Game Design

Game design is considered 

• a passion
• art
• engineering
• craft

The user interface takes the challenges that are generated by the core mechanics and turns them into graphics on the screen and sound in the speakers. 

• False
• True

The goal of a game is to entertain through play and designing a game requires careful planning and money.

• True
• False

A game includes both artistic and functional elements. It must be aesthetically pleasing but also must be done well and be enjoyable to play.

• True
• False

Our textbook's author supports using the ________________ to produce an enjoyable game, which, in turn, helps it to be a commercially successful one.

• commercial-design approach
• player-opponent approach
• craft-commercial approach
• player-centric approach

Factors that affect the commercial success of a game include:

• Marketing
• Distribution
• Experience of the development team
• All of the above

Professionalism is the willingness to work hard to do a good job because that is what you are paid for, regardless of whether you would choose to play your game for entertainment.

• True
• False

Player-centric game design is a philosophy of design in which the designer envisions a representative player of the game the wants to create.

• True
• False

When a company chooses to build a game for a particular market and to include certain elements in its design specifically to increase sales within that market, the game is said to be

• Player-centric
• Player-opponnet
• Market-driven
• Elegant

In many cases arcade games make money by getting the player to put in more coins. This helped equate

• "play" with "fun"
• "pay" with "fun"
• "hard" with "fun"
• "challenge" with "creativity"