Words associated with computer games

You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. If you just care about the words' direct semantic similarity to computers, then there's probably no need for this. There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related , or even loosely associated words.

So although you might see some synonyms of computers in the list below, many of the words below will have other relationships with computers - you could see a word with the exact opposite meaning in the word list, for example. So it's the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a computers vocabulary list, or just a general computers word list for whatever purpose, but it's not necessarily going to be useful if you're looking for words that mean the same thing as computers though it still might be handy for that.

If you're looking for names related to computers, this page might help you come up with ideas. And always delicious. Cooldown : The amount of time you have to feel depressed between using cool attacks. Typically like playing a party based game of Dungeons and Dragons with your friends, only without the need for a Dungeon Master to handle the action, dice to determine results, or indeed, friends.

Class : In which the vast possibilities of the universe are condensed into a few more easily balanced archetypes, the female variants usually wishing they got proper armour. Closed beta : A brief period of time where developers give a game to fans to test, and then pretend that all of their problems and complaints will actually be fixed before release.

Cutscene : A scene intended to convey plot, which in most cases should have been cut. Double-jump : An affront to physics so common, it is its absence that often feels strange. Dungeon : A sprawling world of monsters and treasure and occasionally a cell. It is rarely particularly clear who built these things and why. But on the plus side, loot! DRM : An expensive and controversial way of making pirates wait almost a week to play the latest games, sometimes.

And often pay more for the privilege. Episodic : With the exception of Telltale games and very few others, a guarantee that the game you just bought will never be finished and you should not get too attached to anyone. E-sports : A growing craze in which prodigious expert gamers can make millions and earn the acclaim of the world, before old age takes them in their mids. Emergent : Action coming from the interplay of systems rather than being scripted, though quite often with nudging behind the scenes to make cool stuff happen.

Can result in a ban if online, often more out of pique than actual damage done. An owl with an Uzi. Farming : The art of standing around and gathering the same item or killing the same monster to progress through the game without having new experiences or fun. Free to play : A delightful sweep of games, their goals ranging from simply getting lots of players in and hoping some pay up, to pay mechanics so hostile that they might as well swear at you every time you put in your credit card number.

Can you beat it? God game : A genre of enjoying ultimate power over little worlds of inevitably abused subjects.

Ironically died out after everyone lost faith in the market. Griefer : A player in an online game who gets their kicks by trolling, blocking, killing, and annoying other players.

According to Dante, future inhabitant of the Fifth Circle of Hell. Grinding : The art of turning a good eight hour game into an excruciating 20 hour one by padding out fun with calcified not-fun.

Health potion : A thing that can recover you from the brink of death, if not beyond, yet nobody ever remembers when a character gets hurt in the course of the plot. Immersive sim: Games in which you shoot, level up skills, talk, hack terminals, use vents, eat out of bins and read countless diaries of the recently deceased. Indie game : A game claiming to be indie, be it from one person working in a shack to a company funded by newspaper magnates or discovered leprechaun gold.

Influencer: A person who plays games for an audience, and is legally required to sit in a gaming chair while doing so. Instance : A section of a multiplayer world cut off for just you and any members of your party to adventure in and explore without those pesky other humans getting in the way. Plays like a novel that needed an editor with a machete broken up by fighting, cool music, and ridiculous hair.

Kill streak : Sometimes just a commendation for multiple kills in one life, other times a bonus for being better than everyone else, which helps make you even more better than everyone else. Lag : The ultimate excuse for poor performance, whatever you think it means.

See MOBA. Level : Thing your parents and every TV writer who has to make up a game for a show thinks that all games are still split up into, to the sadness and amusement of all gamers watching. One player thinks of a word and writes down dashes to represent the number of letters. The other guesses letters of the alphabet.

This is a great game for developing spelling and vocabulary. A crossword is a grid of white and black squares, where each white square is one letter of a word. The words intersect. You can find crosswords in many newspapers and magazines on all sorts of subjects , and you can buy booklets and books full of them. Others have more straightforward clues.

Crosswords are great if you want to learn new words and definitions, or at the cryptic end of the scale if you enjoy playing with words and language. Simple ones are suitable for fairly young children, with a little help. The person completing the word search needs to find those words within the grid.

Most word searches are easy enough for children, though younger children will struggle with backward and diagonal words. This is a fun game with a group of people, as you get a wild and wacky mix of ideas. Each player writes down one line of a story and folds the paper over before passing it around the table to the next player.

Once all five stages are complete, the players open out the papers and read out the results. This can be great for sparking ideas, or as a way to encourage reluctant writers to have a go. The second player guesses a word; the first player tells them how many letters match in the right position bulls and how many letters are correct but in the wrong position cows.

These are all games you can buy from Amazon or quite probably your local toyshop. Some squares provide extra points. Letters have different points values depending on how common they are. The end result of scrabble looks like a crossword: a number of words overlapping with one another. If you want to develop your vocabulary particularly of obscure two-letter words… then Scrabble is a great game to play.

This is less well known than Scrabble, but it was one I enjoyed as a child. You then make as many words as you can from the resulting face-up letters. Again, this is a good one for developing vocabulary — and it can be played by children as well as by adults.

You need to write down the words you come up with, which can also be good for developing handwriting. Before you can pass the bomb on during your turn, you need to come up with a word that contains the letters on the card. There are lots of different versions of these available, and they all work in a similar way. The open-ended game has a set of cubes that you roll to create ideas for a story that you can tell along with the other players.

Apples to Apples has red cards with the name of a person, place, thing, etc and green cards with two different descriptions : the player with a green card selects one of the descriptions, and others have to choose a card from their hand of red cards. The judge for that game decides which red card best matches the description.

Dabble is a family-friendly game where you compete with other players to be the first to create five words of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 letters using your 20 tiles. Upwords is like 3D Scrabble: you can stack tiles on top of other tiles to create new words. While small children might find it a bit too challenging or frustrating, due to the short time limit, this could be a great game for older children looking to extend their vocabulary. All the categories are suitable for kids. You can easily play it with a large group there are tokens for up to 8 players, but you could add more without affecting the gameplay.

These are some great ones that you might like to try. This is a kid-friendly RPG aimed at parents who want to create a story with their child ren. The rulebook contains lots of ideas and sample settings, with suggested characters and skills … but you can come up with pretty much any scenario you like. Over the past decade or so, LARP has become a bit more mainstream than it once was.

Some are suitable for children, but do ask event organisers about this. They also involve a lot of writing — so they can be useful for things like vocabulary and spelling. Some are suitable for children, but as with anything online, do ensure your children know how to be safe e.

These can be quite involved and complex, and they can be a great way to learn the skills of telling a long, detailed story e. You can easily make notes on a phone, whether by tapping them in or by recording them. If you find yourself with a bit of time on your hands, why not try one of these writing-related games? Note: all of these are free to download, but most allow in-app purchases, and you may find you need to make a purchase to get the most out of them. This game is a bit like a deconstructed crossword: you get bits of the puzzle and you drag them together to form words that will all match with the clue.