Flip-screen

Quick meaning: Flip-screen is an adjective meaning (video games) Not scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.

Meaning

(video games) Not scrolling, but composed of linked screens between which the player can travel.

Example Sentences

Learic and Leanoric concoct their spells by travelling round the flip-screen landscape, collecting rare herbs and roots from the countryside.

Yes, that's right, you've correctly deduced from the plot that what we're talking about here is a flip-screen adventure, each screen presenting you with a few baddies to beat up and one or two problems to solve before you can progress onto the next one.

So, your masterpiece is going to have to be either a straightforward (upward?) vertically scrolling blast (with a choice of fast or faster still but both supremely smooth), a single flip-screen affair or a 'push-scrolling' jobbie where the screen scrolls in accordance with the main sprite.

Synonyms for flip-screen

Depending on context, synonyms include flick-screen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flick-screen, scrollable, emergent, tilebased, responsive, windowed.

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