Spawning

Spawning is the production or depositing of eggs in large numbers by aquatic animals.

The term has been adopted in video games, especially first-person shooters. In this context, spawning is the creation of a player's avatar in the game and respawning is the recreation of that avatar after the avatar's death. This occurs at the beginning of the round or immediately after being killed. Most games have "spawn points" scattered throughout the map, though in levels designed for team play, there may simply be two areas, one for each team. Some players will lie in wait around spawn points to kill players as they spawn, a practice known as spawn camping.

This is also the term sometimes used in computer gaming for installing a multiplayer-only version of the software on a computer.