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Story Mode
(Narrative Terms)
Mechanical Difficulties (Game Mechanics)
Classics
On Gaming
100

A genre allows the player to take on any ROLE that they choose.

What is an RPG (Role-Playing Game)?

100

The most exciting portion of the game.

What is the climax?

100

A tool that helps you complete a task in the game.

What is an item?

100

The world's biggest puzzle game, featuring four-block shapes.

What is Tetris?

100

The method by which the player interacts with the game.

What is a controller?

200

A game where characters/players compete directly to beat each other in combat.

What is a fighter?

200

This part of the story makes up over 50% of the game.

What is rising action?

200
The ability to combine items to make something new.

What is crafting?

200

The hit mobile game that with an avian protagonist. Eventually taken off of the app store.

What is Flappy Bird?

200

Before the home console, this was the main medium that video games were produced with.

What is an arcade cabinet?

300

A style of game where the player's progress resets after failing the task or dying.

What is a Roguelike?

300

Allows the player to make choices that will impact the outcomes and events of the story.

What is a branching narrative?

300

A gate that allows you to travel across space and move objects through it.

What is a portal?

300

A subject attempts to escape a testing facility from a controlling AI.

What is Portal?

300

A group of characters that the player has control of. A small ___ of four characters.

What is a party?

400

A type of game that often requires you to manage many resources and units to out-maneuver an opponent. 

What is a strategy? 

400

This is the driving force behind a story and will often be what motivates the protagonist to action.

What is conflict?

400

The ability to choose abilities that will improve your character's strength in the game.

What is a skill tree?

400

One of the original video games that pit two people against one another in a goal-scoring match.

What is Pong?

400

A new development in gaming that allows the player's actions to be depicted in the game.

What is Virtual Reality (VR)?

500

A game where you are performing a task just like you would in the real world. (Not VR)

What is a simulator?

500

This section of the story is generally the most cutscene-heavy and sets the groundwork for the story.

What is exposition?

500

When the game gives the player a waypoint or direction to travel toward their next goal.

What is a quest marker?

500

A fantasy game that follows a dragon-blooded protagonist preventing the end of the world.

What is Skyrim?

500

A party where people gather in the same physical location to play/compete in video games.

What is a LAN event/party?