless
Y'all in the club aimless, blind, spades shit
My time and space mix, record a rhyme on spaceships
You way behind like you caught a ride on a slave ship
I'm the modern anomaly, brazen Amelie, faceless
Representing the basement, raised up, cage less
Limitless, reminiscent of rapists
Boundaries?
Got none, rock, paper, shotgun
Achtung, baby not an A.D.D 80's baby I'm not from
Rated G catering eras, I was the type of New Yorker
Rhyming at night in the park and hiding a knife in hair and
Even though mama was careful, I would be fighting so often
Finding the light in dark, was time and just life in the mirror
Reflection infinite, Escher
In the end
We r who we r uhhh… Ke$ha
Late night dive bar, sipping on a vesper
I'm bond and the villain in one time bomb, test her
Dressed mismatch like confederate soldiers
Told ya best to think fast, this level is over
I'm going for the kill screen, fistful of quarters
Billy Mitchell, I'm a fiend, jumping barrels, famous sauces
Was a preteen prodigy, a plethora of knowledge, I don't mean like Albert
Johnson
I mean Jean was on to college
I'll never respect a comment from a novice
I'll never be just a common denominator, promise
I was nominated flyest so you'll see I'll take us higher, the defiant one
The phoenix from the fire, hell mouth leviathan
I only get killed at the end of time
So I'm buying some
This is heavy metal
Ryerson
Or Reitman & Mogel '81 either is right man
My life spans eternal ever since I touched the mic stand
Put the mic in my right hand, left hook, goodnight man
Rest good, hype man, jeannie take it easy like bikinis on some white sand
is on me
I'm calm b, sipping on a zombie, Condé, Nast, no bath salts spilling
in my flask
I'm appealing to your class, laugh now get shot later with sedatives
I'll medicate to torture you some more so aww, you better live
Edifice I'm living in a world full of oedipus
It's all relative, melanin, nepotism
Tell the kids, hell is in, check the prisons
I wanna teach particle physics business, just as a better business class,
syllabus rise up
You wanna get your philistine thighs up
My abilities high as fuck
You still willing to try luck
I wish I had guillotine garage doors
Mass carnage, barnyard parties, animals, carnivores
Trash, garbage, Skarsgaard hotties, mandibles, parting jaws