COMP440 Exam 2 Review

Question 1

What is the correct order of the classic dramatic arc?

Accepted Answer

Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

Question 2

What are the basic building blocks of a system?

Accepted Answer

Objects

Question 3

What is the agent through whose actions a drama is told?

Accepted Answer

Character

Question 4

_____ are qualities Or attributes that define phsyical or conceptual aspects of ______

Accepted Answer

Properties, Objects

Question 5

Select all terms used in the flow diagram

Accepted Answer

Challenge

Question 6

In a game system, objects are defined by...

Accepted Answer

properties, behaviors, and relationships

Question 7

Roger Callois wrote the book...

Accepted Answer

Man, Play, and Games

Question 8

Economies have ___ while metaeconomies have ___

Accepted Answer

trading within the game, trading outside the game

Question 9

What is emergence in game systems?

Accepted Answer

Combination of simple rules yielding complex results

Question 10

Jenova Chen was inspired by…???

Accepted Answer

Joseph Campbell’s monomyth

Question 11

The basic controls of a game system are directly related to its...

Accepted Answer

Pyhsical Design

Question 12

Feedback is the direct relationship between the output of an interaction and a change to another system element.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 13

Emergence is...

Accepted Answer

Simple rule sets that produce unexpected results.

Question 14

What is not a good reason to have hidden information?

Accepted Answer

To test the current skill level of a player

Question 15

Which of these is NOT an example of a flat charater?

Accepted Answer

Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine

Question 16

What involves dynamics surrounding the resources in a game?

Accepted Answer

Economy

Question 17

True or False player-created characters have a greater potential for empathy as story-driven characters.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 18

What is the first step to tuning a game system?

Accepted Answer

Test for internal completion

Question 19

The potential actions that an object might perform in a given state are?

Accepted Answer

Behaviors

Question 20

Why is it important to have negative feedback loops?

Accepted Answer

To help reinforce and balance gameplay ralationships

Question 21

In a simple market the amount of product is...

Accepted Answer

Fixed

Question 22

Area or terrain can be an object

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 23

Which describes complex bartering?

Accepted Answer

Controlled growth of product and no money supply

Question 24

A persistent economy that surpasses more than one game session is...

Accepted Answer

complex

Question 25

This type of player is curious about the world, loves to go adventuring; seeks outside boundaries physical or mental

Accepted Answer

The Explorer

Question 26

T/F. According to the Flow diagram: If the game is too challenging, the player will get bored

Accepted Answer

FALSE

Question 27

Media theorist Henry Jenkins writes, “more and more storytelling has become the art of…???

Accepted Answer

World Building

Question 28

which of these is NOT an example of a round character?

Accepted Answer

The Evil Step Mother

Question 29

What doesn't need to be considered when making a game's system?

Accepted Answer

The player's feeling when playing.

Question 30

The two Designer Perspectives at the end of the chapter included game designers….???

Accepted Answer

Dr. Ray Muzyka & Don Daglow

Question 31

Which game is not an example of a branching story structure?

Accepted Answer

Fall Guys

Question 32

What is a system?

Accepted Answer

a gorup of interellated pieces called objects

Question 33

_____ offers ways for players to influence the game while one step away from desired changes.

Accepted Answer

Indirect Control

Question 34

Which of these are methods of characterization?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

COMP440 Exam 2 Review

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COMP440 Exam 2 Review

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