Sentences with phrase «of game mechanisms»

Listeners will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.

Not exact matches

Your assumption, that «evolution offers a mechanism for understanding the existence of living organisms that doesn't require the existence of a god» holds weight only if one has the view that «natural explanations» and «theistic explanations» are a zero - sum game.

The death of Jesus on the cross «rescues us from sin» in that it reveals to us the scapegoating, blame - game mechanism behind most of our sin and violence.

He is a movie and baseball buff, and he recalls the film For Love of the Game, in which Kevin Costner played an aging Tigers pitcher who blocks out hostile crowd noise with a mantra of his own, Clear the mechanism.

The cobalt - 60, it was said, could have been rubbed on existing dice during the game without knowledge of the pit bosses, and the small electronic mechanism could have been concealed in a vest pocket.

I felt it but some emotional self - defense mechanism held me back until about the 5 minute mark of last night's game.

While we don't condone the use of negative coping mechanisms here at Cannon Towers, we do acknowledge that sometimes the only way to deal with watching certain Arsenal games is to get a little bit squiffy.

However, there are major flaws in your system; the biggest one I notice being the following: There is no mechanism to vet that the candidates declaring to be of the opinion X actually have that opinion, and thus the system is trivially easy to game.

Using genome data from more than 50,000 cancer cases and 60,000 controls through the GAME - ON (Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology) network, the team compared telomere lengths with the risk of developing breast, lung, colorectal, ovarian and prostate cancers, including subtypes.

Whether it's offsets from no - till farming that would have happened anyway from the Chicago Climate Exchange or offsets from hydropower dams in China that would have been built anyway under the terms of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, it's all a bit of a shell game at present.

Many people think if that is as kind of silly or just game playing, but it turns out that these ideas are at the roots, these ideas about self - reference are also at the roots of the self - reproduction and are at the roots of how living beings reproduce themselves; because the same mechanism of self - reference has to be used in order for an object, the machine or a molecule, to reproduce itself.

EU officials have confirmed they will move to address controversial carbon credits that «game» the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and undermine the effectiveness of the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS)...

Additionally, she leads or co-leads several other collaborative studies, including the Population Architecture Using Genetics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study and the Colorectal Transdisciplinary (CORECT) Study, which is a part of the Genetic Associations and Mechanisms in Oncology (GAME - ON).

If you use video games as a coping mechanism, you're more apt to neglect the issues in your life, thus allowing them to build on themselves, making the escape of the virtual world that much more appealing.

These can manifest in the form of specialized AI mechanisms that automatically match you to individuals who you are likely to connect with, games that you can play with others as a means of breaking the ice, and even mixers which you can attend to meet fellow members in person.

Rememoried is an independent video game, a virtual place where memories change to dreams and the only possible way is forgetting, which becomes a mechanism for proceeding to the next layer of dreams.

Despite the fact that the tedious repetitive mechanisms are part of the game, The Escapists goes beyond that and introduces players to a new level of strategic approach that's being followed by the proportionate rewards that similar games simply don't have.

As for Animal Crossing, well that's a series of community simulation video games, which has a lot of the same mechanisms of Farmville, but the games are more about a village than just a simple farm, but by comparison, Farmville is a lot simpler.

Sure, the guns all pack a satisfying wallop, but they're less prominent than the transformative special abilities, which represent a who's who of fun video game mechanisms.

This sequel, which begins after Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, «American Hustle»), in a dangerous fit of protest, has destroyed the mechanism that controls the «games» as they have played out in Panem for years.

A Solid story, inventive gameplay mechanisms, both third and first person views, a slew of spy equipment, awesome weapons, unique emotional plot and stealth make MGS one of PlayStation's greatest games ever.

On the night in birth is that game this is a 2 - D fighting game with a lot of fantastic characters and complex mechanisms to learn.

I so often find myself utilizing less than ideal mechanisms for the enjoyment of music and game audio (my buzzing car stereo,...

It would have been nice to see some kind of story mode, stages that can be checked off as you clear them, or any mechanism to keep gamers coming back.

They will not cover all possibilities (e.g. I will not elaborate on games which is a quite obvious mechanism of building magic)- I would rather focus on these which are usually neglected.

Games like Strategery and Civilization Revolution — the former a hybrid game, the latter an iPad - optimized title — play much better on the iPad because its larger screen reveals more of the battlefield while still offering a simple touch mechanism for ordering around your units.

Both girls take solace in a game called «The Classification of Living Things,» where people are judged by their animal characteristics, and the recitation of species, genus, family, order, and class is a calming mechanism.

That requires feedback mechanisms, but many of the feedback mechanisms use limited metrics (like only dollars, SEO, social network statistics, genre categorizing and the like) which can be and have been and are shamelessly gamed.

They are undoubtedly guilty and accomplices in this big game of manipulation, but the mechanism to control our life and mind is more sinister and perverse.

Featuring rich, hand - drawn backgrounds, the overall feel of the game is vaguely steampunk, with your character a charming little robot in a world of robots, mechanisms, and...

The point is that once you reach the number you have predetermined to be enough, you begin to see making money as a game instead of a survival or success mechanism.

In general I think of leveling as a lazy design mechanism for people that didn't want to balance their own games, so they decided you could grind your way out of anything they didn't do properly.

A lot of bad things are coming out of this and they all lead to diluting games and the gamers them selves into fanboy mechanisms.

«One of the shortcomings of the first game was we just did not have the mechanism to tell everyone «here's who you are, here's where you are, and who's around you,»» Stern said.

You specifically agree not to: (1) share your account credentials with anyone else, (2) sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, trade or otherwise transfer your account, (3) sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, trade or otherwise transfer any «Gold» or other virtual currencies, game resources, in - game services like «speed - ups,» or other in - game items associated with your account (collectively, «In - Game Items»), except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (4) buy, offer to buy, accept, access or use any other user's account or In - Game Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game Itgame resources, in - game services like «speed - ups,» or other in - game items associated with your account (collectively, «In - Game Items»), except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (4) buy, offer to buy, accept, access or use any other user's account or In - Game Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game Itgame services like «speed - ups,» or other in - game items associated with your account (collectively, «In - Game Items»), except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (4) buy, offer to buy, accept, access or use any other user's account or In - Game Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game Itgame items associated with your account (collectively, «In - Game Items»), except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (4) buy, offer to buy, accept, access or use any other user's account or In - Game Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame Items»), except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (4) buy, offer to buy, accept, access or use any other user's account or In - Game Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (4) buy, offer to buy, accept, access or use any other user's account or In - Game Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame Items, (4) buy, offer to buy, accept, access or use any other user's account or In - Game Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame Items, except by using mechanisms within the Game that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame that anticipate and specifically allow for the non-commercial transfer of In - Game Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame Items, (5) link to or otherwise endorse or identify any websites, organizations, or persons that sell, offer to sell, rent, lease, buy, offer to buy, accept, access, trade or otherwise transfer accounts or In - Game Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame Items, and (6) create or permit to exist an interest or arrangement of any kind, which in substance secures the payment of money or performance of any obligation or gives a creditor priority over unsecured creditors, over any of your rights with respect to the Game, your Game account or In - Game ItGame, your Game account or In - Game ItGame account or In - Game ItGame Items.

One thing to point out, I have read a few reviews and some people on the Xbox version have mentioned a save bug and control issues — I never had any of these on the PS4, I was on the Pro, as my saves worked fine — it never crashed and the control mechanism for the robot and aiming is a bit fiddly (no free aim, locked to eight directional aiming) and it does glitch out if you aim too close to an object but it never broke the game or caused an un-fair death.

We considered an ammo mechanism to limit the number of shots, but that seemed too cumbersome, and running out of ammo would mean «game over» within seconds.

They started working on the high - level game design and creating a short animated movie showing some of the core gameplay mechanism and general visual style of the game.

The game should either have frequent save points, save game progress on exit, or have any other mechanism that minimizes the loss of progress the player has when exiting the game.

It is also worth remembering that while there were earlier save game mechanisms, The Legend of Zelda and Metroid had ratcheted progress that was entirely novel in its day, for all that we take it for granted now.

From 2D shooters like Space Invaders and Ikaruga to 3D ones like Counter-Strike or Battlezone, the amount of space this one core mechanism takes up in games in general is massive.

Quite interestingly, we could find no mention of playing the game this way in the Operations Manual which is rather worrying given the developers «favoured» mechanism is so horrible.

The single game, without regard to system or delivery mechanism, voted by the membership of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences that best utilizes the chosen medium to entertain users.

The critical part of making a game is the control mechanism.

The proposed legislation would prohibit games with «gambling mechanisms» that include a «percentage chance» of getting an item (instead of an outright purchase), from being sold to anyone under the age of 21.

-- Nintendo took Game Informer directly to a dungeon — This dungeon is constantly moving — Game Informer says «Link must manipulate the entire enormous mechanism through his own ingenuity» — Players can skip dungeons if they want and go straight to Calamity Ganon — The substance known as malice covers the dungeon — Link gets hurt if he touches it — Can be destroyed by finding and attacking each pocket of malice's eyeball — Sheikah Slate serves as Link's map, binoculars, more — Use the slate in the dungeon to see a 3D model, tilt the entire dungeon from here — Doing so slides blocks into place and opens up angles you can use to paraglide to new locations — Voice tells you that you need to access terminals with the slate across the dungeon, marked on your map — All bombs in the game are remote and don't blow up on a timer — Simpler approach with dungeons in Breath of the WIld — Game Informer didn't see the familiar chest opening animation and signature music — Never found a signature Zelda item or compass — Wind Blight Ganon is the dungeon boss here — Voice tells you, «It's one of Ganon's Game Informer directly to a dungeon — This dungeon is constantly moving — Game Informer says «Link must manipulate the entire enormous mechanism through his own ingenuity» — Players can skip dungeons if they want and go straight to Calamity Ganon — The substance known as malice covers the dungeon — Link gets hurt if he touches it — Can be destroyed by finding and attacking each pocket of malice's eyeball — Sheikah Slate serves as Link's map, binoculars, more — Use the slate in the dungeon to see a 3D model, tilt the entire dungeon from here — Doing so slides blocks into place and opens up angles you can use to paraglide to new locations — Voice tells you that you need to access terminals with the slate across the dungeon, marked on your map — All bombs in the game are remote and don't blow up on a timer — Simpler approach with dungeons in Breath of the WIld — Game Informer didn't see the familiar chest opening animation and signature music — Never found a signature Zelda item or compass — Wind Blight Ganon is the dungeon boss here — Voice tells you, «It's one of Ganon's Game Informer says «Link must manipulate the entire enormous mechanism through his own ingenuity» — Players can skip dungeons if they want and go straight to Calamity Ganon — The substance known as malice covers the dungeon — Link gets hurt if he touches it — Can be destroyed by finding and attacking each pocket of malice's eyeball — Sheikah Slate serves as Link's map, binoculars, more — Use the slate in the dungeon to see a 3D model, tilt the entire dungeon from here — Doing so slides blocks into place and opens up angles you can use to paraglide to new locations — Voice tells you that you need to access terminals with the slate across the dungeon, marked on your map — All bombs in the game are remote and don't blow up on a timer — Simpler approach with dungeons in Breath of the WIld — Game Informer didn't see the familiar chest opening animation and signature music — Never found a signature Zelda item or compass — Wind Blight Ganon is the dungeon boss here — Voice tells you, «It's one of Ganon's game are remote and don't blow up on a timer — Simpler approach with dungeons in Breath of the WIld — Game Informer didn't see the familiar chest opening animation and signature music — Never found a signature Zelda item or compass — Wind Blight Ganon is the dungeon boss here — Voice tells you, «It's one of Ganon's Game Informer didn't see the familiar chest opening animation and signature music — Never found a signature Zelda item or compass — Wind Blight Ganon is the dungeon boss here — Voice tells you, «It's one of Ganon's own.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

It all goes back to the high risk / high reward mechanism of gameplay which is utilized very well throughout the game.

The games feature further - revamped graphics and sound, as well as a new input mechanism to take advantage of the iPhones / iPod Touchs touch - based interfaces.

A «look over the fence» to the area of independent film financing again provides an insight as to the mechanisms developed in that field, some of which may be a template for future crowd funding of games projects.