common video game design subdisciplines are world design, level design, system design, content design, and user interface design. Within the video game industry...

Game art design is a subset of game development involving the process of creating the artistic aspects of video games. Video game art design begins in...

video games, war games, or simulation games benefit from the principles of game design. Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game...

player from all sides. Level design or environment design, is a discipline of game development involving the making of video game levels—locales, stages or...

A game design document (often abbreviated GDD) is a highly descriptive living software design document of the design for a video game. A GDD is created...

Video game music (VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as...

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard...

Video game development (sometimes shortened to gamedev) is the process of creating a video game. It is a multidisciplinary practice, involving programming...

A video game genre is an informal classification of a video game based on how it is played rather than visual or narrative elements. This is independent...

A video game producer is the top person in charge of overseeing development of a video game. The earliest documented use of the term producer in games...

Video game monetization is a type of process that a video game publisher can use to generate revenue from a video game product. The methods of monetization...

will be required to create the game, split into different roles. People who write video games are part of the design team, during pre-production, and...

Video design or projection design is a creative field of stagecraft. It is concerned with the creation and integration of film, motion graphics and live...

single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. A single-player game is usually...

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same...

A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that provides players a great degree of creativity to interact with, usually without any predetermined...

tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them...

Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a 1997 role-playing video game developed and published by Interplay Productions, set in a mid-22nd century...

Breakout is an arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and released on May 13, 1976. It was designed by Steve Wozniak, based on conceptualization...

A side-scrolling video game (alternatively side-scroller) is a game viewed from a side-view camera angle where the screen follows the player as they move...

A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller. These...

and the team studied images and videos of cats for research. They found playing as a cat led to interesting level design opportunities, though they encountered...

A video game genre is a specific category of games related by similar gameplay characteristics. Video game genres are not usually defined by the setting...

Inside is included on multiple lists of the greatest video games of all time as compiled by game journalists. Inside is a puzzle platformer. The player...

A cozy game is a video game genre that emphasizes non-violence and relaxation. Initially derived from the life simulation genre, cozy games commonly include...

100 Video Games of All Time". IGN. Retrieved 2023-12-23. "Top 30 Video Games of All Time". GamingBolt. Retrieved 2023-12-23. "The 100 best video games...

and design of those spaces are often used to draw attention to specific points of interest. Certain areas of the game feature full-motion video sequences...

This is a non-comprehensive list that includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players. Directory:  0–9...

A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game...

sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional...