Terminology used by game developers to refer to concepts.
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What's the term for the “vertical looking angle” in FPSs?
I guess the "vertical angle" of looking in an FPS could be called the pitch of the camera, but surely there is another term for it?
(I'm trying to mod ArmA II, but I can't find anything in their ...
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Difference between Material and Shader
In a game a material does only influence the visual appearance of the object. The visual appearance is effected by shaders. So regarding to terminology is there a difference between materials and ...
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terminology: a position and a facing
my units have a function that returns a position (vec3) and a facing (quaternion) for any point in time.
A position and direction is perhaps called a ray or, in some contexts, a line segment; ...
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Unit selection circle
I do not know whether it's called a circle, or whether it's called a halo or whatever.
But, I do know that I want to know what is the game development world term for this.
So, how do we call it?
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Should I refer to browser-based games as HTML5 games or Javascript games?
First of all, I know that there are alternatives to both HTML5 and Javascript, but I worded the question so generally ("browser-based") because if I had said "HTML5" or "Javascript" games that would ...
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What is the proper term for “permanent world”?
How to name the fact that for a MMO game there's one big session, the same things are happening for all the players, you log out and after two days log in to the same place as the same person ?
I'd ...
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Can polygon normals really be shaded?
"Unable to shade polygon normals" is a copy protection trap in Garry's Mod. I am wondering if the game developers put random cryptic graphic terms up or it is really a problem in graphics. It the ...
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What does the term 'photorealistic' really mean?
I was wondering about the term 'photorealistic' in regards to rendering and was wondering how this is used.
Is it used to describe a shader (or set of) that have certain quantifiable features? Or any ...
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Name of the model in memory that you use for map collision detection?
I'm trying to remember the English name for a memory model of a map built exclusively for handling collision detection. I think this is especially frequent in tile-based platform games.
I believe the ...
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What term is used to refer to iPhone and Android games?
What do you call games developed for Android or iPhone to differentiate them from games developed for other platforms?
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What is the name of the balancing technique that reduces the incremental value of bonuses?
Some games, including Dungeon Crawl (example), use a balancing technique that attempts to prevent certain values (stats, damage, etc.) from being excessively high. The algorithm looks like this:
if ...
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What is the name for the little numbers that appear over characters' heads when they lose health?
...you know the ones. Something like "value overlays" or "value pop-ups" describes them quite well, but I was thinking they might have a real name?
