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  2. Alternate reality game - Wikipedia

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    Accessing the number as a bulletin board system yielded large ASCII art images, all leading towards the announcement of the game's sequel, Portal 2. [56] Later, prior to release of Portal 2 in 2011, a much more expansive ARG called the Potato Sack was run, arranged by a number of independent developers working with Valve, to simulate the re ...

  3. Roguelike - Wikipedia

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    The exact definition of a roguelike game remains a point of debate in the video game community. A "Berlin Interpretation" drafted in 2008 defined a number of high- and low-value factors of "canon" roguelike games Rogue, NetHack and Angband, which have since been used to distinguish these roguelike games from edge cases like Diablo.

  4. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    Length; Name of unit Symbol Definition Relation to SI units ångström: Å ≡ 1 × 10 −10 m: ≡ 0.1 nm astronomical unit: au ≡ 149 597 870 700 m ≈ Distance from Earth to Sun

  5. Alternate character - Wikipedia

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    Multiboxing or Two boxing, dual boxing, or multiplaying, is a method of playing multiplayer games where the player controls two or more characters at the same time. On MUDs (the predecessors of MMORPGs) this is easy to accomplish using a MUD client , and the practice is generally called multiplaying.

  6. History of alternate reality games - Wikipedia

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    It cast players as hackers through seven puzzle-themed "gates" to get the secret data ("agenda"). The popular game was the first online game tied into a product release, making the front page of The New York Times technology section. [3] A sequel, Webrunner II: The Forbidden Code, followed on to promote the release of the Proteus expansion of ...

  7. Repeated game - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, a repeated game (or iterated game) is an extensive form game that consists of a number of repetitions of some base game (called a stage game). The stage game is usually one of the well-studied 2-person games. Repeated games capture the idea that a player will have to take into account the impact of their current action on the ...

  8. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    The tactical role-playing game subgenre principally refers to games which incorporate gameplay from strategy games as an alternative to traditional RPG systems. [52] Like standard RPG, the player controls a finite party and battles a similar number of enemies, but this genre incorporates strategic gameplay such as tactical movement on an ...

  9. Glossary of game theory - Wikipedia

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    A value of a game is a rationally expected outcome. There are more than a few definitions of value, describing different methods of obtaining a solution to the game. Veto A veto denotes the ability (or right) of some player to prevent a specific alternative from being the outcome of the game. A player who has that ability is called a veto player.