Contract catalogue

Decides what your health bar or XP bar does when it overfills, hits zero, or fills into the next level.

Also: health, health bar, stamina, mana

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Boss staggerExperienceHealthKarmaOxygenStamina

Decides when a container is full, what happens to items that do not fit, and where items go in and come out.

Also: inventory, backpack, bag, chest

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BackpackHunters satchelWorkshop stockpile

Decides what your crafting bench or build queue does when it is stopped, fails, or has nowhere to put the result.

Also: recipe resolution, crafting, recipe, crafting bench

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AssemblerBarracksConstruction siteHand benchKitchenPoint researchResearch labSalvage

Decides what your turn order does when two things land at once: which goes first and how a tie breaks.

Also: turn order, initiative, initiative tie, resolution order

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Arena waveCard duelSolo puzzleTactics tie

Decides how i-frames, cooldowns, and status effects repeat, keep or lose time while play is suspended, end early, or expire.

Also: invulnerability frames, i-frames, restart lock, cooldown window

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Dodge roll invulnerabilityPoison window

Decides how your grid is numbered, which cells are neighbours, how distance works, and how a rule breaks a tie.

Also: grid, tile map, coordinates, origin

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Chess boardDungeon mapRacing track grid

Decides what each camera must keep on screen, what may push it off screen, such as zoom, and what happens then.

Also: camera, camera bounds, camera follow, camera framing

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Couch coop cameraEndless runner cameraParty RPG with a tactical viewPlatformer follow cameraPuzzle board cameraTop down objective camera

Decides which button, key, or touch runs each action, how players can change it, and what happens when a press is hard.

Also: controls, control scheme, control layout, key bindings

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Fighting inputsHeld repairMobile touchPC consoleRTS pointerShooter layers

Decides what your jump or dodge does when it lands early or late, and which action wins when several come due.

Also: coyote time, input buffer, jump buffer, input buffering

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Fighting game action classesPlatformer jump and dashRace start throttleRhythm lane hitSingle action turn puzzleSoulslike action buffer

Decides what a mouse click or screen tap does: what it selects, what it orders, and what a cancel ends.

Also: click to move, tap to move, unit selection, box select

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ARPG held click to move and attackColony work designationMOBA selection and smart castPoint and click adventure verb coinRTS select order and castTower defense placement

Decides what your racing ghost has to match, whether an update can still play it, and what happens at the first difference.

Also: replay, replay file, rerun, determinism

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Patched racing ghostPuzzle solution shareRacing ghost lapRoguelike daily runRTS observer replay

Decides what your campaign progress and settings survive, from a crash to a new device, and what a damaged save shows.

Also: save state, save data, persistence, reload

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Account settingsArcade scoreCloud campaignContinuous worldRoguelike runStory campaign

Decides what your energy refill or crop timer does while the game is closed, and what the player sees on return.

Also: offline progress, away progress, catch-up, background progress

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Daily rewardEnergy refill while awayLives refill while awayPumpkin growth windowPuzzle position

Decides which actions players can find, what they see when an action is greyed out, and which action a shared button runs.

Also: action prompts, interact prompt, context-sensitive interact, shared interact button

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Cozy sceneDoor interactSecret finisherTraversal affordances

Decides which game facts players can always read, and how each one reaches them without relying on colour alone.

Also: readable facts, accessibility cues, information channels, colour alternatives

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Card keyword stateSquad tactics readouts