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Chapter 1&2 Review
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What is a potential customer?
Anyone willing and able to buy your product
Someone who does not want to buy your product
Someone who wants to sell your product
Someone who wants to be on your game design team
2
What is dynamic?
Something that explodes
Soft skills
Hard skills
How the strengths/weaknesses of each member work together
3
What is the role of a Video Game Designer?
Play and test game for glitches
Has physical and mental skills to complete design tasks
Game tester
Creates the controls of the game
4
What is a sports genre?
flight
A life
Physical sporting game
Turn based
5
What is the role of the lead designer?
Sets the vision and direction
Creates game controls
Coordinates all lead managers
Creative director and day to day leader
6
What are core mechanics?
Player input
Documents for design
Programming rules that determine how game works
Visible output
7
What is a board/card/quiz game?
Monopoly Board Game
Chess board game
Monopoly Video game
Life board game
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What is the role of the project manager?
Sets the vision of the game
Day to day leader of team
In charge of leads and making sure projects are on task
Creates game controls
9
If I am trying to market a Ninetendo Pet game what would NOT be the best marketing tool?
Advertisement on Disney
Advertisement on Nikelodeon
Advertisement on Cartoon Network
Advertisement after the news
10
What is the role of the creative director?
In charge of lead managers
Set the vision and direction of game
Sets the rules of the game
Reports to creative director
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What is the role of the user interface designer?
Lead artist
Establishes rules of the game
Creates game controls
Creates game levels
12
Which is NOT a soft skill?
Schooling
Professional Dress
Positive attitude
Respect for self
13
What is an action genre game?
Requires thought and planning to beat opponents
Focus on player moving to build skill and game difficulty
Player avatar performs quests
Built to train and educate player
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What is the role of the quality assurance tester?
Creates game controls
In charge of design documents
Gets paid to play the game
In charge of leads
15
What is a simulation genre?
Solving spatial puzzle
Seek to emulate real world situations
Hand to hand battle
Physical sporting game
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What is NOT a classification of a game?
digital toy
activity organized by rules
game environment that enables play or pretend
victory condition
17
What is an educational genre?
Solve spatial puzzle
No rules or objectives
Purposely built to train and educate player
Fortnite
18
What math skills are needed to be a video game designer?
Probability, Trigonometry, Geometry
Geometry, Algebra, Calculus
Trigonometry, Calculus and Algebra
Trigonometry, Algebra, Probability
19
What is a Gantt chart?
A chart of the bugs that need to be fixed in the game
A PowerPoint
Budget plan
Timeline of tasks for each department
20
Which is not a video game genre?
Simulation
Action
Educational
Soccer
21
What is technical writing?
Putting together a storyboard
Directions for step by step processes
Creating a story
Game manual
22
What is narrative writing?
Instruction manual
Creating a story
Letters and memos
Step by step instructions
23
What is a USP?
Unicorn spitting poison
Unique selling poison
Unique selling point
Unique sales pitch
24
What is Aesthetic Competence?
Black on black
Not scaled properly
Ability to determine what is pleasing to the eye
Bad visual representation
25
What is constructive criticism?
Positive reinforcement and possible improvements
Telling someone they have no talent
Evaluate and give summary
Negative reinforcement and possible improvements
26
What does not meet the criteria for a video game?
Music
Board game
Puzzle
Digital toy
27
What is a cinematic cut scene?
Movie like segment of game w character interaction
Movie like segment of game no character interaction
A scene that is cut from the game by lead designer
Place in game where character gets additional time
28
What is virtual reality?
Potential customers
Marketing tool
Can read body language and display it on screen
Movie, video or dvd
29
What is a model in gaming?
Justin Bieber’s new fiancé
2D asset
Tyra Banks
3D asset
30
If you are a user interface designer what control would you create for a flight simulator?
joystick
real life identical to those on an actual vechicle
motion based controller (Wii)
guitar
31
What are hard skills?
Social graces
Character
Personality
Technical requirements for the job.
32
What is the role of the game designer?
Creates game levels
Creates game controls
Creates visual elements of game
Establishes rules of the game
33
What is the role of the game writer?
Creates game world and functions
Dramatic writers for the team
Creates controls
Lead artists
34
What science is needed?
Anatomy
Chemistry
Biology
Physics
35
What is the role of an audio engineer?
Creates backstory
Creates volume controls
The guy who fixes your car speakers
Create sound that adds depth to game
36
What is the role of the level designer?
Establishes rules of game
Creates game controls
Creating game world and functions
Vision and direction of team
37
What is a marketing tool?
Time, energy and expense to promote product
Complex user interface
Any device or action that draws attention to product
Special feature other product doesn’t offer
38
What is a sprite in gaming?
Something I drink when I’m sick
3D asset
2D asset
Beverage
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What is scrum methodology?
Tasks assigned to small teams that all work toward same goal
A wall
Large group working on different goals
Task assigned to one individual to complete and turn in
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What is a video game?
A game played on a console
A game on a computer
Rules, victory condition, game environment
Electronic game w/ artificial environment on a video screen.
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What is the role of the art designer?
Lead artist
Dramatic writer
Lead arsonist
Creates game controls
42
What is the user interface?
The controls the players use to move and interact with game
Physics engine
Design documents
Player input
43
What is a video game?
A game played on a console
Rules, victory condition, game environment
A game on a computer
Electronic game w/ artificial environment on a video screen.
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What condition does a video game have that a game does not?
rules
victory condition
digital toy
digital computer screen
45
What is an asset?
Backstory
Personal property
Storyboard
Object that can be inserted into a game
46
What is the beginning stage of technology
beginner stage
obsolete
mainstream
experimental
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What is demographic segmentation?
Age, income, gender
Where you are located
Current customers
People who won’t buy product
