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In real-time games, time within the game passes continuously. However, in turn-based games, player turns represent a fixed duration within the game, regardless of how much time passes in the real world. Some games use combinations of real-time and turn-based timekeeping systems. Players debate the merits and flaws of these systems.
In gridiron football, clock management is an aspect of game strategy that focuses on the game clock and/or play clock to achieve a desired result, typically near the end of a match. Depending on the game situation, clock management may entail playing in a manner that either slows or quickens the time elapsed from the game clock, to either ...
A play clock, also called a delay-of-game timer, is a countdown clock intended to speed up the pace of the game in gridiron football.The offensive team must put the ball in play by either snapping the ball during a scrimmage down or kicking the ball during a free kick down before the time expires, or else they will be assessed a 5-yard delay of game (American football) or time count violation ...
Active Time Battle (also abbreviated as ATB) is a role-playing video game mechanic invented by Hiroyuki Ito. It was first used in Final Fantasy IV (1991), and patented in 1995 by Ito and Hironobu Sakaguchi , though the patent expired in 2010, allowing it to be used in any game. [ 1 ]
An analog chess clock. A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run simultaneously. The clocks are used in games where the time is allocated between two parties. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each party takes and prevent ...
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.
A backboard assembly displaying the shot clock in red (8 seconds) and game clock in white (11.8 seconds) In basketball games, the clock stops when the ball is dead and runs when it is live. Running out the clock was a major problem in the early days of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Often, once a team grabbed the lead, they would ...
The 1983 arcade game Tapper is the prototypical time management game, where the player is a bartender who must serve patrons before their patience expires. [1] Later games often feature more tasks, similar to the successful Diner Dash [1] [5] [3] from 2004 that tasked players with restaurant activities from seating customers to washing dishes. [6]