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Instrumental music, often electronic, that does not follow conventional music structures, instead using various sounds to create a mood. Ambient music can evoke many different feelings in the listener, from tranquility to creeping dread.
A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.
Your employer is the most formidable adversary of all.
The act of living outdoors, usually in a tent. It is a common method of providing comfort while resting in forested areas or other regions away from established civilization.
Games that are little more than extensive cinematic sequences in which the player has little interaction with what is happening onscreen. This notion of a cinematic game is epitomized by laserdisc arcade classics such as Astron Belt, Dragon's Lair and Bega's Battle.
The head of a group of devout people who follow their crazy beliefs. Can often be dangerous.
Cults don't necessarily have to be evil or out to destroy the world, but in video games it's usually safe to assume so.
The concept of a helpless female character in desperate need of rescuing by the protagonist, in most cases from a villain, or from a form of impending doom.
A pervasive feeling of sadness, perpetual boredom, or both, which can dramatically affect a person's life.
Someone who investigates unsolved crimes and other mysterious happenings, either for a living, as a hobby, or simply by chance.
Dialogue trees are a feature through which the player selects responses from a list of choices, eliciting reactions from NPCs and determining the path of the conversation and story.
Electronic music is one of the broadest classifications of music, and has been a staple of video game soundtracks since the 90s. The genre's main trait is the use of electronic instruments.
Games in which players are guided through the game by characters via radio communication. Extremely popular narrative device and game mechanic in the current generation of video games.
When a conscious character perceives something that either does not exist or is a contorted reality manifested by the character's unstable psyche.
An in-engine cinematic is a type of cutscene that is rendered in real time using the game's graphics engine.
“Indie” or “independently developed” games are video games which are developed by a studio without the support of an external publisher.
The aim of Indie DB is to connect independent developers of games with players, from the day they start developing their game to the day they release it.
Video games that feature a protagonist that suffers from an inability to fall alseep.
A framing device for storytelling in which the main character is recounting the events of the game's plot (the actual gameplay) to someone as a flashback while they are being interrogated.
A digital distribution service built around indie works and their creators.
Puzzles where light beams must be manipulated in certain ways, usually with a series of mirrors. Popular in action-adventure games.
The single most important thing in the world, love is a powerful story telling element that can connect characters or drive a story. There are many video game characters who have fallen in love with someone or something.
Many games feature the concept of alternate dimensions. These can include the Physical, Astral, Elemental, and Ethereal among others depending on the theology. RPG's sometimes utilize these planes as the realms of gods.
Ray tracing is a method of graphical rendering that realistically simulates the way light interacts with the world, objects, and characters.
The option to display dialog and other information with text on screen.
It's the designer's go-to guy. If they want to steer a player in a given direction they'll lock an in game door and force the player to find a way to either unlock it or find an alternate route.
A distinctive song associated with the game (often played during the introduction/end credits). Note: This concept deals just with songs with lyrics, as opposed to instrumental pieces.
The fourth major iteration of the Unreal Engine from Epic Games. This engine is said to only be suitable for the 8th generation of video game consoles and PC hardware, though it is scalable to a variety of older platforms and mobile.
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