Video Game Characters
First appearing in 1981, this mustached plumber has risen to be the face of gaming wearing red and blue overalls!
Who is Mario?
What is a game engine?
The term for a predefined event occurring, regardless of the player's prior interactions. This thing typically refers to an event occurring outside of a cutscene.
What is a scripted event?
While widely hyped before release, on launch in 2020 the game was plagued with extreme bugs, oftentimes making characters lose their clothes, cars to flip around unpredictably, and extreme clipping through everything.
What is Cyberpunk 2077?
While not the first game to feature real musicians to market their game, this game is notable for having multiple incredibly successful songs across many different virtual music groups (consisting of in-game characters), that have impacted people who don't even play the game (or games in general).
What is League of Legends?
First appearing in 1995, this character is known for having disconnected and floating hands, feet, and head, in place of normal limbs.
Who is Rayman?
The term for a copy of a game object (scene / prefab / etc.) 'appearing' in the game.
When a character rapidly (or near instantaneously) has their health points reduced to 0 from full, oftentimes (but not always) in one attack.
What is a One-Shot?
This kind of damage application, oftentimes denoted by poison or some kind of affliction, is widely considered poor design due to its lack of clarity and satisfaction for all parties involved.
What is DOT (Damage over time)?
This Nintendo toy is a combination of a statue and an NFC device, making it functional as both a collectors item, a toy, and as a usable video game peripheral.
What is Amiibo?
She suffered an unfortunate fate of being attached to a potato in her second video game appearance (2011), after which the player helps her to get her body back.
Who is GLaDOS?
The exaggerated deformation of an object in motion, used in animation to create fluid movement.
What is squash and stretch?
Having meaningful choices.
What is Agency?
The first live-service game in the series, this game was widely bashed upon its release in 2018 due to poor performance, many bugs, dull and repetitive gameplay, and a departure from the single-player story based gameplay that the series was known for.
What is Fallout 76?
Upon this game's recent full-length feature film release, many disgruntled theater-workers have attempted to prevent people from yelling out this phrase.
What is "Chicken Jockey"?
"Take it easy little dog and repeat after me."
"Take it easy little dog and repeat after you."
"You gotta learn the words, you gotta learn the groove."
"I gotta learn the words, I gotta learn the groove."
Who is parappa the rapper?
Music that changes rapidly depending on the player's environment, actions, interactions, and more.
What is dynamic music (or adaptive music)?
These kinds of players are favored in games with increased amounts of randomness or uncertainty.
What are worse players?
EA holds the most downvoted Reddit comment of all time discussing this game, which the phrase "a sense of pride and accomplishment", comes from.
What is 'Star Wars Battlefront 2'?
To promote this game, Activision spread fake news of a terrorist attack in Singapore on twitter.
Jim Raynor's right hand man, who betrayed him at the last moment. He is known for wielding a massive minigun.
A pinkish-purple and black checkerboard represents this.
What is a missing texture?
My personal pet peeve, these are game development ideas that think through fragmented perspectives faaar to early in development to even remotely implement. Effort spent towards implementing these ideas oftentimes takes away from creating a solid framework for gameplay, and can often lead to dull, one-note, or repetitive games.
What is the 'Bowser's Inside Story' remake?
A breakfast cereal developed by the now defunct Ralston Cereals from 1988 to 1989, it contains two different bags of cereal, each representing a flavor from a different game. The name is a pun on 'NES'.
What is the Nintendo Cereal System?