MS GAME DESIGN 1A MIDTERM REVIEW

What is the advantage of learning through story compared to learning through personal experience?

In Scratch, if you click on a category of blocks, all of the available blocks in that category will be shown.

What skill would be easiest to learn from a simulation video game?

What ancient game was used to settle disputes between rival cities in Mexico?

What is the fastest way to fix a sound in Scratch if you decide you don’t want a particular effect you just tried?

In Scratch, instructions are communicated by dragging and dropping colorful blocks onto the editor.

In Scratch, what happens if you have a properly assigned code block that says play sound until done?

Interactive, character-driven stories where the player is the main character of a written story using typed commands

What refers to the way players get personally involved in a game, with the ability to influence the outcome?

Game have been a part of human life only recently in human history—about 1100 AD.

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What is one of the oldest board games archeologists have discovered?

When considering the function of gaming in society, what other activity is most similar?

What value makes the most sense to set to a “down” key as a character control in Scratch?

What game is the ancestor to Monopoly?

What is Poker a direct descendent of?

A “ripple” sound in Scratch looks like a blue mass with small waves all along the edges.

When we connect to a story, it can be mental, emotional, or even physical.

The rules and meaning of The Royal Game of Ur have been preserved on stone tablets.

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This type of game is based on doing the best you can with a random setup, emphasizing flexible planning and risk-taking?

What word represents repeating certain blocks in Scratch?

What is a necessary component of a simulation game?

What block(s) would most effectively keep a sprite from moving off the screen?

Games, while entertaining, ultimately don’t have an important role in society.

What description best matches the icon used in Scratch to set a backdrop?

In Scratch, what are used to give instructions to make your character perform tasks?

How a game’s player shapes what happens in their own personal game experience by making choices on how they play is the?

In Scratch, what option in the Sounds tab would allow you to create a sound yourself within Scratch?

In Scratch’s editor, the default viewable window is about 1000 units wide and 400 units high.

In Scratch 3.0, you have to store everything in the Cloud; you can’t save anything locally to your computer.

In Scratch, what is used to create a picture that lies behind the characters in your game?

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In Scratch, what is in the bottom right side of the screen?

What kind of loop repeats until something else (determined by the program) happens?

What is the most common conditional statement?

The when green flag clicked block is found in the Operators category.