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The live streaming of video games is an activity where people broadcast themselves playing games to a live audience online. [1] The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on the US-based site Twitch, before growing to YouTube, Facebook, China-based sites Huya Live, DouYu, and Bilibili, and other services.
pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words). (a) = acronym, e.g.: SARS – (a) severe acute respiratory syndrome (i) = initialism, e.g.: CD – (i) compact disc
casual gaming Playing video games on an infrequent and spontaneous basis without a long-term commitment. Casual video games are distinguished by a low learning curve and ease of access, often web-based for mobile phones or personal computers. Most casual games have simplified controls, with one or two buttons dominating play.
Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live action with animation to create a live-action animated feature film . Live action is used to define film, video games or similar visual media. [ 1 ]
Live-action gaming is sometimes described to novice players as a hobby lying somewhere between LARP and historical reenactment. [1] This is accurate in that the game contains the WYSIWYG philosophy and minimalist rules of historical reenactment, but adds the unpredictable outcome and player-created plot found at some LARP events.
An attribute is a piece of data (a "statistic") that describes to what extent a fictional character in a role-playing game possesses a specific natural, in-born characteristic common to all characters in the game.
Actual play, also called live play, [1] is a genre of podcast or web show in which people play tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) for an audience. [2] [3] Actual play often encompasses in-character interactions between players, storytelling from the gamemaster, and out-of-character engagements such as dice rolls and discussion of game mechanics. [3]
An interactive film is a video game or other interactive media that has characteristics of a cinematic film.In the video game industry, the term refers to a movie game, a video game that presents its gameplay in a cinematic, scripted manner, often through the use of full-motion video of either animated or live-action footage.