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  2. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    Type. Game creation system, massively multiplayer online game. Roblox ( / ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.

  3. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    The roguelike video game subgenre borrows its name and gameplay elements from the 1980 computer game Rogue. Superficially, a roguelike is a two-dimensional dungeon crawl with a high degree of randomness via procedural generation, an emphasis on statistical character development, and the use of permadeath. Though traditionally featuring a text ...

  4. Video game development - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Video game development (sometimes shortened to gamedev) is the process of creating a video game. It is a multidisciplinary practice, involving programming, design, art, audio, user interface, and writing. Each of those may be made up of more specialized skills; art includes 3D modeling of objects, character modeling, animation, visual ...

  5. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

  6. List of game engines - Wikipedia

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    A rhythm video game and engine that was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's DDR: Stratagus: C++: Lua: Yes 2D Linux: Bos Wars: GPL-2.0-only: For real-time strategy games Stride: C#: C#: Yes 2D, 3D Windows, Linux, Xbox One, iOS, Android, UWP: MIT: Built in .NET, so it always supports latest C#. Previously known as Paradox and Xenko ...

  7. Blizzard Entertainment - Wikipedia

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    blizzard.com. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, the company was founded in February 1991 as Silicon & Synapse, Inc. by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: [ 1] Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce and Allen Adham.

  8. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    A subunit of a player's turn. For example, a game may allow an action to occur only so long as the player has sufficient 'action points' to complete the action. [8] [9] action role-playing game (ARPG) A genre of role-playing video game where battle actions are performed in real-time instead of a turn-based mechanic.

  9. Q*bert - Wikipedia

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    NA: 2003. Genre (s) Action, puzzle. Mode (s) 1-2 players alternating turns. Q*bert ( / ˈkjuːbərt /) is an arcade video game developed and published for the North American market by Gottlieb in 1982. It is a 2D action game with puzzle elements that uses isometric graphics to create a pseudo-3D effect.