Video games vocabulary

A game where the main focus is on applying logical thinking and memory to devise a plan to achieve a goal.

• Strategy game

• Action game

• Puzzle game

• Action game

A game machine typically found in public places like malls, restaurants and amusement arcades, and is usually coin operated.

• Action game

• Aim

• Graphics

• Arcade game

A specific category of games related by similar gameplay characteristics.

• Multiplayer

• Genre

• Setting

• Aim

A persona in the game controlled by players.

 

• Characters

• Multiplayer

• Graphics

• Setting

A video game genre where the player participates in a racing competition.

• Puzzle game

• Strategy game

• Racing game

• Action game

A game where the primary way to achieve victory is to develop a methodical strategy.

 

• Aim

• Racing game

• Puzzle game

• Strategy game

The fluid presentation of graphics, animations, and gameplay.

• Aim

• Setting

• Smoothness

• Characters

The objective or goal that players are intended to achieve (get).

• Aim

• Smoothness

• Genre

• Settings

A video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time.

• Characters

• Graphics

• Genre

• Multiplayer

The visual elements and representation of the game: resolution, details, textures.

• Genre

• Graphics

• Smoothness

• Setting