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Walking simulator, the Glossary

A walking simulator, shortened walking sim, is an adventure game that consists primarily of movement and environmental interaction.^[1]

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AAA (video game industry)

In the video game industry, AAA (Triple-A) is a buzzword used to classify video games produced or distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games.

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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. Walking simulator and adventure game are video game genres.

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Art game

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. Walking simulator and art game are video game genres.

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a 2018 action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Quebec and published by Ubisoft.

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Assassin's Creed Origins

Assassin's Creed Origins is a 2017 action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.

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Bennett Foddy

Bennett Foddy is an Australian video game designer based in New York.

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British Academy Games Awards

The BAFTA Games Awards or British Academy Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honouring "outstanding creative achievement" in the video game industry.

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Dear Esther

Dear Esther is a 2012 adventure game developed and published by The Chinese Room. Walking simulator and Dear Esther are Walking simulators.

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Death Stranding

Death Stranding is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4.

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Earth analog

An Earth analog, also called an Earth analogue, Earth twin, or second Earth, is a planet or moon with environmental conditions similar to those found on Earth.

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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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Failure

Failure is the social concept of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and is usually viewed as the opposite of success.

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Fast travel

Fast travel or teleportation is a video game mechanic used in open world games that allows a player character to instantaneously travel between previously discovered locations (teleport waypoints or fast-travel points) without having to traverse that distance in real time.

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Firewatch

Firewatch is an adventure game developed by Campo Santo and published by the developer in partnership with Panic. Walking simulator and Firewatch are Walking simulators.

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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. Walking simulator and first-person shooter are video game genres.

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

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Gamer

A gamer is a someone who plays interactive games, either video games, tabletop role-playing games, skill-based card games, or any combination thereof, and who often plays for extended periods of time.

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Gamergate (harassment campaign)

Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture.

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Gone Home

Gone Home is a first-person exploration video game developed and published by The Fullbright Company. Walking simulator and Gone Home are Walking simulators.

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Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.

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Horror game

A horror game is a video game genre centered on horror fiction and typically designed to scare the player. Walking simulator and horror game are video game genres.

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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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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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Misogyny

Misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.

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Orienteering

Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed.

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Outlast

Outlast is a 2013 first-person psychological horror game video game developed and published by Red Barrels. Walking simulator and Outlast are Walking simulators.

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Paratopic

Paratopic is a 2018 first-person horror video game, released for Linux, macOS, Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series.

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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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Procedural generation

In computing, procedural generation (sometimes shortened as proc-gen) is a method of creating data algorithmically as opposed to manually, typically through a combination of human-generated content and algorithms coupled with computer-generated randomness and processing power.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative term and internet meme mostly used for an individual who promotes socially progressive, left-wing or liberal views, including feminism, civil rights, gay and transgender rights, and multiculturalism.

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Steam (service)

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

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Technology demonstration

A technology demonstration (or tech demo), also known as demonstrator model, is a prototype, rough example or otherwise incomplete version of a conceivable product or future system, put together as proof of concept with the primary purpose of showcasing the possible applications, feasibility, performance and method of an idea for a new technology.

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Teleportation in fiction

Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter and/or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a 2014 horror adventure video game developed and published by The Astronauts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Walking simulator and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter are Walking simulators.

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References

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

Also known as Exploration game, Exploration video games, Walking sim.

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