Some of these games, such as Pyramid from Battlestar Galactica, become real card games as the holder of the intellectual property develops and markets a suitable deck and ruleset for the game, while others, such as " Exploding Snap " from the Harry Potter franchise, lack sufficient descriptions of rules, or depend on cards or other hardware that are infeasible or physically impossible.

In the American game, once the play has started, eligible receivers can become ineligible depending on how the play develops.

In the video game industry, a first-party developer is part of a company that manufactures a video game console, and develops exclusively for it.

Another example is Game Freak, which mainly develops the Nintendo-exclusive Pokémon game series.

* 1951, Alan Turing develops on paper the first program capable of playing a full game of chess.

* 2000: Bruce H. Thomas develops ARQuake, the first outdoor mobile AR game, demonstrating it in the International Symposium on Wearable Computers.

Chin said in an early interview that progress in the game is based upon the abilities the player develops.

Rare was purchased by Microsoft in 2002 for US $ 377 million, a record price for a video game developer, and now develops exclusively for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console.

In 2002 Rare was purchased outright by Microsoft for US $ 377 million, a record fee for a video game developer, and currently develops games for the Xbox 360 console.

Wells's 1913 Little Wars, where the author develops a " melee rule " in his war game.

The company develops and markets products like peripheral devices for PCs, including keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers and webcams.

A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebase for video games or related software, such as game development tools.

An AI programmer develops the logic of the game to simulate intelligence in enemies and opponents.

The flavour of grouse, like most game birds, develops if the bird is hung for a few days after shooting and before eating.

Founded in 1989 in the United States, the company develops products for video game consoles, handheld game systems, as well as for personal computers and wireless devices.

Initially developed by Microsoft Research, the game was later released under a shared source license in 2004 Like an RTS, there is a commander who builds bases and miners, controls the team's cash and develops the team's plan for victory.

RAD Game Tools is privately held company owned by Jeff Roberts and Mitch Soule based in Kirkland, Washington that develops video and computer game software technologies which are licensed primarily by video game companies.

As this element of symbiosis develops, Olimar discovers parts of his ship and travels across the Pikmin Planet, which is assumed to be Earth, albeit with unknown fauna, although, the game is speculated to be taking place in a post-apocalyptic Earth where humans have died out, due to the unknown species, and debris that which humans would use.

It begins with Caulfield standing on a hill at " Pencey Prep " watching a football game below, and develops as Holden visits with his history teacher, Mr. Spencer, for a talk about his expulsion from school and his future.

Dark Omen is based on the Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniature tabletop wargame rules and situated in the Old World in the Warhammer Fantasy world and makes use of the vast background, creating a storyline that develops over the course of the game through illustrations and voice-acted conversations.

The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.

Bäumer describes Leer's ability to attract women by saying " Leer is an old hand at the game ".

Much of the northern colonists depended upon the ability either of themselves to hunt, or for others from which they could purchase game.

In Capoeira, malandragem is the ability to quickly understand an opponent's aggressive intentions, and during a fight or a game, fool, trick and deceive him.

The game posits that this grants them immunity to the effects of hostile environments and pollution and they require no sustenance, at the expense of impeding their reproductive rate and their ability to interact with other intelligent species.

Each edition of the game has offered differing methods of determining these statistics ; as of 4th Edition, players generally assign their ability scores from a list or use points to " buy " them.

The ability for others to create custom levels and otherwise modify the game, in the form of custom WAD files ( short for Where is All the Data ), turned out to be a particularly popular aspect of Doom.

This version features the ability to " rewind " the game to any prior point upon dying, save clips of gameplay, and play co-operatively online, as well as the standard " Dukematch " online mode.

UGO. com listed the ability to kill the dog as one of the best video game urban legends, stating that it is one of the few video game urban legends based in actual truth, since players could shoot the dog in the arcade Vs.

Although the Fortune Deck works as a randomizer, the results obtained by it are entirely arbitrary and subjective, and the GM's absolute power over the game is further emphasized by the three resolution systems: Karma ( the higher character ability wins, modified by situation ), Drama ( the GM decides what happens, by what they think most appropriate ), and Fortune ( more or less the same as the above, with interpretation flavored by a card draw ).

On June 6, 2012, SOE removed the ability to buy game subscription time with Station Cash without any warning to players.

Both of those systems, not coincidentally, use game mechanics inspired by D & D, giving Gamma World characters six ability scores, and measuring character development through increases in character class level.

Age, understanding ( of the game ), ability, intelligence level, and personality are factors that determine what games a person enjoys.

An inside forward, Haynes is widely regarded as the greatest footballer ever to play for the London club, particularly noted for his exceptional passing skill and ability to read a game.

Since the late 1990s, analog sticks ( or thumbsticks, due to their being controlled by one's thumbs ) have become standard on video game consoles and have the ability to indicate the stick's displacement from its neutral position.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

Others provide finer-grained control over capabilities that can be assigned to players so that some players can be granted the ability to view, but not modify, the entire game world, or to perform limited modifications.

" Released the following year, id Software's Doom included the ability to record gameplay as sequences of events that the game engine could later replay in real-time.

One of Mage's highlights is its system for describing magic, based on spheres, a relatively open-ended ' toolkit ' approach to using game mechanics to define the bounds of a given character's magical ability.

The MVS ( Multi Video System ), as the Neo Geo was known to the coin-operated arcade game industry, offered arcade operators the ability to put up to six different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace.

In this game Pepsiman was included as a special character, with his specialty listed as being the ability to " quench one's thirst ".

The game has also been ported to the PlayStation Portable ( PSP ), with multiplayer options, the ability to load maps and mods, and has inspired homebrew like Kurok, a mix of Turok and Goldeneye 64, and Left 4 Quake, a fan-made Left 4 Dead in Quake.

While arm power, accuracy, and pocket presence – the ability to successfully operate from within the " pocket " formed by his blockers – are still the most important quarterback virtues, the ability to elude or run past defenders creates an additional threat that allows greater flexibility in the team's passing and running game.