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god games
noun
Plural of god game
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But the master of the genre — the god of God games — is Will Wright.
(In fact, the genre is sometimes referred to as "God games").
SimCity helped establish the genre known as god games, in which players take on an omnipotent role, controlling the game world rather than simply participating in it.
So let's game it out – not in the austere language of theory but of the empire-building "god games" popular on games consoles.
Mr. Molyneux is known as a pioneer of so-called "God games," which give users omnipotent power to control the lives of all the characters in a game.
Games tap into our need to have control; this is very obvious in "god games" such as The Sims, where we shape the lives of virtual humans, but it's becoming a vital element of action adventures and shooters, too.
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His original breakthrough game, SimCity, released in 1989, helped inaugurate an entire genre of gaming: the "god game," in which the player supervises a bustling and multifaceted system, managing resources, juggling different objectives.
In the late nineteen-eighties, a new type of video game quietly emerged — the God game.
Among the pioneers of the God game was Peter Molyneux, of Great Britain, who created Populous, in 1989.
CROTON-ON-HUDSON Croton Free Library A reading of the drama "The God Game," by Suzanne Bradbeer.
"The god game genre was almost invented for free-to-play 25 years ago.
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