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A tour through the meaning of terms and types of games used on the video games industry.

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A bullet hell, or bullet hell shooter, is a game much akin to a ShMUp but has the addition of dodging patterns of onscreen bullets. Most bullet hell games are top down or side-scrolling with no ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

Dungeon crawler is a genre of games where the main objective, or at least main gameplay element, is the completion of a tiered dungeon. The word dungeon itself is misleading as it may refer to any ...

Domain: Video games; Category: General gaming

Fighting games, or fighters and previously Beat 'Em Ups, are divided into the two categories 2D fighters and 3D fighters. 2D Fighters are games which take place on a plane, using sprites or 3D ...

Domain: Video games; Category: General gaming

As the name suggests it is a shooter game played in first person, but not only shooters are in this category of gaming. Any game you play through a characters point of view is fit for this one.

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God game, or God sim, is a prominent branch of RTS where the player is placed in the seat of God or other similar higher power, sometimes as low as city managemnt (Sim City). The main difference ...

Domain: Video games; Category: General gaming

Akin to the RPG, the JRPG presents a less-than-linear story progression that features character interaction and development, alongside turn-based or active-time battle systems and intermittant ...

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

MMOs are games essentially played with others around the globe. They can have variations that define the type of game it is like MMORPGs or MMOFPS and more.

Domain: Entertainment; Category: Games

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