free-roaming
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Video games Allowing the player to move freely through a virtual world or choose the game narrative and objectives at will; an open world.
- While Metroid introduced multiple endings to a linear game, other more recent designs have presented free-roaming worlds incorporating multiple gameplay paths.2009, Wendy Despain, Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG, →ISBN, page 49:
- Let the player trigger these in any order she chooses; this is vital because the game ceases being static and takes on the illusion of a free-roaming game.2009, Michael Duggan, Wii Game Creation for Teens, →ISBN, page 294:
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- Its free-roaming world was a departure for both the programmer and for console gamers, and in retrospect it was an ambitious undertaking that could have all gone horribly wrong.2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide, →ISBN:
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Having the ability to move about unconstrained by reins, leashes, fences, cages, barns, and so on.
- From the distance of today, my guess is that it was the free-roaming horses that had most to do with the increase in carnivores, mainly because nobody was trying to protect them.2001, Chilco Choate, The Fire Still Burns, →ISBN, page 51:
- Further, the chickens are free-roaming, which means that it is necessary for the farmers to closely watch what the birds ingest.2004, Kosher Chicken from Canada, →ISBN, page 1-5:
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- As indicated in the Introduction, free-roaming dogs have "always" been a feature of New Providence's environment and they have "always" been considered a "nuisance" or "problem."2005, William J. Fielding, Jane Mather, Maurice Isaacs, Potcakes: Dog Ownership in New Providence, the Bahamas, →ISBN, page 57:
- By 1985, there were nine free-roaming condors left on earth and a few more in zoos.2010, Rebecca Solnit, Mona Caron, A California Bestiary, →ISBN, page 10:
- Since free-roaming cats may come into the yard, any sandboxes should be covered when not in use to prevent cats from defecating in them.2012, The Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health - Volume 1, →ISBN, page Robert H. Friis:
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Astronomy, Natural sciences Not orbiting a gravitational center.
- Microlensed double-image quasars have sent a consistent message that the baryonic dark matter consists of a dark population of free-roaming planet mass objects.2005, Neil J C Spooner, Vitaly Kudryavtsev, The Identification of Dark Matter, →ISBN, page 183:
- This would offer an explanation for some of the free-roaming planets that have been found and it could mean that more exist across the Milky Way.2012, David Braun, National Geographic Tales of the Weird, →ISBN:
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- There are some suggestions that these free-roaming worlds may outnumber stars by several orders of magnitude, dominating the population of objects in the universe.2013, David Stevenson, Under a Crimson Sun: Prospects for Life in a Red Dwarf System, →ISBN: