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Video Game Graphics
Types 2.5D & 3/4 perspective First person (video games) Fixed 3D Full motion video based game Graphical adventure game Graphical video game Side-scrolling video game Text-based game Third-person view Tile-based video game Top-down perspective Vector game Video games with isometric graphics
Topics Computer graphics 2D computer graphics 3D computer graphics 3D rendering Animation Cel-shaded animation Digitizing Rotoscoping Graphics engine First-person shooter engine Tile engine Parallax scrolling Pixel art Skybox (video games) Sprite (computer graphics) Tile set Virtual camera system Voxel
Lists List of FMV-based games List of stereoscopic video games List of text-based computer games
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A graphical video game is any game which employs visual images as the main venue for gameplay. This concept is used to make a distinction for video games which are not text-based games. Many or most of the video games which are most well-known are covered by this description.

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• Video games
• Computer graphics
• Graphical adventure game
• Video game genres
• Graphics engine
• Text-based games
• 3d rendering
• Game engine
• Gameplay
• Sprite (computer graphics)