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Markus Alexej Persson ( / ˈmɑːrkəs ˈpɪərsən / ⓘ, Swedish: [ˈmǎrkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ⓘ; born 1 June 1979), also known as " Notch ", [ 3] is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of the video game Minecraft, which since its release has become the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game ...
Player versus player ( PvP) is a type of multiplayer interactive conflict within a game between human players. [ 1] This is often compared to player versus environment (PvE), in which the game itself controls its players' opponents. The terms are most often used in games where both activities exist, [ 2] particularly MMORPGs, MUDs, and other ...
A measure of the rendering speed of a video game's graphics, typically in frames per second (FPS). frame-perfect An action that must be performed within a single frame for perfect execution. free look 1. To be able to look around the map freely, usually limited by typical mechanics of the game such as the boundaries of the game world. This is ...
A first-person shooter ( FPS) is a video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the main character. [ 1] This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category.
Play as a dreamer in the city of dreams, in a unique role-playing environment (in-character at all times). The game features live action FPS combat, an advancement system where players write quests for other players, and a unique faction system with fixed houses that are player run. 3D. Urban Dead. Kevan Davis.
Release. 2001–2005. Genre (s) First-person shooter. Mode (s) Multiplayer, single-player. Cube is a free and open-source first-person shooter video game. It is often mistaken with its engine ( zlib-licensed ), the Cube Engine. The engine and game were developed by Wouter van Oortmerssen. [ 2][ 3][ 4]
PAVE PAWS ( PAVE Phased Array Warning System) is a complex Cold War early warning radar and computer system developed in 1980 to "detect and characterize a sea-launched ballistic missile attack against the United States". [ 1] The first solid-state phased array deployed [ 2] used a pair of Raytheon AN/FPS-115 phased array radar sets at each ...
Mipmap. In computer graphics, mipmaps (also MIP maps) or pyramids [1] [2] [3] are pre-calculated, optimized sequences of images, each of which is a progressively lower resolution representation of the previous. The height and width of each image, or level, in the mipmap is a factor of two smaller than the previous level.