![]() RPG: Role-Playing Game an offline game where the player takes on the personality of a character and experiences their story, influencing it with their decisions Mod: Modification a modification of a game that has been made not by the company that created the game, but by players, resulting in the game having a different look, and adding various things with the original code of the game as foundation MMORPG : Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game adds the aspect of role playing to an MMO, meaning that players experience the story of their character ![]() MMO: Massively Multiplayer Online Game a game which is played with lots of other players online as opposed to just a group of friends The following terms describe particular types of games.įPS: First Person Shooter a game where the player sees everything from the perspective of their character L8r: later (often meaning 'see you later')Īdditionally a lot of acronyms and abbreviations are used, which can maybe be considered to be a different type of txtspk, but mostly without the phonetic character.īk: back (indicating that you are not afk anymore) Here are some terms that are generally used: As opposed to ltspk, txtsp really does shorten the time spent typing. This way of writing is still widely used in many places, not only in games. 4 on the other hand can be used in b4 (before), which shows that letters are also often used to represent their 'sound' when spelling a word. 1 stays 'one' but can be used to replace letters in a word, for instance no1 (no one) or any1 (anyone). Txtspk, or textspeak, looks similar to leetspeak at first glance because it also uses numbers along with letters, but unlike in ltspk these are used phonetically. This way of talking is not as widely used in games as it once was and excessive ltspk is uncommon and often meant ironically. A 3, for instance, would be an E while 4 represents an A. The symbols and numbers always stand for the letters that they look similar to. Leetspeak is a way of writing that uses numbers and symbols instead of, and in addition to, usual letters with the intention being that this makes typing faster and more efficient. It also is a little dictionary for all those who feel lost in a game and have no idea what everyone else is talking about.ġ337spk, txtspk and General Internet Slang This Entry is an update and should show how the language of gamers developed during the last seven years. This frequently includes lots of abbrevations for game-specific items, places and other.Ī lot has changed since the How to Speak Gamer Entry of 2005. ![]() A specialist language of abbreviations and unique jargon has developed.Īdditionally to the general gamer language, every online game and game genre has its own sub-culture of terms that are used to describe things that are unique for that particular game. At the same time, games often use language terms that are not found in everyday life. As online games require people to play together and therefore communicate, this communication has to be as succinct as possible without drawing too many resources away from playing towards typing. While playing computer games, gamers are usually very busy with pressing buttons on their mouse and keyboard to move their game character, to fight and perform various other actions.
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