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flavor text

flavor text noun: text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.

Noun

flavor text (countable and uncountable, plural flavor texts)

  1. Text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.
    • In the old days of Magic the Gathering, the flavor text was almost all serious, sometimes even with quotes from Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe thrown in.2008, Game Developer, Volume 15, Issues 7-11, unknown page
    • One reason why cards are now much more popular, and dice less, in tabletop games is that cards can include colorful, varied, interesting illustrations and brief “flavor text.”2012, Lewis Pulsipher, Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish, McFarland & Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page 129

Forms of flavor text

pluralflavor texts
alternative formflavour text
alternative formflavortext
alternative formflavourtext

Questions about flavor text

What does flavor text mean?
Flavor text means text printed on a card or within the rulebook of a tabletop game or a menu in a video game which does not affect the game's mechanics, but gives background information on characters, places, etc. to enhance the game's atmosphere.
What part of speech is flavor text?
Flavor text is a noun.
What is the plural of flavor text?
The plural of flavor text is flavor texts.

Words near flavor text in the dictionary

  1. flavor of the month
  2. flavor of the road
  3. flavor of the week
  4. flavor saver
  5. flavor savers
  6. flavor text
  7. flavor texts
  8. flavor up
  9. flavorant
  10. flavorants
  11. flavordynamics

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