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.

One of these was a summoning spell, which the player needed to use to summon certain characters at different parts of the game.

If the player tried to summon the Implementers, the game would suddenly produce a vision of Dave Lebling and Marc Blank at their computers, surprised at this " bug " in the game and working feverishly to fix it.

In the PC game Poseidon ( an expansion pack for Zeus: Master of Olympus ), the player can summon Atalanta to fulfill quests given to the player by the Gods, namely Artemis.

The player can obtain a glyph from this boss, allowing Shanoa to summon jiangshis as familiars.

* In the game Kingdom Hearts, a player is allowed to summon a few Disney characters such as Simba from The Lion King and Mushu from Mulan.

Leif asks the player and Rock to summon all of his crew members to the shore for a thing, so they can decide whether they should recover their ship or settle Vinland.

An early version of the game featured the ability to summon the Cheshire Cat to aid the player in battle.

In the final product, the player can press a button to summon the Cheshire Cat at any time, though he merely provides cryptic advice on the current situation, and does nothing to aid Alice if she is being attacked.

Digital Devil Saga differs from other Megami Tensei games in that the player cannot summon demons, but must utilize a party of characters and their demon transformations.

In The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, when the player is allowed to play as Aragorn on the Pelennor Fields, an option is to summon Army of the Dead.

Worshiping the Titans ( Kronos, Oranos or Gaia ) entitles the player to summon one of several new myth units: the Behemoth, essentially a living regenerating siege unit, the Automaton, a robot that repairs other Automatons during breaks in the fighting, and the Argus, an indescribable creature with eyes covering its whole body, floating in the air that kills units with acid.

Overall, the game favors the more offensive player in the late game and the more defensive player early ( who builds up to summon the Titan or earn these powers ).

There was also a fairly unique ability implemented in Shadowbane that healer based classes could access allowing one to summon, or transport, a player character to their location within only a few moments via a spell.

However, once in battle, the player is not able to summon reinforcements, so proper troop selection between levels is a key to success.

The player can even summon fantastic creatures, such as demon lords, enormous monsters like dragons, and griffins, among many others.

* During each of the two Main Phases, the player may " summon " a monster ( once per turn, not counting other monsters summoned by card effects ), manipulate monsters that are already in play, use Spell and Trap cards, and set cards face-down.

However, in order to summon monsters that are Lv 5 or higher, player must send monsters already on the field ( known as Tribute Summoning ) in order to summon it.

Tribute summoning can only be performed if the player has yet to perform a normal summon during his / her turn.

These cards may be resummoned from the graveyard provided they have been successfully summoned beforehand, though if they are returned to the Extra Deck, the player will need to refulfill the summoning requirements to summon them again.

: Example: Using the ' Polymerization ' spell card and tributing ' Elemental Hero Avian ' and ' Elemental Hero Burstinatrix ' allows the player to specially summon ' Elemental Hero Flame Wingman.

: Example: Using the ' Black Luster Ritual ' spell card and tributing monsters from the field and / or hand whose total levels equal Lv 8 or more allows player to special summon ' Black Luster Soldier ' ( Lv 8 Ritual Monster ).

: Example: Sending ' Junk Synchron ' ( Lv 3 Tuner Monster ) and ' Speed Warrior ' ( Lv 2 ) to the graveyard allows player to special summon ' Junk Warrior ' ( Lv 5 Synchro Monster ).