Glossary

This is a project to define an accessible reference of the language of games. This means common terms that already exist, but also new terms to describe new ideas or help set existing ideas in a better context.

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Aa-Al Abstraction Achievement Action Action Win Activity Actor Adventure Game Advergame Aesthetic Agency Agile Development Alert Alignment Ally Alongside Dialogue Alpha Alternate Reality Game	Am-Az Amusement Animator Arc Arcane Action Area ARPU Art Art Brain Artist Aspirational Art Asset Audio Designer Augmented Reality Game Aura Authenticity Avatar	B Balance Bartle Test Beat Em Up Behaviourism Belief Engine Beta Beyond Fun Binary Information Blue Ocean Board Game Boredom Boss Bowfinger Syndrome Boundary Brain Branched Dialogue Brandification Build Business Model Busywork
Ca-Cn Camera Campaign Campaign Win Card Game Cardinal Sin Casual Game Catharsis Cause Ceremony Chaotic Cooperation Character Character Development Character Establishment Cheat Clarity Class Clean Development Clone Cloud Gaming	Co-Cz Colour Competitive Dynamic Concurrency Conditional Rule Console Game Constraining Rule Context Contiguity Controller Conventional Rule Conversation Gap Conveyance Cooperative Dynamic Covalent Mode Creative Constant Creative Dynamic Crossmedia Cruft Crunch Crystal Intelligence Currency Customer Validation Cut Scene	D DAU Death Decoration Deferred Reward Delightful Attribute Deliverable Demo Denizen Depth Design Tension Determinism Dialogue Box Difficulty Dimensionality Discrete Mode Disorientation Distance to Action Distraction Doll Dominant Tactic Downloadable Content Drama Dynamic Dynamic Win Dysnergy
Ea-Eo Economy Elegance Embodiment Emergence Emotional Validation Empathy Empowerment Enemy Encounter Enclosure Enchantment End-Game Endogeny Engagement Engagement Hierarchy Environment	Ep-Ez Ephemeral Game Epic Win Episodic Game Escapism Evangelism Evergreen Experience Expertise Exploit Exposition Expression Extensible Action Extrinsic Motivator	Fa-Fi Fabula Fairness Fantasy Fantasy Axis Fan Fascination Feature Feedback Fiction Fiero Fighting Game First Five Minute Trap First Person Camera Fixed Point Camera
Fj-Fz Flag Floating Camera Flow Fluid Intelligence Founderwork Four Lenses of Game Making Frailty Frame Frame Axis Freemium Frequency Fringe Gamers Fun Functional Art	G Gamatography Gambling Game Game Design Document Game Designer Game Developer Game Director Gameplay Game Time Game Writer Gamification Gating Genre Geography Global Gold Master Good Enough Graphics Grinding Grok Grounding	H Hazard Handheld Game Haptic Feedback Hardcore Game Harvesting Heads-up Display Heroics Hot Ticket Hollow Win
I-K Icon Immediacy Immersion Incidental Indicator Indie Game Infancy Influencer Inspiration Instance Institutional Art Intellectual Property Interactivity Interest Graph Interrupting Turn Intrinsic Motivator Investment Story Invisibility Iteration Kanban Kano Model	La-Li Lean Legality Lens Lensing Level Level Designer Lever Life Light the Way Linear Attribute Linearity Linear Play Live Action Roleplaying Game Living Gallery Lizard Brain	Lj-Lz Local Game Look Loop Loop Win Looting Loss Point LTV Ludeme Ludology
Ma-Me Machine, The Magical Engineering Market Marketing Story Massive Multiplayer Game Masterwork Mastery MAU Maximum Mastery Mechanic Mechanical Bull Mega-Publisher Memetic Evolution Meta-Game Meta-Mode Metcalfe’s Law Meter Metric	Mf-Mz Mid-Game Milestone Mind Mini-Game Mobile Game Modal Mode Momentum Moron Motion Movable Camera Muggle Multi-Modal Multiple Loop Music Game	N Natural Action Narrative Narrativism Negative Win Nested Mode Never-Ending Quest Niche Niggle No-Brainer Node Nonlinear Play Nudging Numina
O Object Obligation One Shot Economics Opacity Open Beta Opening Open Web Game Optimality Over-Delivery	Pa-Plax Parallel Loop Participation Patch Pay To Play PC Game Pellet Pen and Paper Roleplaying Game Perfect Information Performance Permutation Play Persistent Mode Persuasive Game Phase Physicality Physics Pick Up the Gun Pirate Plane Platform Platformer Platform Shift Platform Story	Play-Pz Play Play Brain Player Character Portfolio Publisher Positive Win Post-Platform Pre-Alpha Pressure Prize Procedural Generation Producer Profit Progression Projection Prompt Property Prototype Publisher Pushable Camera
Q-Re Quality Assurance Quasi-Mode Query Quest Mode Queued Turn Reading Realism Reality Red Ocean Relationship Release Release Candidate Relic Genre Remarkable Resolved Turn Resonance Resource Retention Reward	Rf-Rz Risk Robot Robustness Rock Star Role Roleplaying Roleplaying Game Rotating Camera Rule	Sa-Se Sandbox Play Scale Scenario Scenario Win Scripting Scroll Scrolling Camera Scrum Secret Sauce Seeding Self Serial Loop Serious Game Set Piece Setting
Sf-Sp Signifier Simple Turn Simulacrum Simulation Simulationism Single Franchise Publisher Single Loop Skill Game Small Pond Social Game Social Graph Sociality Space Spirit Sport	Sq-Sz Starving Artist State Stewardship Story Storysense Storyteller Storytelling Strategy Strategy Game Studio Style Subculture Sub-Mode Subscription Surrounding Space Sweet Spot Symphonic Cooperation Synchrony Synergy	Ta-Th Tactic Talking Tangibility Task Task Win Techthulhu Temporany Tension Territory Test Tetrism Thauma Thaumatism Theme Threshold Attribute
Ti-Tz Time Tolerance Tool Toy Toyplay Traction Tracking Camera Transference Transition Transmedia Traveling TRC Tribe Turn	U-V Urgency Ur-Medium Theory User Interface Uniformity Unique Selling Point Vacuuming Value Vanity Metric Variable Variant Mode Verb Vertical Slice Very Good Victory Videogame Virality Virtual Promenade Virtual World Vision Voice	W-Z Waterfall Development Weird Controls Win Work World Worldmaker Zone