Lesson 3 - Clickball

a software-based entertainment product that has a game environment, rules, and a victory condition.

• snap

• video game

• collision

• grid

a setting or world altered or designed to play a specific game activity

• game environment

• grid

• video game

• tuning

a constraint that determines what can or cannot happen in the game

• grid

• rule

• box

• collision

a point where the player has achieved the objective and is the winner of the game. Levels within the game may also have individual victory conditions.

• victory condition

• bounding box

• tuning

• video game

a tool used to help the design place objects on the frame in correct alignment with other objects.

• grid

• rule

• class

• tunig

feature moves, or snaps, objects to the closest grid point. The hotspot of each object placed on the frame will snap to the closest grid dot.

• snap

• grid

• rule

• game

the origin of an object

• grid

• hotspot

• rule

• class

a standard way of naming items. Following a naming convention makes it easy to identify the proper game asset during game construction.

• rule

• naming convention

• grid

• class

a major grouping

• class

• rule

• grid

• hotspot

a window or box dragged around a set of objects to select them. Any object completely contained inside the window will be selected.

• grid

• rule

• class

• marquee