Meaning of pixel hunt | Babel Free

Definitions

a search for a small, onscreen, hard-to-find object in a graphic adventure puzzle video game

countable, uncountable

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“Like most adventure games, Phantasmagoria is a bit of a pixel hunt, so move your cursor around the screen to see what can be manipulated or examined in each room.”

“(..) and adjust the block size on the screen, so the visually impaired can play with big blocks, and those who like to play pixel hunt can do so with single-pixel square blocks.”

“Finding the solution to a puzzle involved figuring out how to move an object, or trying to decide in what sequence objects should be configured, or the frustrating “pixel hunt” (searching for the one spot on the screen that was a hot spot).”

“Though far less frustrating than many text adventures, point-and-click adventure games often featured at least a few puzzles with highly illogical solutions and frequently forced players to engage in a “pixel hunt,” which refers to the process of moving and clicking the mouse all over a screen in hopes of finding a missed item or other important “hotspot.””

“This is similar to a blunder designers of adventure games can make. We called this a pixel''' hunt and strove mightily to avoid falling into that trap.”

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