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  2. Twitch gameplay - Wikipedia

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    Fast chess, chess played with short time limits between moves, is an example of adding a twitch gameplay element to a turn-based game. Conversely, checkpoints and extra lives are common game mechanics in twitch gaming that attempt to reduce the penalty for errors in play, adding an element of turn-based gameplay.

  3. Mental chronometry - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, the study of conscious accompaniments in the context of reaction time was an important historical development in the late 1800s and early 1900s. For example, Wundt and his associate Oswald Külpe often studied reaction time by asking participants to describe the conscious process that occurred during performance on such tasks. [8]

  4. Lag (video games) - Wikipedia

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    Ping time is an average time measured in milliseconds (ms). [ citation needed ] The lower one's ping is, the lower the latency is and the less lag the player will experience. High ping and low ping are commonly used terms in online gaming, where high ping refers to a ping that causes a severe amount of lag; while any level of ping may cause lag ...

  5. List of commercial failures in video games - Wikipedia

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    After a good sales start in both the U.S. and Japan with 14 launch titles (a record at the time) [60] subsequent low retail support in the U.S., [61] lack of communication with third-party developers by SNK's American management, [62] the craze about Nintendo's Pokémon franchise, [63] anticipation of the 32-bit Game Boy Advance, [63] as well ...

  6. Quick time event - Wikipedia

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    A hypothetical example of a quick time event in a video game. Pressing the X button can stop Wikipe-tan from missing the football.. In video games, a quick time event (QTE) is a method of context-sensitive gameplay in which the player performs actions on the control device shortly after the appearance of an on-screen instruction/prompt.

  7. Dynamic game difficulty balancing - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic game difficulty balancing (DGDB), also known as dynamic difficulty adjustment (DDA), adaptive difficulty or dynamic game balancing (DGB), is the process of automatically changing parameters, scenarios, and behaviors in a video game in real-time, based on the player's ability, in order to avoid making the player bored (if the game is too easy) or frustrated (if it is too hard).

  8. Best response - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, the best response is the strategy (or strategies) which produces the most favorable outcome for a player, taking other players' strategies as given. [1] The concept of a best response is central to John Nash's best-known contribution, the Nash equilibrium, the point at which each player in a game has selected the best response (or one of the best responses) to the other players ...

  9. Stimulus–response compatibility - Wikipedia

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    Stimulus–response (S–R) compatibility is the degree to which a person's perception of the world is compatible with the required action. S–R compatibility has been described as the "naturalness" of the association between a stimulus and its response, such as a left-oriented stimulus requiring a response from the left side of the body.