TCH071 Game Design 1 - Quiz Review 2

What core components are involved with all games?

• Player actions, humor, rewards, and coins

• Player goals and actions, rules, and challenges

• Challenges, riddles, mind-binders, and tasks

• Doritos, Mountain Dew, and lo-fi music playlists

Answer explanation

All games are to be understood as a structured, rule-based form of play and make use of these four main components: goals, actions, rules, and challenges.

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

• Rules

• Feedback

• The game development overlords

• Algorithms

Answer explanation

Rules are the foundation of any game - digital or otherwise.

Rules give games structure by telling players what they can and cannot do, as well as defining the consequences of their in-game actions.

What is an NPC?

• A very specific type of in-game weapon that is difficult to obtain

• A decorative, stationary item in the game, often with magical powers

• A character that interacts with the players, but is not controlled by a human

• An industrial food-saving device named after a bird of the artic, often called a Nice Penguin Cooler

Answer explanation

NPCs (non-playable characters) are one of the most common forms of artificial intelligence in a game.

They are not controlled by a human and usually assist with advancing a game's story or assisting players with tasks.

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

• Color and sound

• Challenges and conflict

• Weapon choice and scenery

• When you find all the studs in a LEGO game

Answer explanation

For games to be interesting, players need to face some kind of resistance (challenges).

When designing challenges, they should not be too easy or too difficult.

Dakota plays several instruments, loves to sing, and composes music for fun. The life-long music lover has never been very good at video games but is interested in giving them a try. What genre of video game would most likely be a good fit for Dakota?

• The adventure genre

• The sports genre

• The rhythm genre

• We can assume Dakota will never enjoy a video game in her life

Answer explanation

As a life-long music lover, we can assume Dakota would enjoy games in the rhythm genre as the main component is...music!

As a game designer, your goal is get players to feel like your game is the whole world and become fully engaged with the digital environment around them. If you successfully accomplish this, what have you mastered?

• Rougelike state

• Player immersion

• Second person perspective

• Making enough money to rent a wing of Notch's dirt mansion

Answer explanation

As a developer, your goal is to immerse players in the virtual world you have created!

Player immersion is a state of deep engagement the player has with a game that allows them to fully invest their imagination in the artificial world.

Civilization V is a game that can be won a number of ways, including maximizing your civilization's diplomatic, scientific, or cultural standing, making it so the player is intensely focused on winning the game. This is an example of what type of immersion?

• Tactical immersion

• Strategic immersion

• Non-player immersion

• Roman immersion

Answer explanation

Civilization V is a strategy game.

Strategic immersion involves the player being intensely focused on winning the game and weighing their actions for maximizing victory.

Players should be encouraged to consider long-term outcomes and experiment with approaches towards victory.

What character perspective is popularly used in games where the designers want the player to experience gameplay through the eyes of the avatar?

• Second person perspective

• First person perspective

• Third person perspective

• Fresh, clear, well-seasoned perspective

Answer explanation

First person perspective allows players to see the world through the eyes of the main character.

Examples of games that use this perspective: Call of Duty, Valorant, and Mirror's Edge

What genre of games involves gameplay that is designed to simulate real-world or fictionalized activities such as flying a plane or managing a city, and often requires resource management?

• Simulation games

• Puzzle games

• Adventure games

• Real-life games

Answer explanation

Simulation games is a broad category where the gameplay is designed to simulate real-world activities, sometimes in an extremely stylized way.

What is the catch-up mechanic used for in video games?

• To create an immersive quality in the gameplay

• To give losing players a fighting chance to catch up to the leader

• To allow each player an opportunity to take a turn and show off their skills

• A chance to spray ketchup over everyone who is ahead of you

Answer explanation

The catch-up mechanic is used to give the "underdog" players a chance to catch up to the leaders. This is usually in the form of a score-boost or an item (for example, the blue shell in Mario Kart).