What type of television is pictured in the image below?

The Magnavox Odyssey became the first commercially successful video game, ultimately sold 350,000 units, and subsequently began… what?

What was the first commercially successful, cartridge-based video game console that introduced the concept of housing game software separate to the game console, making the release of new games cheaper?

The first video games date back to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. What dates do the first generation of video games span across?

Senet is one of oldest games in history and dates all the way back to when?

What is a bitmap?

Raster graphics use the CRT's beam to rapidly sweep the screen with a series of lines which creates a grid, dividing the screen into a network of tiny squares. What are these tiny squares called?

Raster graphics are never used in video games that are made today because they are unable to produce complex images.

How are 2D objects defined?

What does game designer and scholar Dr. Jane McGonigal say that players are informed of from the feedback system in a game?

What core components are involved with all games?

How is gameplay defined?

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?

In the third-person perspective, the game shows the world from the perspective of what?

What game mechanic is key to any game with an economic component and prominently featured in genres such as real-time strategy games, town and city builders, war games, and simulation games?

Feedback is a promise to players that their goal is achievable, which provides motivation to keep playing.

Third-person perspective is especially popular in games with a prominent shooting mechanic, such as Halo or Call of Duty.

A programming language is a formal system of coded commands that provide instructions for a computer.

What term refers to the collection of computer instructions and other files that constitute a piece of software?

During what stage in game development do quality assurance team members begin testing the game and reporting bugs that the rest of the team then works on fixing?

When creating a prototype and using it to test the game mechanics, what are you specifically testing and attempting to determine about your game mechanics?

When testing your video game, what are the benchmarks that define your test's success called?

What type of immersion involves the player being so absorbed in the action from second to second that nothing else matters except surviving the next challenge?

With the Rule of 99 inventory system, a player can have as many inventory items as required, but they will have limited what?

The iterative process is completely unique to game design and development.

A weighted inventory system is often tied into player advancement.

Typically, what is a pitch followed by?

How does a Game Design Document expand on the Game Concept Document?

Why is the GDD useful for game artists?

The title page of your team's Game Design Document includes more than just the actual title of your game. What other information is important to include on this page?

What portion of the GDD includes a description of how each screen, such as start screens, menus, popups, or options pages, flows into the next and how they relate to each other as well as a description of each screen, in terms of its purpose and corresponding functions within the game system?

What should be included in the development team credits section of your GDD?

The game overview section of your GDD is written as a summary of the whole game.

Game progression is the underlying structure of a game level or mission in terms of layout, presentation of obstacles, and options for movement.

Your overall aim is to produce an interface that is as 'quiet' as possible, so as not to snap players out of their immersed state.

What component of, or tool used in, game design encompasses all elements that allow the user to provide input and receive feedback from the software?

Input elements are the component of the user interface that communicate information to the player.

What do we call the overall perception and emotional response that the player has while playing your game?

Characters can only be constructed as one specific archetype.

Storytelling is still largely a passive experience where the user has no control over how the story plays out; video games, on the other hand, are about creating what?

How do we refer to an entity within an industry which handles laws of that industry rather than turning them over to a government authority or other organization?

What do we call a system by which a publisher will give a developer a percentage of all profits from sales?

It is unnecessary to get a head start on marketing since most aspects of marketing are very simple and take no time to develop.

The ethical considerations of designing a game are far reaching, but they do not include the subject matter itself.

What type of digital distribution option offers a submission process that is easier than other distribution channels and allows developers to share their games without hosting them themselves?

Whereas a copyright refers to the ownership of an idea, a patent refers to an invention and is a kind of intellectual property.

Video game piracy is theft because it robs the developer of hard earned revenue.

Scenes are one of the components of a project you create, such as the levels in the game, so you will need to save them before they are assigned a name.

A query is a command that asks for information and receives a response.

An object's position is based on its x and y coordinates, but the z coordinate is irrelevant.

A variable defines the attributes of the inputs and signals to the computer so that it knows whether to expect alphanumeric characters, or integers to be entered, or some other type of data.

Binary is a first-generation programming language that had only 0s and 1s in its vocabulary.

CamelCase means that you leave lots of spaces and punctuation between words, and never capitalize any of the words.

What view in the Unity^® software allows you to see your game and physically manipulate the assets in your scene by using your mouse and a few keyboard keys?

The hierarchy view, which shows you what is in your current scene or level, can be very useful for doing what?

What is the quantity of matter in an object referred to as?

What is a mesh of an object's outline that is used to detect if the object has come into contact with something else called?

When adding a cube to your playfield, your new cube will come into the scene with its center at the origin; this causes it to appear half sunken into the plane, which is also called what?

What is the area in which the game action occurs known as?