Free-roaming
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 present participle and gerund of free-roam form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 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."
- 2 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."
- 3 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."
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More examples"While Metroid introduced multiple endings to a linear game, other more recent designs have presented free-roaming worlds incorporating multiple gameplay paths."
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