The rules are often framed in broad terms, which allow flexibility in their application depending on the nature of the game.

It was the longest game in Rockies history, in terms of both total innings and total length of time.

The game was the most played Half-Life modification in terms of players, according to GameSpy in 2008.

Customers have expressed frustration with the ads, including an over 200 page thread on Valve's official forums, saying that they violate original terms of service and distract from the game.

In technical terms, each " game server " is actually a cluster of server machines.

Each gaming system has its own name for the role of the gamemaster, such as " judge ", " narrator ", " referee ", " director ", or " storyteller ", and these terms not only describe the role of the gamemaster in general but also help define how the game is intended to be run.

In terms of its long lasting impact on the video game industry, perhaps the most intriguing aspect is Wyn Holloway's claim that Lucasfilm had their frequent partner Sony lined up to manufacture their version of the system, this being contemporaneous with Sony's development of the SNES-CD for Nintendo, which ultimately led to the first PlayStation.

When a mage performs an act of magic that does not seriously violate this commonsense version of reality, in game terms this is called coincidental magic.

In order to understand the metaphysics of the Mage setting, it is important to remember that many of the terms used to describe magic and Magi e. g., Avatar, Quintessence, the Umbra, and Paradox, Resonance, as well as the game mechanics a player uses to describe the areas of magic in which his character is proficient — the Spheres, look, mean, and are understood very differently depending on the paradigm of the Mage in question, even though they are often, in the texts of the game, described from particular paradigmatic points-of-view.

* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere — that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.

The mathematical analysis originated in observations of the behaviour of game equipment such as playing cards and dice, which are designed specifically to introduce random and equalized elements ; in mathematical terms, they are subjects of indifference.

* Role-playing game terms

On April 17, 2008, during the series against the Colorado Rockies at PETCO Park, the Padres played the longest game in team history, in terms of innings ( 22 ), losing 2 – 1.

The game was the second longest in team history, in terms of time, played in 6 hours, 16 minutes.

Steve Jackson Games ' main product line, in terms of sales, is the Munchkin card game, followed by the role-playing system GURPS.

During the 1980s publications used the terms " fighting game " and " beat ' em up " interchangeably, along with other terms such as " martial arts simulation " ( or more specific terms such as " judo simulator ").

With hindsight, critics have argued that the two types of game gradually became dichotomous as they evolved, though the two terms may still be conflated.

If we admit that ruff and trump are convertible terms, of which there is scarcely a doubt, the game of trump was the precursor of whist.

Zork distinguished itself in its genre as an especially rich game, in terms of both the quality of the storytelling and the sophistication of its text parser, which was not limited to simple verb-noun commands (" hit troll "), but recognized some prepositions and conjunctions (" hit the troll with the Elvish sword ").

) Although Wishbringer was never officially linked to the Zork series, the game is generally agreed to be " Zorkian " due to its use of magic and several terms and names from established Zork games.

Historian Marilyn Yalom proposes that the prominence of medieval queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and the power ascribed to women in the troubadour tradition of courtly love, might have been partly responsible for influencing the piece towards its identity as a queen and its extraordinary power on the board, as might the medieval popularity of chess as a game particularly suitable for women to play on equal terms with men.

Although the game managed to sell well in terms of absolute numbers, Atari had grossly overestimated the number of sales it would generate.

The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete.

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

In commercial terms, the Athlon " Classic " was an enormous success — not just because of its own merits, but also because Intel endured a series of major production, design, and quality control issues at this time.

When referring to parallelism in CPUs, two terms are generally used to classify these design techniques.

It seeks to understand physical systems, using mathematical modeling, in terms of inputs, outputs and various components with different behaviors ; use control systems design tools to develop controllers for those systems ; and implement controllers in physical systems employing available technology.

In terms of its value as a collector's item, a coin is generally made more or less valuable by its condition, specific historical significance, rarity, quality / beauty of the design and general popularity with collectors.

# the design process is understood in terms of a discrete sequence of stages.

In terms of gunnery, speed ( 22. 5 knots in trials ) and dimensions, the specific design to chase torpedo boats and her high seas capabilities, Destructor is widely considered the first torpedo-boat destroyer ever built.

A budget for the Exposition was passed and on 1 May Lockroy announced an alteration to the terms of the open competition which was being held for a centerpiece for the exposition, which effectively made the choice of Eiffel's design a foregone conclusion: all entries had to include a study for a four-sided metal tower on the Champ de Mars.

The design principles of the Internet protocols assume that the network infrastructure is inherently unreliable at any single network element or transmission medium and that it is dynamic in terms of availability of links and nodes.

Comparing the cat and the mousetrap, then, one sees that the mousetrap ( which is not alive ) offers better evidence, in terms of irreducible complexity, for intelligent design than the cat.

Under the terms of their contract, the band had autonomy in deciding when they would release albums and tour and had final say over the contents and design of each album.

Novelty almost matched it in terms of efficiency, but its firebox design caused it to gradually slow to a halt due to a build up of molten ash ( called " clinker ") cutting off the air supply.

It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments.

This design is the newest out of the four in terms of form.

In America, Asa Gray argued that evolution is the secondary effect, or modus operandi, of the first cause, design, and published a pamphlet defending the book in terms of theistic evolution, Natural Selection is not inconsistent with Natural Theology.

In the TSP with triangle inequality case it is possible to prove upper bounds in terms of the minimum spanning tree and design an algorithm that has a provable upper bound on the length of the route.

The villas designed by Corbusier in the early part of the 1920s demonstrated what he termed the " precision " of architecture, where each feature of the design needed to be justified in design and urban terms.

Although very significant in terms of its influence on future system design, it is deemed a failure because it only sold approximately 25, 000 units.

This implied that Cray's design would have less flexibility in terms of vector sizes.

Modern postmarks are often applied simultaneously with the cancellation or killer that marks the postage stamp ( s ) as having been used ( though in some circumstances there may be a postmark without a killer, and sometimes the postmark and killer form a continuous design ), and the two terms are often used interchangeably, if incorrectly.

For this reason, the Orange Book ( still a reference on the design of secure operating systems design ) characterizes the various security assurance levels that it defines mainly in terms of the structure and security features of the TCB.

The frequency response specification of a speaker " attempts to describe the range of frequencies or musical tones a speaker can reproduce, measured in Hertz " Subwoofers vary in terms of the range of pitches that they can reproduce, depending on a number of factors such as the size of the cabinet and the construction and design of the enclosure and driver ( s ).