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Ability-Gated Exploration Platformer

An ability-gated exploration platformer (AGEP) is a genre term for a video game that is heavily based around exploration and non-linearity, with certain areas generally inaccessible without upgrades or new unlockable abilities.

The game space is often open-world or semi-open, and involves encountering obstacles that the player cannot usually overcome without later backtracking. This is the generic term for the genre more popularly known as "Metroidvania" or "Zeldavania."
I'm working on a new game. It's an ability-gated exploration platformer inspired by Dead Cells and Guacamelee!
by ShadowDx64 November 5, 2024
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Exploring Fish

When you let a fish lay eggs in your mouth so you can feel them swimming in your stomach.
My stomach gets so ticklish when I’m exploring fish
by Hazel-nut October 9, 2020
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Edna the explorer

Dora the explorers long lost sister
by YS_jag February 5, 2020
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Explorer 500

An Inflatable Raft that you get from Wal-Mart when you don’t have dingy or tube and want to go floating or camping with your friends. It is Orange, Black, with White detailing and “Explorer 500” written on the bow of the raft. It’s pretty cheaply made. Usually purchased by the drunkest person at the camp site in a hasty fashion as the scramble out to the mountains. The user probably shouldn’t even be using it whilst so intoxicated.
Friend 1) “Hey, Man! We’re going floating at the lake today. Why don’t you come?!?”
Friend 2) “Sounds Rad! I just have to dip out too Walmart and grab a shitty Explorer 500 raft and a Cube of Pil’s”

Guy 1) “You probably shouldn’t go down that river in that shitty dingy. It’s too dangerous and you’re wasted!”
Guy 2) “Whatever, Dude! The Explorer 500 is the most solid boat ever. It’ll tackle these rapids like a Beast!”
*Guy #2’s body is found 4 days later 25 miles down stream floating face down and stuck in some brush*
by thebirdbrand May 31, 2021
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To Internet Explore

To do smth so that even Space Time Continuum collapses.
This criminal was supposed to be executed but the police decided to Internet Explore his date to 2000 years.
by Kjelpop November 10, 2020
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get help with file explorer in windows

When you press the '?' icon in Windows within File Explorer by mistake
*Opens File Explorer and presses the '?' icon when trying to search* "Ugh, I don't need to get help with File Explorer in Windows"
by LoweredUniform August 25, 2024
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Explorating

Combination of “Exploring” and “Adventuring”, created while climbing annoyingly impossible mountainsides in Skyrim for “shortcuts”.

Term used when attempting to access “unreachable” areas in video games using overly-tenacious methods until success or absolute failure. Applicable to any videogame-related situation.
“Heheh, explorating time!” he said, as he mashed the “A” button on his controller to make his character jump non-stop. “I’m sure I can climb this mountainside eventually, even though I shouldn’t.”

“Hey, you know you can’t get up there, right? You’ve been failing for almost an hour now.”
“Shush, I’m explorating. These boxes might help me get there, I’m sure of it!”
by TheBouda January 17, 2022
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