The player controls a triangular-shaped ship that can rotate left and right, fire shots straight forward, and thrust forward.

The player can also send their ship into hyperspace, causing it to disappear and reappear in a random location on the screen ( with the risk of self-destructing or appearing on top of an asteroid ).

Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.

Because ending the game is optional, and a player may not realize that he can end it, it is unethical to say " good game ", or in any other way indicate that the game could be ended, until after a player actually has ended the game.

* In the computer game Afterlife, the player controlling Heaven and Hell can eventually purchase Love Domes or Omnibulges.

An eagle will fly in the game near an area where the player has climbed to a high enough structure and there are nearby set pieces into which the player can jump, breaking the character's fall.

Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

These can decide everything from how many steps a player moves their token, as in Monopoly, to how their forces fare in battle, such as in Risk, or which resources a player gains, such as in The Settlers of Catan.

Used to determine the amount of field that the player can cover

To achieve a hit, the batter must reach first base before any fielder can either tag him with the ball, throw to another player protecting the base before the batter reaches it, or tag first base while carrying the ball.

On-base percentage can also vary quite considerably from player to player.

Noted statistician Bill James has argued that unless a player can steal a high percentage of the time, then the stolen base is not useful, and can even be detrimental to a team.

A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means.

A Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) award is given to the outstanding player in each series, though voters can consider performances made during the divisional series.

An alternative view suggests that the optimum tension for power depends on the player: the faster and more accurately a player can swing their racquet, the higher the tension for maximum power.

The player and dealer can count their own Ace as 1 point or 11 points.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

At the end of the hand each player returns his hand, intact, to the correct slot in the bridge board in which it is transported to other tables so that everyone can play the same deals.

Alternatively, if the boards are pre-dealt, " curtain cards " may be supplied which have each hand printed on them, so that each player can check at the beginning of the deal that he has the right cards.

The artificial intelligence of the enemies in the game was on a very high level for its time, with the foes being able to run for cover, call for reinforcements, locate the player throughout the levels, respond to specific scripts etc.

During Survivor: Samoa, Russell Hantz is credited by many as the first player to find the idol without a clue, though technically Gary Hogeboom of Survivor: Guatemala found the first hidden immunity idol without a clue ; between Survivor: Samoa and Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, Hantz would go on to locate six idols with and without help of a clue.

Because most first person shooters utilize a respawn system, players who fall victim to a camper will have the opportunity to locate the camping spot, either visually or through the use of in game radar, and take the appropriate action to kill the player who is camping.

The player and Rock must navigate through the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to North America to locate Columbus.

They also released, " Fantasia " for the Sega Genesis, with the player controlling Mickey Mouse on a quest to locate lost musical notes.

The player must locate keys to open doors.

The player who is " It " shouts out " Marco " and the other players must respond by shouting " Polo ", which " It " uses to try to acoustically locate them.

In the earlier versions of the game, Will urges the player to run and locate Tia Dalama after soldiers can be heard banging on his door.

These types of hacks hijack the current API, such as DirectX or OpenGL, which render a game's graphics to the screen, and use the data gathered to locate players and other objects, for example by counting the number of polygons of player models.

Once in Mournhold, the player will have to locate the head of the Dark Brotherhood and complete a series of side quests for the new King Helseth and the Living God Almalexia.

The player chooses one of seven playable characters, all of whom separately embark on a quest to locate seven magical runes.

The player must first locate the desired materials using prospecting skills, as resources give no visible sign of their presence.

Her piano player had taken ill, and Ina was frantically trying to locate a good-looking blonde lady replacement.

The primary goal of the game is for the player ( as Guys ) to locate evidence and witnesses that can exonerate him of the murder, unveil the true killer, and get him released from prison.

New enemies, textures and music were added, as well as a money system with which the player could locate money and use it to purchase a random item from a vending machine.

The player must then navigate the dungeons beneath Firetop Mountain, battle monsters and attempt to locate the keys.

The preprocessor is used to locate two types of empty space in the map, the empty space enclosed by brushes where the game will be played, and the other empty space outside the brushes that the player will never see.

In addition, the player can use items such as medikits to heal his agents, scanners to locate pedestrians / vehicles and the " Persuadertron " to brainwash the player's targets into blind obedience.

However, they like to run away and hide from the player, making them difficult to locate from time to time.

At the very least, a player must locate mines and flag them ( whereupon they provide constant resources ), since these resources are required to develop towns.

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is a platform game in which the player controls Ty, a tasmanian tiger, who must gather 72 " thunder eggs " in order to power the " talisman machine ", a teleportation device that will locate all five talismans, which will in turn have the power to free his family from the Dreamtime.

When at least seventeen thunder eggs in a zone are obtained, the player must navigate their way to the talisman machine ; after the machine manages to locate a talisman, it opens another portal leading to their original locations ; inside these portals, the player must fight and defeat a boss character before gaining access to a new zone.

Nintendo Power agreed, but criticized the difficulty of the missions that require the player to locate objects.