god game
god game noun: a style of game in which the player observes and controls a large-scale environment, such as a city.
Noun
god game (plural god games)
- A style of game in which the player observes and controls a large-scale environment, such as a city.
- Mana often grows in exponential proportion to population size, so as the population increases the player acquires vastly greater powers—a progression that god games share with spellcaster characters in role-playing games.2010, Ernest Adams, Fundamentals of Game Design, page 580
- Hassabis knew Bullfrog as one of the top game studios in Europe. Its founder, Peter Molyneux, was a big-eared, big-talking, lanky creative who did not just design games; he invented entire new genres of games, notably the “god games” in which players controlled the fates of hordes of digital...2026, Sebastian Mallaby, chapter 1, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN
Forms of god game
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Questions about god game
- What does god game mean?
- God game means a style of game in which the player observes and controls a large-scale environment, such as a city.
- What part of speech is god game?
- God game is a noun.
- What is the plural of god game?
- The plural of god game is god games.
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