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Free-to-play (F2P) refers to video games which give players access to a significant portion of their content without paying.

There are several kinds of free-to-play games, but the most common is based on the freemium software model.

For freemium games, users are granted access to a fully functional game, but must pay microtransactions to access additional content.

Free-to-play can be contrasted with pay to play, in which payment is required before using a service for the first time.

A video game developer is a software developer that specializes in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.

A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with employee responsibilities split between individual disciplines, such as programming, design, art, testing, etc.

Most game development companies have video game publisher financial and usually marketing support.

Self-funded developers are known as independent or indie developers and usually make indie games.

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images.

Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial.

In digital imaging, a pixel, pel, dots, or picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in an all points addressable display device; so it is the smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen.

The address of a pixel corresponds to its physical coordinates.

LCD pixels are manufactured in a two-dimensional grid, and are often represented using dots or squares, but CRT pixels correspond to their timing mechanisms.

A player character or playable character (PC) is a fictional character in a role-playing or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.

The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs).

The actions of non-player characters are typically handled by the game itself in video games, or according to rules followed by a gamemaster refereeing tabletop role-playing games.

The player character functions as a fictional, alternate body for the player controlling it.