People
This person is known as "the creator of Kirby"
Masahiro Sakurai
The games from this company usually spark a discourse of accessibility and difficulty upon the release of a new game from them.
FROM Software
The expression "Nanomachines, son" is uttered by the final boss in this video game.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Rougelikes/Rougelites
Thatgamecompany's flow is based on this psychological principle
Flow-State
Hideo Kojima
This studio was founded in 1889 and initally developed hanafuda playing cards before entering the video game business.
Nintendo
This is Daniel Mullins latest video game.
inscryption
This is a hierarchical visual representation of customizations a player can make to upgrade their character.
Skill Tree
This term refers to the emergence of complex situations from the interaction of relatively simple game mechanics
Emergent Gameplay
The names of the three main game developers featured in "Indie Game: The Movie"
Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen, Jonathan Blow
This studio developed Grand Theft Auto 2.
DMA Design
This 1997 game got an official English localisation 22 years later. The localization was done by a popular video game journalist.
Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
The name of the genre, focused on non-linear and utility-gated exploration and progression.
Metroidvania
This term describes the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the story and the narrative told through the gameplay.
Ludonarrative Dissonance
This Swedish-Lebanese video game designer was previously a film director
Josef Fares
They were responsible for the development of the Mario & Luigi franchise.
AlphaDream
This is Fumito Ueda's fourth credited game.
Shadow of the Colossus
This Dark Souls III mechanic is infamous for it's invincibility and easy abuse-ability
Roll-Spam / Spam Rolling
This game design term and tool is used to describe the reinforcement of the players action. I.e the player's successes get reinforced with more successes and failures with more failures.
(Example of use: Kill Streaks in COD)
Positive Feedback Loop
The Atari 2600 video game "Adventure" is famous for embedding the creator's name in a easter egg. That name being:
Warren Robinett
This studio developed 2002's Chulip
Punchline
The creator of the very controversial video game Twelve Minutes, Luis Antonio, previously worked as part of the art team of this 2016 indie title.
The Witness
Popularized in Celeste, this term refers to when the game still registers and performs a jump, even after the player has already just left a platform.
Coyote Jump
This Framework, presented by Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc and Robert Zubek, is used as a tool to analyze and understand games by bridging the gap between game design and development, game criticism, and technical game research
MDA-Framework (a.k.a Mechanics, Dynamics,Aesthetics-Framework)