Vocab (Gaming Essentials, (ICT) )

What does Brainstorming (gaming) mean?

• An organized game development group that creates related spontaneous ideas and solutions.

• Thinking about something.

• Forget what you have recently forgotten.

What does chance (game) mean?

• Never being lucky (Can't never win)

• Having a risk of playing a role in a game.

• Luck or possibility plays a role in determining the outcome of the game.

What does constraints mean?

• The limitations of a development team’s ability to meet the goals it set out for the game

• Reaching your goal

• Having a limit that's easy to reach

What is a criteria?

• The characteristics of the game that will lead to a development team’s goals.

• Players assume the identities of characters and act out or base decisions on their character.

• Luck or possibility plays a role in determining the outcome of the game.

• Actions you want someone to do, but yet they don't.

What does deconstructing mean?

• Analyzing an existing game to learn how the audience, elements and characters in a game work together.

• A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

• a possibility of something happening.

What does feedback mean?

• The particular type or category of a computer-based video game

• Analyzing an existing game.

• Suggestions and ideas for improving or refining the game or issues with playing the game.

What does genre mean?

• Luck or possibility plays a role in determining the outcome of the game.

• Images are arranged in the order of the narrative and help the team plan the sequence of events in the game’s animation.

• The particular type or category of a computer-based video game

What does prototype mean?

• The first functional example of a game, or “first draft”. It offers a platform for individuals to play and test a game for the first time and offer their feedback for improvement.

• Giving un-important feedback to someone.

• Assuming the roles of others in games.

What does role-playing (game) mean?

• Suggestions and ideas for improving or refining the game or issues with playing the game

• Players assume the identities of characters and act out or base decisions on their character.

• The particular type or category of a computer-based video game

What doe skill mean?

• The limitations of a development team’s ability to meet the goals it set out for the game

• An organized game development group creates related spontaneous ideas and solutions.

• The player's abilities determines the outcome of the game.