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mw-heading2"><h2 id="Translingual">Translingual</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Translingual"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Symbol">Symbol</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Symbol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="mul">BG</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_standard" class="extiw" title="w:International standard">international standards</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <span class="use-with-mention"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1" class="extiw" title="w:ISO 3166-1">ISO 3166-1</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2" class="extiw" title="w:ISO 3166-1 alpha-2">alpha-2</a> <a href="/wiki/country_code#English" title="country code">country code</a> for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria#English" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></i>.</span> <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/BGR#Translingual" title="BGR">BGR</a></span> <span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content qualifier-content"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3" class="extiw" title="w:ISO 3166-1 alpha-3">alpha-3</a></span><span class="ib-brac qualifier-brac">)</span></span></dd></dl></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="mul"><a href="/wiki/GB#Translingual" title="GB">GB</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/44px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/66px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/88px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><div style="margin-left: 60px;">English <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article on:<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BG" class="extiw" title="w:BG">BG</a></b></div></div><span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BG" class="extiw" title="w:BG">Wikipedia </a></span></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81571951">.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{font-size:90%;width:250px;padding:4px;text-align:left;background:var(--wikt-palette-paleblue,#f9f9f9);border:var(--border-color-base,#aaa)1px solid}@media screen and (max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .interproject-box{box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.5;width:100%;max-width:100%}}</style> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">BG</strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>, <i>plural</i> <b class="Latn form-of lang-en p-form-of" lang="en"><a href="/w/index.php?title=BGs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="BGs (page does not exist)">BGs</a></b>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#slang" title="Appendix:Glossary">slang</a><span class="ib-comma">,</span> <a href="/wiki/pornography" title="pornography">pornography</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Initialism of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/boy#English" title="boy">boy</a>/<a href="/wiki/girl#English" title="girl">girl</a></i></span></span>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proper_noun">Proper noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Proper noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en">BG</strong></span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/video_game" title="video game">video games</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> <span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Initialism of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate" class="extiw" title="w:Baldur's Gate">Baldur’s Gate</a></i></span></span> <span class="gloss-brac">(</span><span class="gloss-content"><span class="Latn" lang="en">series</span></span><span class="gloss-brac">)</span>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2004</b></span> February, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Green_(writer)" class="extiw" title="w:Jeff Green (writer)">Jeff Green</a>, “<span style="font-style: normal;">[</span>Reviews<span style="font-style: normal;">]</span> <i>Knights of the Old Republic</i>: BioWare and LucasArts deliver a brilliant <i>Star Wars</i> RPG”, in Jeff Green, editor, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Gaming_World" class="extiw" title="w:Computer Gaming World">Computer Gaming World</a></cite>, number <span class="None" lang="und">235</span>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis" class="extiw" title="w:Ziff Davis">Ziff Davis Media, Inc.</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0744-6667">→ISSN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_235/page/n62/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">61</span></a>, column 1:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Along the way, a host of NPCs will join your party—and, as proven in the <i><b>BG</b></i> games, no one does NPCs better than BioWare.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2005</b></span> December, William Abner, “Baldur’s Gate: Closet Classic (1998)”, in <cite>The 2006 Gamer’s Tome of Ultimate Wisdom: An Almanac of Pimps, Orcs, and Lightsabers</cite>, Indianapolis, Ind.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Education#Imprints" class="extiw" title="w:Pearson Education">Que Publishing</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7897-3465-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-7897-3465-6">→ISBN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/2006gamerstomeof0000abne/page/19/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">19</span></a>, columns <span class="None" lang="und">1–2</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">All <b>BG</b> fans have a soft spot for Minsc, the ranger with one too many conks on the noggin and his famous Space Hamster, Boo. <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> There’s a lot of great user-made content out there for the <b>BG</b> series.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2008</b></span> August, “First Shots: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Origins" class="extiw" title="w:Dragon Age: Origins">Dragon Age: Origins</a>”, in <cite>PCGZine</cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/pcgzine_21/page/n18/mode/1up">[1]</a></sup>, number <span class="None" lang="und">21</span>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Interestingly, there’s no alignment system in Dragon Age, unlike previous <b>BG</b> games.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2020</b></span> November, Ben Gelinas, “BioWare Labs”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWare" class="extiw" title="w:BioWare">BioWare</a>: Stories and Secrets from 25 Years of Game Development</cite>, Milwaukie, Ore.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_Books" class="extiw" title="w:Dark Horse Books">Dark Horse Books</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-50671-880-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-50671-880-4">→ISBN</a></small>, part 3 (From Ambition to Reality), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bio-ware-stories-and-secrets-from-25-years-of-game-development/page/175/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">175</span></a>, column 1:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">When <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gaider" class="extiw" title="w:David Gaider">David <span class="quote-note"><span class="quote-gloss-brac">[</span><span class="quote-gloss-content">Gaider</span><span class="quote-gloss-brac">]</span></span></a> was hired, BioWare was still at the Whyte Avenue site, ramping up work on <i>Baldur’s Gate II</i>. “I didn’t know anything about BioWare, but had heard of <i><b>BG</b> I</i>,” David says.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="maintenance-line">(Can we <a href="/wiki/Category:Requests_for_date" title="Category:Requests for date">date</a> this quote?)</span>, <span class="maintenance-line">(Please provide the book title or journal name)</span>:</span></div></li></ul> <ol><li><span class="form-of-definition use-with-mention">Initialism of <span class="form-of-definition-link"><i class="Latn mention" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate_(video_game)" class="extiw" title="w:Baldur's Gate (video game)">Baldur’s Gate</a></i></span></span> <span class="gloss-brac">(</span><span class="gloss-content"><span class="Latn" lang="en">the first game</span></span><span class="gloss-brac">)</span>. <dl><dd><span class="nyms synonym"><span class="defdate">Synonym:</span> <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/BG1#English" title="BG1">BG1</a></span></span></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2001</b></span> October, Thierry Nguyen, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWare" class="extiw" title="w:BioWare">BioWare</a> gives gamers a fitting send-off to its epic role-playing game: This Is the End, My Only Friend”, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Green_(writer)" class="extiw" title="w:Jeff Green (writer)">Jeff Green</a>, editor, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Gaming_World" class="extiw" title="w:Computer Gaming World">Computer Gaming World</a></cite>, number <span class="None" lang="und">207</span>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis" class="extiw" title="w:Ziff Davis">Ziff Davis Media, Inc.</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0744-6667">→ISSN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_207/page/n93/mode/1up">page <span class="None" lang="und">86</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">Starting off as a half-elf ranger with a stick, Scooteris was kind of cool by the end of <b>BG</b> and its expansion, with +2 armor and a longbow. But it’s not until TOB <span class="quote-note"><span class="quote-gloss-brac">[</span><span class="quote-gloss-content"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur%27s_Gate_II:_Throne_of_Bhaal" class="extiw" title="w:Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal">Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal</a></i></span><span class="quote-gloss-brac">]</span></span> that he gets equipment that can kill with one blow.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2003</b></span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Bethke" class="extiw" title="w:Erik Bethke">Erik Bethke</a>, “What Makes Game Development Hard?”, in <cite>Game Development and Production</cite> (Wordware Game Developer’s Library), Plano, Tex.: Wordware Publishing, Inc., <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55622-951-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-55622-951-8">→ISBN</a></small>, pages <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gamedevelopmentp0000beth/page/22/mode/1up">22</a>, column 1, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/gamedevelopmentp0000beth/page/24/mode/1up">24</a>, column 2:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The Baldur’s Gate series (<b>BG</b> with its expansion pack and sequel/expansion pack) has sold nearly 4 million units worldwide. <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> Role-playing games like <b>BG</b> also more complicated and required additional QA <span class="quote-note"><span class="quote-gloss-brac">[</span><span class="quote-gloss-content">quality assurance</span><span class="quote-gloss-brac">]</span></span> time and completely different QA processes.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2009</b></span> March, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Origins" class="extiw" title="w:Dragon Age: Origins">Dragon Age: Origins</a>”, in Gary Steinman, editor, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Gamer" class="extiw" title="w:PC Gamer">PC Gamer</a></cite>, number <span class="None" lang="und">185 / volume 16, number 03</span>, South San Francisco, Calif.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_US" class="extiw" title="w:Future US">Future US, Inc.</a>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1080-4471">→ISSN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/pc-gamer-2011-11-november-uk/PC%20Gamer%202009%203%20MARCH/page/n13/mode/1up">pages <span class="None" lang="und">32–33</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><i><b>BG</b></i>’s pausable combat system was a landmark for tactical RPGs, and <i>Dragon Age</i> wants to recreate that same sense of combat orchestration. <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"> </span> Talky party members with big personalities were a staple of <i><b>BG</b></i>, but having thousands of pixels instead of a few dozen to render your allies’ personas means <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWare" class="extiw" title="w:BioWare">BioWare</a> is eager to develop new favorites for its fans. We’re not sure they’ll be as off-the-wall as Minsc from <i>BG2</i> <span class="q-hellip-sp"> </span><span class="q-hellip-b">[</span>…<span class="q-hellip-b">]</span><span class="q-hellip-b"></span></span></div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><span class="None" lang="und"><b>2018</b></span>, Anton Andreychuk, Natalia Soboleva, Konstantin Yakovlev, “eLIAN: Enhanced Algorithm for Angle-Constrained Path Finding”, in Sergei O. Kuznetsov, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Simeonovich_Osipov" class="extiw" title="w:Gennady Simeonovich Osipov">Gennady S[imeonovich] Osipov</a>, Vadim L. Stefanuk, editors, <cite>Artificial Intelligence: 16th Russian Conference, RCAI 2018, Moscow, Russia, September 24–27, 2018, Proceedings</cite> (Communications in Computer and Information Science; <span class="None" lang="und">934</span>), Cham, Zug: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media" class="extiw" title="w:Springer Science+Business Media">Springer</a>, <small><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-030-00616-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-030-00616-7">→ISBN</a></small>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1865-0929">→ISSN</a></small>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=31ptDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA213">page <span class="None" lang="und">213</span></a>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en"><i><b>BG</b></i> maps (75 in total) represent mostly indoor environments while <i>WIII</i> <span class="quote-note"><span class="quote-gloss-brac">[</span><span class="quote-gloss-content"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_III:_Reign_of_Chaos" class="extiw" title="w:Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos">Warcraft III</a></i></span><span class="quote-gloss-brac">]</span></span> maps (36 in total) – imaginary outdoor environments.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Derived terms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/BG1#English" title="BG1">BG1</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/BG2#English" title="BG2">BG2</a></span>, <span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/BG3#English" title="BG3">BG3</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams_2">Anagrams</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=BG&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Anagrams"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/GB#English" title="GB">GB</a></span></li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=0" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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