2nd year CPAS Review part 2

Makes the user's interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms of accomplishing user goals

• Interface designer

• Level designer

• Third-party

  developer

• Distribution cost

Measures the amount of return on an investment relative to the investment's cost.

• ROI

  (return on investment)

• Alpha

• Quality assurance

• Audio director

Primarily done among development team, product and marketing managers.

• flaw

• Play testing

• Game Publisher

• Investors

Refers to the fact that everything has been implemented, and many critical gameplay/functionality issues and bugs have been resolved (but there are small bugs still lingering; even wider audience, nearly public.

• Alpha

• Bug

• Beta

• Flaw

Refers to the first that everything has been implemented, but there are many bugs and gameplay/ functionality issues; testing audience widens to senior-level personnel in company.

• Bug

• Beta

• Flaw

• Alpha

Responsible for the entire soundtrack, from dialogue, ambience, sound effects and music.

• Audio Director

• Producer

• Al Programmer

• Bug

Test the individual game components, primarily done internally, within a development team.

• Licenses

• Royalties

• System testing

• Play testing

The leader and the the group members participate in making the decisions and carrying them out together.

• Autocratic

• Democratid

• Laissez-Faire

• Paternalistic

The professional term for testing.

• Quality Assurance (QA)

• ROI

  (Return on Investment)

• Third-party developer

• Investors

They take on responsibilities delegated to them by the producer. They work on the development and pre-production stages, and on the production.

• Administrative expense

• Associate or Assistant producer

• Producer

• Executive Producer