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Machinarium, the Glossary

Machinarium is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design.^[1]

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is a non-profit organization of video game industry professionals.

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Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinuedexcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.

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Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.

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Adventure Gamers

Adventure Gamers is a computer game website created by Marek Bronstring in March 1999 dedicated to the genre of adventure games.

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Amanita Design

Amanita Design is a Czech independent video game developing company founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorský and headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Antagonist

An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.

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App Store (Apple)

The App Store is an app marketplace developed and maintained by Apple, for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems.

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An art game (or arthouse game) is a work of interactive new media digital software art as well as a member of the "art game" subgenre of the serious video game. Machinarium and art game are art games.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Backstory

A backstory, background story, or background is a set of events invented for a plot, preceding and leading up to that plot.

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BlackBerry PlayBook

The BlackBerry PlayBook is a mini tablet computer that was developed by BlackBerry.

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Botanicula

Botanicula is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. Machinarium and Botanicula are Amanita Design games, art games, Flash games, independent Games Festival winners, IndieCade winners, point-and-click adventure games and video games developed in the Czech Republic.

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Brain teaser

A brain teaser is a form of puzzle that requires thought to solve.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.

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D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction

The D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction is an award presented annually by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences during the D.I.C.E. Awards.

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Daedalic Entertainment

Daedalic Entertainment GmbH is a German video game publisher and former developer based in Hamburg.

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Desura

Desura was a digital distribution platform for the Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X platforms.

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Dialogue

Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange.

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Direct2Drive

Direct2Drive (commonly D2D) is an online game store offering PC games via direct download.

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DirectX

Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

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An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another — usually electronic — medium.

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Empire: Total War

Empire: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics video game developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. Machinarium and Empire: Total War are 2009 video games.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Floex

Tomáš Dvořák, known professionally as Floex, is a contemporary Czech composer, clarinetist, producer, DJ, and multimedia artist.

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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 engine

A game engine is a software framework primarily designed for the development of video games and generally includes relevant libraries and support programs such as a level editor.

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GameRankings

GameRankings was a video gaming review aggregator that was founded in 1999 and owned by CBS Interactive.

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GamersGate

GamersGate AB (formerly Gamer's Gate) is a Sweden-based online video game store offering electronic strategy guides and games for Windows, macOS, and Linux via direct download.

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Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American internet media company and blog network.

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Gobliiins

Gobliiins is a puzzle adventure video game series, consisting of five entries, released by Coktel Vision (and later Sierra On-Line) for the Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Macintosh, iOS and Windows platforms. Machinarium and Gobliiins are point-and-click adventure games.

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GOG.com

GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games) is a digital distribution platform for video games and films.

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HP TouchPad

The HP TouchPad is a tablet computer that was developed and designed by Hewlett-Packard.

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Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle, Inc. is a digital storefront for video games, which grew out of its original offering of Humble Bundles, collections of games sold at a price determined by the purchaser and with a portion of the price going towards charity and the rest split between the game developers.

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Ilomilo

ilomilo is a puzzle video game developed by Southend Interactive and Microsoft Game Studios.

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Impulse (software)

Impulse was a digital distribution and multiplayer platform.

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Independent Games Festival

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the largest annual gathering of the independent video game industry.

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Indie game

An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games.

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IndieCade

IndieCade is an international juried festival of independent games.

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IPad (1st generation)

The first-generation iPad (retrospectively referred to unofficially as the iPad 1 or original iPad) is a tablet computer designed and marketed by Apple Inc. as the first device in the iPad lineup of tablet computers.

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IPad 2

The iPad 2 is a tablet designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Compared to the first iPad, as the second model in the iPad line, it gained a faster dual core A5 processor, a lighter build structure with a flat, rather than curved, back, and was the first iPad to feature VGA front-facing and 720p rear-facing cameras designed for FaceTime video calling.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.

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Jakub Dvorský

Jakub Dvorský (born August 19, 1978) is a designer and video game creator from Brno, Czech Republic.

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Josef Čapek

Josef Čapek (23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet.

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Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist.

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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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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Mac App Store

The Mac App Store (also known as the App Store) is a digital distribution platform for macOS apps, often referred to as Mac apps, created and maintained by Apple Inc. The platform was announced on October 20, 2010, at Apple's "Back to the Mac" event.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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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.

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Mod DB

Mod DB is a website that focuses on general video game modding.

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Nintendo Switch

The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Overworld

An overworld or a hub world is, in a broad sense, an area within a video game that interconnects all its levels or locations.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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PlayStation 4

The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation Network

PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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PlayStation Vita

The PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) is a handheld game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Pun

A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Puzzle

A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge.

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Puzzle video game

Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving.

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Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

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Rock Paper Shotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun is a British video game journalism website.

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Runner2

Bit.Trip Presents... Machinarium and Runner2 are PlayStation Vita games.

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Samorost 2

Samorost 2 is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. Machinarium and Samorost 2 are Amanita Design games, art games, Flash games, independent Games Festival winners, point-and-click adventure games and video games developed in the Czech Republic.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Speech balloon

Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons, or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comic books, comics, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing a character's speech or thoughts.

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Steam (service)

Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve.

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Strategy guide

Strategy guides are instruction books that contain hints or complete solutions to specific video games.

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Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy is a 2010 platform game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes under the collective name of "Team Meat". Machinarium and Super Meat Boy are Cancelled Wii games and PlayStation Vita games.

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Tom's Hardware

Tom's Hardware is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology.

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Torchlight

Torchlight is an action role-playing hack and slash dungeon crawler video game developed by Runic Games and published by Perfect World Entertainment. Machinarium and Torchlight are 2009 video games.

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TouchArcade

TouchArcade (stylized as toucharcade) is a mobile games journalism website.

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Turkish language

Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.

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Video games in the Czech Republic

The video game industry in the Czech Republic has produced numerous globally successful video games such as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and the subsequent ArmA series, the Mafia series, Truck Simulator series, the Kingdom Come: Deliverance series, the Samorost series and others.

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Wii

The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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WiiWare

WiiWare was a service that allowed Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo.

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Windows Phone

Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune.

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Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system from Microsoft.

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Wrecking yard

A wrecking yard (Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard (Irish, British and New Zealand English) or junkyard (American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal-recycling companies.

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References

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

Also known as Machinarium (Soundtrack), Machinarium Soundtrack.

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See also

Amanita Design games

BlackBerry PlayBook games

Cancelled Wii games

IndieCade winners

References