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Emergent gameplay, the Glossary

Emergent gameplay refers to complex situations in video games, board games, or role-playing games that emerge from the interaction of relatively simple game mechanics.^[1]

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Alternate reality game

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

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Artificial intelligence in video games

In video games, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to generate responsive, adaptive or intelligent behaviors primarily in non-playable characters (NPCs) similar to human-like intelligence.

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Auction

An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.

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Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California.

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Board game

Board games are tabletop games that typically use.

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Capcom

is a Japanese video game company.

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Cellular automaton

A cellular automaton (pl. cellular automata, abbrev. CA) is a discrete model of computation studied in automata theory.

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Computer animation

Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation refers to moving images.

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Corrupted Blood incident

The Corrupted Blood incident (also known as the World of Warcraft pandemic) took place between September 13 and October 8, 2005, in World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Cosmic Encounter

Cosmic Encounter is a science fiction–themed strategy board game designed by "Future Pastimes" (collectively, Peter Olotka, Jack Kittredge and Bill Eberle, with Bill Norton) and originally published by Eon Games in 1977.

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Creatures (1996 video game)

Creatures is an artificial life simulation packaged as a video game developed by British studio Creature Labs for Windows, and was ported to Macintosh, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance.

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Deathmatch (video games)

Deathmatch, also known as free-for-all, is a gameplay mode integrated into many shooter games, including first-person shooter (FPS), and real-time strategy (RTS) video games, where the goal is to kill (or "frag") the other players' characters as many times as possible.

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Deus Ex (video game)

Deus Ex is a 2000 role-playing video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (commonly abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress (previously titled Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress) is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games.

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Emergence

In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.

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End-user license agreement

An end-user license agreement or EULA is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user.

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Entropia Universe

Entropia Universe is a massively multiplayer online (MMORPG) virtual universe designed by the Swedish software company MindArk, based in Gothenburg.

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Eve Online

Eve Online (stylised EVE Online) is a space-based, persistent world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by CCP Games.

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First-person shooter

A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game Genie

Game Genie is a line of video game cheat cartridges originally designed by Codemasters, sold by Camerica and Galoob.

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Game mechanics

In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them. Emergent gameplay and game mechanics are video game terminology.

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Glitch

A glitch is a short-lived technical fault, such as a transient one that corrects itself, making it difficult to troubleshoot.

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Hacker culture

The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy—often in collective effort—the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming the limitations of software systems or electronic hardware (mostly digital electronics), to achieve novel and clever outcomes.

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Halo 2

Halo 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox console.

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Id Software

id Software LLC is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas.

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Immersive sim

An immersive sim (simulation) is a video game genre that emphasizes player choice.

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Infinifactory

Infinifactory is a puzzle video game developed and published by Zachtronics, initially released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on June 30, 2015.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Joystick

A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.

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Kotaku

Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.

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Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead is a 2008 first-person shooter game developed by Valve South and published by Valve.

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Lionhead Studios

Lionhead Studios Limited was a British video game developer founded in July 1997 by Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley, Tim Rance, and Steve Jackson.

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Machinima

Machinima, originally machinema, is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production.

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A metagame is a game about a game, or an approach to playing a game.

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Metroid

is an action-adventure game franchise created by Nintendo.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios.

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Minigame

A minigame (also spelled mini game and mini-game, sometimes called a subgame or microgame) is a short game often contained within another video game. Emergent gameplay and minigame are video game terminology.

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NetHack

NetHack is an open source single-player roguelike video game, first released in 1987 and maintained by the NetHack DevTeam.

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Noclip

Noclip is a crowdfunded media company dedicated to creating video game documentaries and archiving video game media.

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Nonlinear gameplay

A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences. Emergent gameplay and nonlinear gameplay are video game terminology.

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Online game

An online game is a video game that is either partially or primarily played through the Internet or any other computer network available. Emergent gameplay and online game are video game terminology.

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Piton

A piton (also called pin or peg) in big wall climbing and in aid climbing is a metal spike (usually steel) that is driven into a crack or seam in the climbing surface using a climbing hammer, and which acts as an anchor for protecting the climber from falling or to assist progress in aid climbing.

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Programming language

A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.

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Project Gotham Racing

Project Gotham Racing (PGR) is a series of racing video games developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft Studios (Xbox and Xbox 360) and Sega (Dreamcast).

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Quake (video game)

Quake is a first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by GT Interactive.

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Racing game

Racing games are a video game genre in which the player participates in a racing competition.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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Rocket jumping

In shooter games, rocket jumping is the technique of using the knockback of an explosive weapon, most often a rocket launcher, to launch the shooter into the air.

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Roguelike

Roguelike (or rogue-like) is a style of role-playing game traditionally characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, grid-based movement, and permanent death of the player character.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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ROM hacking

ROM hacking (short for Read-only memory hacking) is the process of modifying a ROM image or ROM file of a video game to alter the game's graphics, dialogue, levels, gameplay, and/or other elements.

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Sage Publishing

Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.

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Sandbox game

A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that provides players a great degree of creativity to interact with, usually without any predetermined goal, or alternatively with a goal that the players set for themselves.

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Scribblenauts (video game)

Scribblenauts is an emergent puzzle action video game developed by 5th Cell and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the Nintendo DS.

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Second Life

Second Life is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online virtual world.

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Sequence breaking

In computer and video games, sequence breaking is the act of performing actions or obtaining items out of the intended linear order or of skipping "required" actions or items entirely.

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Space Station 13

Space Station 13, often shortened to SS13, is a top-down tile-based action role-playing multiplayer video game running on the freeware BYOND game engine, originally released in 2003.

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SpaceChem

SpaceChem is a puzzle and indie game by Zachtronics Industries, based on principles of automation and chemical bonding.

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Spawning (video games)

In video games, spawning is the live creation of a character, item or NPC. Emergent gameplay and spawning (video games) are video game terminology.

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Speedrunning

Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible. Emergent gameplay and Speedrunning are video game terminology.

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Starsiege: Tribes

Starsiege: Tribes is a first-person shooter video game.

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Strafing (video games)

Strafing in video games is a maneuver which involves moving a controlled character or entity sideways relative to the direction it is facing. Emergent gameplay and Strafing (video games) are video game terminology.

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Street Fighter II

is a 2D fighting game developed by Capcom and originally released for arcades in 1991.

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Super Mario 64

Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

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System Shock

System Shock is a 1994 first-person action-adventure video game developed by LookingGlass Technologies and published by Origin Systems.

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The Matrix Online

The Matrix Online (abbreviated as MxO) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) initially developed by Monolith Productions and later, a few months after launch, by Sony Online Entertainment.

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The Movies (video game)

The Movies is a business simulation game created by Lionhead Studios for Microsoft Windows and ported to Mac OS X by Feral Interactive.

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The Sims

The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts.

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A tool-assisted speedrun or tool-assisted superplay (TAS) is generally defined as a speedrun or playthrough composed of precise inputs recorded with tools such as video game emulators. Emergent gameplay and tool-assisted speedrun are video game terminology.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_gameplay

Also known as Emergence in games, Emergent game play, Emergent play, Systemic game.

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