Gaming Lessons 1 & 2

Helps you plan out every step of animation.

• Storyboard

• Flowchart

• Feeback

• Genre

A game that involves the use of dice or cards.

• Role-playing

• Chance

• Skill

• Prototype

Group problem-solving technique that involves all members of the group contributing ideas.

• Genre

• Role-playing

• Brainstorming

• Flowchart

Information or criticism that a developer is given to suggest ways to improve a design.

• Brainstorming

• Deconstructing

• Storyboard

• Feedback

The first operational model of a design such as a game.

• Prototype

• Storyboard

• Feedback

• Criteria

Describes the issues that limit your ability to reach goals, such as lack of tools and time.

• Storyboard

• Constraints

• Criteria

• Feedback

A programming structure that directs the computer to repeat a set of instructions, called a loop, until some condition is met. This includes the while, do/while and for statements. Also referred to as iteration structure or looping structure.

• Genre

• Repetition

• Logic

• Flowchart

A graphical diagrams that show the steps or decision process contained in an algorithm. It includes different symbols to represent the purpose or process of a particular step.

• Feedback

• Stporyboard

• Prototype

• Flowchart

A set of step-by-step instructions that must be executed in order to solve a problem or perform a task.

• Syntax

• Algorithm

• Debug

• Flowchart

To locate and correct errors in a computer program through testing.

• Debug

• Logic

• Syntax

• Runtime