Letter A

AAA

# Industry # Jargon

Abandonware

# Software

Actor

# Development

Advanced Locomotion System (ALS)

# Development

Advergaming

# Genres

Agent

# Development

Aliasing

# Development # Problems

Alpha

# Development

Ambient occlusion

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Anisotropic filtering

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Arcade

# Genres

ARPG

# Genres

Artificial intelligence (AI)

# Development

Asset

# Audiovisual # Development

Asynchronous gameplay

# InGame

Augmented Reality (AR)

# Hardware

Letter B

Baking

# Development # Graphics # Hardware # Techniques

Balancing

# Development # Jargon # Online # Techniques

Ban

# Jargon # Online

Battle Royale

# Genres

Beat ‘em up

# Genres

Behaviour tree

# Development

Benchmark

# Hardware # Software

Beta

# Development

Bilinear filtering

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Blockbuster

# Jargon

Blocking phase

# Development

Blockout

# Development

Blueprint

# Development # Software

Bonus

# InGame

Boss

# InGame

Boss Fight

# InGame

Boss Rush

# Genres

Bot

# Development # Online

Brawler

# Genres

Budget game

# Jargon

Buff

# Development # Jargon # Online

Bug

# Development # Problems

Build

# Development

Bullet hell

# Genres

Bundle

# Industry

Letter C

C Sharp

# Development # Software

C++

# Development # Software

Cap

# Jargon # Techniques

Cascade

# Development

Caster

# Jargon

Casual

# Jargon

CCG

# Genres

Cel Shading

# Audiovisual # Development # Graphics

Cert

# Industry

CGI

# Audiovisual

Chaos

# Development # Software

Checkpoint

# InGame

Chiptune

# Audiovisual # Industry

Class

# Development

Clicker

# Genres

Client

# Software

Clipping

# Development # Graphics # Problems # Techniques

Closed Beta Test (CBT)

# Development

Cloud gaming

# Industry # Online

Co-op

# Genres # Jargon

Code

# Development

Collision

# Development

Combo

# Jargon

Compression

# Development # Techniques

Console

# Hardware

Context-sensitive

# Development

Couch co-op

# Genres

CPU

# Hardware

Letter D

D-Pad

# Hardware

Daily Active Users (DAU)

# Industry

Dash

# InGame

Dashboard

# Software

Death Cam

# Industry # InGame

Death March

# Industry

Debuff

# Jargon # Online

Debug

# Development

Debug console

# Development # Hardware

Dev Kit

# Development # Hardware # Jargon

Letter E

Early Access

# Industry

Easter Egg

# Jargon

Educational

# Genres

Embargo

# Industry # Marketing

Emergent gameplay

# InGame

Emulator

# Software

Endless Runner

# Genres

Letter F

Farming

# Jargon

Feature

# Development

Firmware

# Software

First Person Shooter (FPS)

# Genres

Letter G

Game Designer

# Industry # Jobs

Game Jam

# Industry

Game over

# InGame # Jargon

GameMaker Studio

# Development # Software

Gamepad

# Hardware

Gameplay

# InGame

Gamer

# Jargon

GPU

# Graphics # Hardware

Letter H

Hack ‘n Slash

# Genres

Hacking

# Hardware # Software

Hands off

# Marketing

Hands on

# Marketing

Hardcore gamer

# Jargon

Hardware

# Hardware

HDMI

# Hardware

Letter I

Identifier (ID)

# Industry # Online

Idle games

# Genres

IeSF

# Industry

In-game

# Development # InGame

In-game purchases (IAPs)

# Industry # InGame

Indie

# Industry

Isometric view

# InGame

Letter J

Jagging

# Development # Problems # Techniques

Jailbreak

# Software

Joystick

# Hardware

JRPG

# Genres

Letter K

Kaizo

# Jargon

Kick

# Jargon

Kill cam

# InGame # Online

Letter L

Lag

# Online # Problems

LAN Party

# Jargon

Level of detail (LOD)

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Level sequencer

# Audiovisual # Development # Techniques

Level Streaming

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Letter M

Macro

# Jargon

Macromanagement

# Genres

Main

# Jargon # Online

Malus

# InGame

Map

# InGame

Motion capture (Mocap)

# Audiovisual # Development # Techniques

Letter N

Nanite

# Development # Graphics # Software

Navigation Mesh

# Development # Graphics

Navigation Mesh (NavMesh)

# Development

NDA

# Industry

Nerf

# Jargon # Online

Netcode

# Online # Software

Next-gen

# Hardware # Industry # Jargon

Niagara

# Development # Graphics # Software # Techniques

Nintendo Switch

# Hardware

Letter O

Object

# Development

Open Beta Test (OBT)

# Development # Online

Open World

# InGame

Open World

# InGame

OpenGL

# Software

Outsourcing

# Industry

Letter P

PAL

# Audiovisual # Industry

Parallax Mapping

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Particles

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Party Game

# Genres

Patch

# Development

Pay2Win (P2W)

# Jargon

PlayStation 5

# Hardware

Porting

# Development # Industry

Letter Q

Quality Assurance (QA)

# Industry # Jobs

Quick Time Event

# InGame

Quixel Bridge

# Development # Software

Letter R

Ragdoll

# Development # Problems

RAM

# Hardware

Ray Casting

# Development # Techniques

Ray Tracing

# Development # Techniques

Reflection mapping

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Refresh rate

# Audiovisual # Hardware # Software

Release Candidate (RC)

# Industry # Marketing

Letter S

Saga

# Industry

Sandbox

# Genres

Script

# Audiovisual # Development

Scripting

# Development

Scroll Parallax

# Development # Graphics

SDK

# Development # Hardware

Season Pass

# Industry

Skill tree

# InGame

Split screen

# InGame

Letter T

Target

Tearing

# Graphics # Problems

Teaser

# Marketing

Technical Certification Requirements (TCR)

# Industry

Teraflops

# Hardware

Trilinear filtering

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Letter U

Unity

# Development # Software

Unreal Engine

# Development # Software

User Interface (UI)

# Audiovisual # Development # Graphics

User-generated content (UGC)

# InGame # Online

# Development

Letter V

V-Sync

# Development # Graphics # Techniques

Vertical Slice

# Industry # Marketing

Virtual Reality

# Hardware

Virtual Shadow Maps (VSM)

# Development # Techniques

Letter W

WAI

# Development # Jargon

Whale

# Jargon

White Box

# Development # Techniques

WNF

# Development # Jargon

World Partition

# Development # Software # Techniques

Letter X

Xbox Series

# Hardware

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