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 Game
Minesweeper (computer game) Minesweeper is a single-player computer platformss.
Digger (computer game) 'Digger' is a computer game, popular in the 1980s, released by Windmill software.
Fallout (computer game) Fallout is a 2004, and a new Fallout 3 project is currently in development.
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/game.html   (8281 words)

  
 Extracts of the Queensland Classification of Computer Games and Images (Interim) Act 1995
Classification of computer games by computer games classification officer 5.(1) If a computer game is not classified, the computer games classification officer may classify the game or refuse to approve the classification of the game.
Reclassification of computer games 6.(1) This section applies if the computer games classification officer is satisfied a computer game classified, or refused approval for classification, under section 5 should have a different classification, or be classified.
Criteria for classification 34.(1) The computer games classification officer shall, in considering whether a computer game is an objectionable computer game, or is suitable or unsuitable for perusal, viewing or playing by a minor, have regard to the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adult persons.
http://libertus.net/liberty/docarchive/qcgia.html   (1852 words)

  
 Uplink (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uplink is a computer game released in 2001 by the British software company Introversion Software.
Onlink Mod, a large Uplink mod (in development)
Introversion has stopped producing new patches for the game, preferring to leave the job of improving the game to the modding community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_(computer_game)   (523 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Rogue (computer game)
Rogue is a dungeon-crawling computer game dating from 1980.
In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine.
Larn is an old roguelike computer game that was originally written by Noah Morgan in 1986.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Rogue-(computer-game)   (523 words)

  
 Abuse (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abuse is a computer game developed by Crack dot Com, and published by Origin Systems/Electronic Arts.
The free release was done based on incomplete game and final version was published through major software publishing house and distributed through ordinary retail channels.
An improved port of the game was released for Mac OS by Bungie Studios and for the Acorn Archimedes by R-Comp Interactive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(computer_game)   (721 words)

  
 Allegiance (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allegiance is a unique computer game, with a mix of real-time strategy and player piloted space combat, initially developed by Microsoft (specifically, Microsoft Research) and now developed by the community since the source code release.
See also: List of computer and video games by name
Games are normally two team matches, though it is common for Deathmatch games to be multi-team affairs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegiance_(computer_game)   (3640 words)

  
 The Art of Computer Game Design- Chapter 3
Such is not the case with computer games.
The state of computer game design is changing quickly.
Games of chance have been played for thousands of years; their implementation onto computers is therefore quite expectable.
http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Chapter3.html   (3640 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ultima
Beh Lem was a Gargoyle NPC in the computer roleplaying game Ultima VI: The False Prophet.
Gargish is the fictional language used by the gargoyle race in the Ultima computer game series.
In the Ultima series of computer role-playing games, Felucca is one of the moons of Britannia.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ultima   (3640 words)

  
 Computer game (Linux Reviews)
The input is processed by the game and output is presented as events corresponding to the rules of the game environment, usually on a television or computer monitor.
A video game is a computer game where a video display is the primary feedback device.
Technically, a computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players may interact with in order to achieve a goal (or set of goals).
http://linuxreviews.org/dictionary/Computer_game   (2879 words)

  
 Darwinia (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Darwinia is the second game made by Introversion Software, the creators of Uplink.
Since the player is the only other person there at the time, Sepulveda decides that the player can help him, giving the player access to the combat programs he had managed to prevent from being completely rewritten by the virus, simple tools that were meant as minigames, mostly involving guns and blowing things up.
Darwinia was released on March 4, 2005, while the Macintosh version was released March 30, 2005 by publisher Ambrosia Software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinia_(computer_game)   (603 words)

  
 Game Research - the art, business, and science of computer games
The computer game industry may not appear to be sparkling with the youthful fervor characteristic of the innovative early 1980& (Crawford, 2000).
The reason for Woods’ search was a computer game.
Mainframe based games were considered collaborative endeavors in a culture that conceived of computers as a means of resource and knowledge sharing [The exploits of the early ’hackers’ are well documented.
http://www.game-research.com/art_road_not_taken.asp   (603 words)

  
 Gorilla (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, the game also includes wind which is assigned a random value from 100 left to 100 right for a given scenario; this can be used to a player's advantage to encircle a building which can not be passed by a simple parabolic path.
Gorilla, like Nibbles, has experienced something of a revival in the early 21st century, in that some mobile phones include a variant of the game.
Gorilla is a video game distributed with MS-DOS 5, Windows 3.1x, Windows 95/98, and Windows NT 4.0.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(game)   (385 words)

  
 Scrabble 2 Computer Game
computer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Similar keywords: computer game (24) computer security (22...
Free Computer Game Software: 3D UltraPong is the classic pong game; - Free Computer Game Software.
make computer game - Make your own computer game with this game maker.
http://gameboardreviews.com/scrabble-2-computer-game.html   (785 words)

  
 Aleph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aleph One, an ongoing project related to the computer game Marathon;
Aleph, an advanced system for inductive logic programming.
Members of the Aleph Zadik Aleph are referred to as Alephs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph   (785 words)

  
 Computer Video Game - Great Computer Video Game
As with computer video game programs for children, there are thousands of computer video game products for adults.
Computer Video Game - Thirty years ago, men, women and children entertained themselves by playing very basic video games.
There are computer video game programs that literally are suitable for players and gamers of all ages.
http://users.bigpond.net.au/dreamcomputers/36.htm   (3860 words)

  
 Worms (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He then took the game to the European Computer Trade Show (ECTS), where the computer game publishers Team 17 had a stand.
As the game was extremely popular, it has been regularly released for other platforms including Windows and Mac based computers, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, Nokia N-Gage, SNES, Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2, Sega Saturn, Microsoft PocketPC, Xbox.
Worms is a series of turn-based computer games with the common theme of players each controlling a small platoon of worms across a two-dimensional (and, in more recent games, three-dimensional), deformable landscape.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_computer_games   (1529 words)

  
 Game Design - Part I
The first computer games were essential prototypes of a new idea, testing wether or not a computer was capable of being entertaining.
This culture was not only an influence in the development of computer games, it was in many ways directly responsible for it as young programmers began creating the first computer games.
The process of computer game design was just beginning, with the motivation provided by imagination and the power of a new tool from science-fiction suddenly made real - the computer.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/dis/Courses/Game490/lecture/lecture.htm   (2836 words)

  
 Gamasutra -- Game Design - A Symmetry Lesson
He was a founder of the Computer Game Developers' Association, and is a frequent lecturer at the Game Developers' Conference and anyplace else that people will listen to him.
One of the most popular asymmetric computer games right now is Starcraft.
In computer games the issue of who goes first is usually moot, since real-time games far outnumber turn-based games.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/game_design/19981016/symmetry.htm   (1963 words)

  
 Battlefield 1942: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
Battlefield 2 is an unreleased computer game based on the electronic arts battlefield franchise....
Computer and video games (c&vg) was a video game magazine in the united kingdom, published monthly between the early 1980s and 2004....
A total conversion, in the computer gaming sense, is a mod (computer gaming)mod (short for "modification") of an existing game where the end result bears little...
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/b/ba/battlefield_1942.htm   (4338 words)

  
 Digital arts and culture 1998: Juul
The task a theorist faces with computer games is not simply one of finding the old in the new.
This means that there is no point in insisting on computer games that tell a story, because that is inherently not what they do: Computer games are collections of elements that are continually combines and recombines to form new interesting patterns.
From a literary perspective, the popularity of the computer game appears unmotivated.
http://cmc.uib.no/dac98/papers/juul.html   (1055 words)

  
 Game Culture - Thinking about computer games
Usability testing of computer games that are in development.
Describe the features that separates computer games from other cultural products, as well as to suggest a relation between different types of computer games, and how this applies to general theories about computer games.
He is currently involved in establishing a games research Lab at Unitec and researching cognitive abilities of FPS games.
http://www.game-culture.com/researchers.html   (1055 words)

  
 Civilization (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Civilization is a computer game created by Sid Meier for Microprose in 1991.
Categories : Computer and video game franchises
In an ironic twist, there is now a board game based on the computer game version of Civilization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_video_game   (1055 words)

  
 Computer Game
The upper stem and branches of the rootstock computer game are cut away and replaced with the scion.
I think computer game part of the problem is the Xed changes his mind very fast and rather dramatically, so you scarce know where he is; while Jmabel is very steady in his opinions.
I computer game am willing to concede that the meaning of "acronym" that excludes abbreviations like FBI may be older and more traditional.
http://computer.funhosts.com/computer/game.html   (1014 words)

  
 tomsphd: Interactivity and 'Game Studies'
The computer game cybertext is not a closed circuit.
[5] This issue remains significant to the study of cybertexts as the computer game industry is characterised by a conflict between producers and consumers that stems from the practices of the gaming subculture threatening the viability of the computer game as a product.
The conflation of visual and ergodic styles under the aegis of genre in the classification of computer games has deep implications for Game Studies.
http://tomsphd.blogspot.com/2004/08/interactivity-and-game-studies.html   (1014 words)

  
 Defcon (computer game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is also an 'Office Mode', where the game can be quickly minimised to the background and the computer can be used for other purposes between bouts of action, with a system tray icon notifying the user of events.
Categories: Computer and video games under development
The company's previous hacking game Uplink and retro action game Darwinia have used the taglines "Trust is a weakness" and "A digital dreamscape", respectively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defcon_(computer_game)   (724 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Flashback: The Quest For Identity - the Computer Game
Flashback: The Quest For Identity - the Computer Game
Flashback was developed by Delphine Software International, creators of such classic games as Cruise for a Corpse and Future Wars, as well as Flashback's predecessor, Another World (known as Out of This World on other platforms).
It will be fondly remembered by true gamers for years to come, and is a must for all retro gaming enthusiasts, whisking players into a world of conspiracy and intrigue, to a time of classic 2D gaming.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A663464   (724 words)

  
 motif play backgammon
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http://themotifplaybackgammon.blogspot.com   (4201 words)

  
 Chess Glossary
Written comments about a position or a game, it can be narrative, Chess notation or both.
Kmoch used the term "Game of the Century" in his Chess Life article to refer narrowly to Chess played by youngsters.
The shortest possible Chess game ending in checkmate:
http://www.chess-poster.com/english/glossary.htm   (4201 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Inverse Text Adventure Game
The computer, using advanced AI and natural language processing tries to win the game.
Could it be possible that we already are a game for the computer like the computer finds it fun to put up messages all the time that say "illegal error" and freezes on you all the time!
In my game, *you* are the adventure game and the computer is the player.
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Inverse_20Text_20Adventure_20Game   (4201 words)

  
 Re: Computer Game Addiction
He is in for a hard taste of realty ----[end quote]---- What I see, is a 17yr old teenager, with a real problem about compulsive computer game playing- to the exclusion of almost everything else...
He is 17 and playing computer games for as long as I have known him...
concerned about my step son's addiction to computer games.
http://www.selfpsychology.org/_forum/00000250.htm   (1426 words)

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