Unit 2- What is a Game?

What core components are involved with all games?

• player actions, humor, rewards, coins

• player goals and actions, rules, challenges

• challenges, riddles, mind-benders, tasks

• injury, re-birth, rules, questions

What are examples of feedback in a video game?

• a score or progress bar or the player's knowledge of the status of their objective

• a running list of the top players in the online game-sphere that have achieved the highest scores of all-time

• interesting costume choices or hairstyles that the player chooses for their character

• a video recap of the task recently completed by the player

What are the foundations of any game system that control what the players can or cannot do in the game, as well as the penalties, rewards, and other consequences that result from the players' actions?

• Algorithms

• Tasks

• Feedback

• Rules

What do we call any element within a computer program, such as a computer game, which simulates decision-making based on algorithms defined by game designers and programmers?

• non-player characters (NPCs)

• artificial intelligence (AI)

• avatar

• roguelikes

What component of a game makes victories feel earned and helps the player become psychologically engaged by the play experience?

• color and sound

• challenges or conflicts

• weapon choice and scenery

• character backstory and history

Writing X's and O's in Tic-Tac-Toe, tilting tiles in Tetris, or rolling the dice and moving your game piece in Monopoly are all examples of what?

• story arc

• Gameplay

• Roguelikes

• Mechanics

What genre of video games includes platform games and shooter, fighting, or survival games with intense, simulated physical challenges that require a lot of fine motor-skills and hand-eye coordination?

• puzzle games

• adventure games

• simulation games

• action games

Tactical immersion is when the player is so absorbed in the action that nothing else—the story, the artwork—matters except surviving the next challenge.

• True

• False

Games are to be understood as a structured, rule-based form of play.

• True

• False

Although computers think only in binary language, what are they able to use to create a sequence of numbers that bear the characteristics of a statistically random set of numbers?

• non-player characters (NPGs)

• game mechanics

• pseudo-random number generators (PNGs)

• thought skills