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  2. Incremental game - Wikipedia

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    An incremental game, also known as a clicker game, tap game or idle game, is a video game whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions such as clicking on the screen repeatedly. This " grinding " earns the player in-game currency which can be used to increase the rate of currency acquisition. [ 1 ]

  3. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    idle animation An animation that occurs when the player character is not performing any actions. idle game A type of game where player progression happens without the player's input, and often even while the game is closed. See also clicker game. iframes. Also i-frames. See invincibility frames. in-app purchase (IAP)

  4. Massively multiplayer online role-playing game - Wikipedia

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    A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game.. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions.

  5. Idle animation - Wikipedia

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    The idle animation length and details can depend on interaction between the player and character, such as third person player idle animations being longer to avoid looking robotic on repeated viewing. In modern 3D games idle animation are done to give realism. For games targeting towards younger audiences the idle animations are more likely to ...

  6. System Idle Process - Wikipedia

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    The idle threads are scheduled as if they each had a priority lower than can be set for any ordinary thread. Because of the idle process's function, its CPU time measurement (visible through, for example, Windows Task Manager) may make it appear to users that the idle process is monopolizing the CPU. However, the idle process does not use up ...

  7. Idle (CPU) - Wikipedia

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    An advantage of the latter approach is that programs monitoring the system status can see the idle task along with all other tasks; [citation needed] an example is Windows NT's System Idle Process. Some programs are designed to appear to make use of CPU idle time, meaning that they run at a low priority (but slightly higher than idle priority ...

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  9. Video games in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Programming and hardware essentials are a must, considering games are sophisticated computer software. To get into the field many colleges offer classes, certificates, and degrees in computer programming, computer engineering, software development, computer animation, and computer graphics.