TCH071 Game Design Quiz 4 Review

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

• gameplay innovation

• player immersion

• truth in storytelling

• games-as-art

The graphical representation of the user’s character or alter-ego is their:

• eidolon

• voxel

• avatar

• animus

In designer Tracy Fullerton’s scale of the relative consequence of different types of decisions, which of the following kinds of decisions is most consequential?

• minor

• important

• inconsequential

• necessary

When a game allows you to pick party members from a large pool, each with different classes and roles but in which no single party combination is clearly superior to others, the game is using:

• intransitive relationships

• transitive relationships

• orthogonal relationships

• parallel relationships

A game that imposes a cost for using certain strategies, but which hides the cost from the player so that they have to discover it during the course of gameplay, is utilizing a:

• manifest cost

• relational cost

• subordinate cost

• shadow cost

A camera that features a consistent or fixed relationship between two axes, resulting in a "flat" view, is called:

• a first-person camera

• a side-view orthogonal camera

• an isometric camera

• a top-down orthogonal camera

Exerting power to achieve a goal is called:

• sympathy

• empathy

• autonomy

• agency

In terms of video game characters, players are generally more likely to be immersed when:

• the characters are attractive/cute and pay the player or the player character a lot of attention

• the characters are photorealistic

• the player can connect with characters that they feel have the power to fulfill their goals

• the characters behave ethically and follow a strict code of justice

A camera that shows the avatar the player is controlling is:

• first-person

• second-person

• third-person

• any of the above

Video games can be classified into _____ based on the type of gameplay they feature.

• genres

• consoles

• narratives

• roots