Glossary
The words Cognivo's pages and docs use, in one place.
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Playing
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Board game | One of the turn-based games: Chess, Checkers, Reversi, Connect Four, Nine Men's Morris, Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, Hex, and Dots and Boxes. Their rules run on Cognivo's server. |
| Arcade game | Ember or Delve: a real-time game you play on your own, in your browser. |
| Duel | A live game between two people, started with a private link. |
| Invite link | The private link that starts a duel. It works once. |
| Tournament | A knockout bracket for 3 to 32 people, run from one room. |
| Bye | A free pass to the next round, when the number of players doesn't fill the bracket. |
| Move clock | The three minutes each move has in a live game. |
| Coin flip | Letting the server decide, once, who moves first. |
| Theme | How boards and pieces look: Mecha, Classic or Slate. |
Making
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Labs | The tools behind the arcade games, at labs.cognivo.digital. |
| Working copy | What you are making in a lab, saved in your browser as you go. |
| Play test | Opening the game with your working copy, straight from the lab. |
| Ready to play? | A lab's check, in words, that a game can use your work. |
| Finish check | Level Lab's search for a way to the end of a level. |
| Tile | One square of a level's map, on the ground or decoration layer. |
| Thing | Something placed on a level: the start, the goal, collectibles and creatures. Called entities in the file. |
| Sprite | One picture of the art, made of frames. |
| Frame | One drawing of a sprite, such as one step of a run. |
| Palette | The colours a sprite sheet uses, one character each. |
| Animation | Frames played in order at a speed, once or looping. |
| Allow Cognivo to use this | A lab's option. Ticked, it saves your permission in the file, so Cognivo may use it in a game if you send it. |
Your data
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Player record | The anonymous record that lets the server know your seat in a live game. It holds no name or email. |
| Transfer code | A one-time code that moves your player record to another device. |
See Your data at a glance for what is kept, where, and for how long.