#Tv tropes prey video game manual#

Expressive Health Bar: Animations, sounds, etc that play when the player is low on health.Doesn't disrupt gameplay as much as an Exposition Break. Expository Gameplay Limitation: Temporarily limiting the range of actions the player character can make in a game, to allow for exposition.Evolutionary Retcon: As graphics technology improves, the appearance of the enemies changes so they are scarier, more detailed, and/or more lifelike.Event Flag: Something happens that triggers something else (not always related) to occur.Essence Drop: Dead enemies drop some intangible thing (usually spheres) that refill your health, magic, etc.Empty Room Until the Trap: A dungeon room looks empty until you stumble upon to boss/trap.Can leads to Not the Way It Is Meant to Be Played. Emergent Gameplay: In the course of playing a game, players discover new methods and strategies beyond the basic mechanics.Elaborate Equals Effective: Items and weapons will have a better look as they grow stronger.Earn Your Bad Ending: If the Downer Ending among Multiple Endings requires a surprising amount of extra effort to reach.Dynamic Loading: Techniques used to hide Loads and Loads of Loading.Digitized Sprites: Converting an existing or pre-made image into a sprite.Digital Avatar: Your custom persona inside the game (and elsewhere in cyberspace).Cut and Paste Environments: Repetition of levels/environments, either in part or whole.

Context-Sensitive Button: A control that does different things depending on the current situation.

Console Cameo: A replica of the console a game is on (or another console by the same company) appears in the game.

Completion Mockery: Get 100% on a game or task in the game, and the game makes fun of you for it.

Cel Shading: A rendering process used to make 3D models look like cartoons and/or comics.

Back That Light Up: Handheld game consoles can be lit in several ways.

Automatic New Game: If the game can't find a previous save file, it skips the usual choice of 'New Game' / 'Continue Game' and starts up a new game by default.

Asset Actor: A previously-existing model is re-used to substitute for a minor element.

#Tv tropes prey video game manual#

Artwork and Game Graphics Segregation: Things in-game look considerably different than they do in the manual or the boxart.

Arcade-Perfect Port: Once the golden standard for ported video games when the difference in processing power between arcade and home was substantial.Anti-Rage Quitting: Ways in which developers discourage players from leaving multiplayer games early.Anti Idling: Ways to discourage players from being idle during gameplay.When this happens with a character that has an asymmetric design it can create odd inconsistencies. Ambidextrous Sprite: Sprite based games often save data by flipping the character's left and right facing sprites.