Game Design Midterm

A plan of action used to achieve a goal is known as:

• gameplay

• game mechanics

• mastery

• strategy

An “AI” could be used in:

• only competitive games

• only cooperative games

• both types of games

• neither type of game

Which of the following is an example of gameplay in a video game?

• the art style of a game

• the player interacting with the game world and game mechanics

• the personalities of the characters.

Mastery is

• reacting poorly to opponents’ decisions.

• learning all the rules of a game.

• a case of being consistently lucky.

• the state of complete skill, knowledge, and accomplishment.

Most games contain elements of both chance and skill.

• True

• False

Older monitors that used a vacuum tube to generate a focused electron light beam are called:

• transistor tubes

• cathode ray tubes

• electromagnetic tubes

• plasma screen tubes

One of the best-selling video game consoles of the late 1900s was:

• the Coleco Telstar

• Bally’s Astrocade

• the Fairchild Video Entertainment System

• the Atari 2600

In gaming, “rendering” refers to:

• writing and re-writing data onto a single chip

• generating scripts to determine how objects and characters move

• taking apart code to find out how a game runs

• generating visuals

Read-only memory chips are used to

• record high scores, and later, “save slots” for longer games

• translate input from players into visual output

• store data that cannot be modified

• secure game code so that it can’t be copied or pirated

Today’s average computer has _____ times the processing speed of an old Pac-Man machine.

• 10

• 100

• 1000

• 10,000