Game Design Semester A Final Exam

Players are focused on winning & weighing their actions by maximizing their chances for victory

Men and woman play video games in nearly equal proportions.

Exerting power to achieve a goal is called:

A machine’s ability to mimic human thinking to appear to be learning is known as:

Mastery is

One of the creators of Tetris was

A state of deep engagement that allows a player to fully invest in a game’s world is called:

Creating pixel-based images that can be applied to the polygonal surfaces of 3D models is

A technical design document is

Pong is the first real video/computer game.

The part of a computer system that contains encoded information for physical components is the

The piece of computer hardware that manipulates a machine’s memory to create images rapidly

In video game development, the person responsible for the visual screen layout & game menus

Scrabble and Uno are good examples of

One of Atari’s infamously horrible games was

Older monitors that used a vacuum tube to generate a focused electron light beam are called:

Good strategic design includes supporting a variety of gameplay styles & different ways to win

One of the best-selling video game consoles of the late 1900s was:

There should be both risks and rewards in the different strategies a player can use in a game.

A flat, two-dimensional surface is:

Games where gameplay is designed to mimic the real world or fictionalized activities

A discipline is

1. Fetch is an example of which kind of game?

In game design, “QA” stands for:

In gaming, “rendering” refers to:

In video game development, the person who designs and documents the underlying systems is

The Magnavox Odyssey was invented by

The programmer who directs, manages, & oversees the programmer team & code for the game is the

Specific design principles and procedures can help players enter a state of flow.

In Unity, which view would you use to move, scale, rotate, and place objects?

A GDD shouldn’t change over the course of a game’s development.

Under transform data, if you changed the “y” value for an object to 0.5, it would:

The French sociologist Caillois said that a basic characteristic of any game is that:

Imposes a cost for using certain strategies, but hides the cost from the player during the game

In a cooperative game, participants strive to outdo each other and emerge victorious.

In Unity, which of the following is considered an “asset?”

Which programming language does Unity use?

Unique combinations of computer hardware or electronics designed to run video games are called:

A camera that views the world through the player’s eyes is:

In game development, the person who oversees and directs the entire design team is the

Feelings that may motivate a player to be engaged in a game include: