Jank

Quick meaning: Jank is a noun meaning (by extension) A game, or games, with such mechanics.

Meaning

(by extension) A game, or games, with such mechanics.

More Meanings

1. (computing, slang) Janky.
2. (computing) Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.
3. (video games) Game mechanics of unconventional or flawed design or implementation, and the experience of such mechanics, as to ruin or disrupt play, or break immersion; e.g. bugs and glitches.

Example Sentences

Bethesda’s jank made a PvP-centric experience hellish. Players kept finding exploits left and right.

Jank is the understated secret sauce of game development. It can make a bad game good and a good game great.

Maybe Soulstorm is an ideal tribute to the PlayStation era, considering how much period-specific jank is in the code.

Even though JavaScript will try to update the animation every frame, it will likely not be able to do that fast enough and will cause dropped frames (jank) to occur.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jaggies, hang, jitter, frameskip, pop-in, lagfest.

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