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A skybox is a method of creating backgrounds to make a video game level appear larger than it really is. [1] When a skybox is used, the level is enclosed in a cuboid.The sky, distant mountains, distant buildings, and other unreachable objects are projected onto the cube's faces (using a technique called cube mapping), thus creating the illusion of distant three-dimensional surroundings.
Some of the earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used text characters instead of bitmapped or vector graphics.Examples include MUDs (multi-user dungeons), where players could read or view depictions of rooms, objects, other players, and actions performed in the virtual world; and roguelikes, a subgenre of role-playing video games featuring many monsters, items, and ...
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These APIs for 3D computer graphics are particularly popular: ANGLE, web browsers graphics engine, a cross-platform translator of OpenGL ES calls to DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan API calls. Direct3D (a subset of DirectX) Glide a defunct 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive. Mantle developed by AMD. Metal developed by Apple.
This list of games for the TurboGrafx-16, known as the PC Engine outside North America, covers 678 commercial releases spanning the system's launch on October 10, 1987, until June 3, 1999. It is a home video game console created by NEC , released in Japan as the PC Engine in 1987 and North America as the TurboGrafx-16 in 1989.
Computer graphics is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world.
Game engine Mystery House: On-Line Systems: On-Line Systems Apple II: 5 May 1980: First graphic adventure game, featuring black and white visuals. ADL (Adventure Development Language) Wizard and the Princess: On-Line Systems: On-Line Systems Apple II, Apple II Plus, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, IBM PC, PCjr, FM-7, PC-88, PC-98: August 1980
List of Windows 3.x games; List of Games for Windows – Live titles; X. List of Xbox Live games on Windows 8.x