| UDP |
User Datagram Protocol. An unreliable method of
sending packets, UDP is faster but less stable in terms of reliable information
than TCP. UDP is often used for faster transmission of data that is not useful
at a later time. |
| Uematsu, Nobuo |
Nobuo Uematsu is one of the most famous and popular
game music composers. He is well known as the composer of Squaresoft's Final
Fantasy franchise. |
| Ultima |
A popular series of games, from Akalabeth in 1979
(often referred to as Ultima 0) to Ultima IX in 1999. U-VII also had to
extensions. Ultima Online was released 1995 and still (2001) has thousands of
active players. The most of the Ultima games are played in a fantasy world
called Britannia (except U-II and U-VIII). Britannia is ruled by Lord British
which is the alias of Richard Garriot, the original creator of the Ultima world.
All games in the Ultima series is tile-based except U-IX and Ultima Online 2
which is yet to be released. |
| UML |
UML is the Unified Modelling Language. It is a highly
structured, object oriented methodology for software engineering. Currently, it
is accepted as the defacto standard. |
| Unary Operator |
Operators that take only one operand, like Not, the
minus sign, and the plus sign |
| Unicode |
A standard for representing characters as numeric values.
Whereas the ASCII standard uses single bytes, and is therefore limited to 256
characters, Unicode uses two bytes to represent each character. This allows
Unicode to represent up to 65,536 characters.
At present, Unicode only contains about 30,000 meaningful characters. But
that is enough to represent virtually every major written language in the world.
Unicode includes, for example, the entire character sets for Chinese and
Japanese.
Because Unicode can easily represent characters from so many languages, its
use is standard to the Java programming language. This is yet another feature
which helps to make Java such a portable language. |
| Unicode |
Unicode is a standard which describes character
encoding, similar to ASCII. However, in contrast to ASCII and other encodings,
Unicode tries to encompass all characters ever needed. While ASCII is limited to
one-byte units and therefore 256 different characters, Unicode uses three
different encoding forms: UTF-8 uses 8-bit units; UTF-16 uses 16-bit units;
UTF-32 uses 32-bit units. All three of these forms can make use of all
characters covered by the standard; in UTF-8 and UTF-16, a character may however
consist of more than one unit. The web site of the Unicode consortium is
http://www.unicode.org/ |
| Unique Selling Proposition |
In advertising, the single unique proposition you make
to your customer about your product that is strong enough to convince them to
buy it. There are 3 parts to this principle: 1. Each advertisement must make a
proposition to the consumer. Not just words, not just product puffery, not just
show-window advertising. Each advertisement must say to each reader: "Buy this
product and you will get this specific benefit". 2. The proposition must be one
that the competition either cannot, or does not, offer. It must be unique --
either a uniqueness of the brand or a claim not otherwise made in that
particular field of advertising. 3. The proposition must be so strong that it
can move the mass millions, i.e., pull over new customers to your product. from
Reality in Advertising by Rosser Reeves |
| UNIX |
A multiuser operating system originally designed in
Bell Labs. Not as popular nowadays, but its spirit lives on in the popular
GNU/Linux system, administered by the GNU (GNU's Not UNIX) project. |
| Unreal |
This was a 3-D first person shooter by Epic Megagames.
It was very similar to Half-Life in that you had to explore a unknown world and
fight the alien race in it. It featured Stunning graphics for the time of
release (roughly 1997) The game featured huge worlds to explore and was one of
the first game that used scripted events to increase the in-depth perspective.
Unlike what many people think.... the coming sequel tot he game is NOT a sequel
for Unreal Tournament it is a sequel for Unreal... unreal is more single-player
based althought it does have multi-player support, Unreal Tournament is almost
completly multi-player based but it does include very challenging bots as well
as it's own built in server so it is easy to find other online games. |
| Unreal Tournament |
A very popular First Person Shooter, developed by Epic
Games. Many people have developed mods for this game. This support of the Unreal
Tournament community helps to provide great replayability. |
| Uploading |
The process of transfering information from a client
to a host. Ex: When you send a file from your computer to an FTP site |
| User Interface |
The part of the game that in which information is
displayed and presented on screen with various commands that the user uses to
communicate with; The uses of the controls in the game, supportive peripherals
needed to accomplish certain game actions, the on-screen interface (inventory
icons, life gauges, scoreboard, etc.), on-screen text and messages, menus,
commands, and options that are described or presented for the user to use to
communicate to the game visually and/or audibly. |
| User Interface |
An interface in which the user interacts with the
game. There is output given to the user through the monitor and speakers, as
well as input taken from the user through the keyboard, mouse, joystick and
other devices. User Interface is commonly used to describe the layout of the
screen and screen elements that the user must interact with. For instance,
buttons or windows that the user must use to access different features or give
commands in the game. |
| USP |
Unique Selling Points. Normally what will be put on
the back of a box or an advertisement showing how a game is different and better
than its competitors and predecessors.
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