An overview of core terminology for gaming, intended for nongamers.
Alternate reality game (ARG)
Augmented reality (AR)
casual game
cheat code
console
controller
cybertext
first-person shooter. Game genre.
hypertext
immersive
Interactive fiction (IF)
ludology
Massively multiplayer online game (MMO; also MMOG). Scan of MMOs, for example. What an MMO is, what is out there.
Mirror world.
MOO/MUD.
platformer. Game genre.
point and click. Game genre.
procedural literacy/logic
puzzle game. game genre.
Second Life
Simulation.
tutorial
Virtual reality (VR)
walkthrough