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  2. Video game developer - Wikipedia

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    A group of game developers accepts a game developers' award. A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. [1] [2] A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks [3] to a large business with employee responsibilities ...

  3. Third-person shooter - Wikipedia

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    Definition. An illustration of a protagonist whom a player controls and a tracking camera just behind, slightly above, and slightly facing down towards that character. A third-person shooter is a game structured around shooting, [1] and in which the player can see the avatar on-screen in a third-person view.

  4. Video game publisher - Wikipedia

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    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 developer.. They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer (the publisher calls this external development) and sometimes by paying an internal staff of developers called a studio.

  5. Third-party punishment - Wikipedia

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    Third-party dictator game. Concerning third-party dictator game (TP-DG), the game was modified to include a third person with a punishment option between the dictator and the recipient. The dictator was given an endowment of 100, of which he could choose to share any portion with the recipient.

  6. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games, and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve ...

  7. Indie game - Wikipedia

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    An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games. Because of their independence and freedom to develop, indie games often focus on innovation, experimental gameplay ...

  8. Digital distribution of video games - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In the video game industry, digital distribution is the process of delivering video game content as digital information, without the exchange or purchase of new physical media such as ROM cartridges, magnetic storage, optical discs and flash memory cards.

  9. Multiplayer video game - Wikipedia

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    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, [1] either locally on the same computing system ( couch co-op ), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, DayZ ).