Gaming Essentials (ICT) Review

Marissa would like to learn more about game design. Her teacher explains that the first step is to learn how the audience, elements and characters in a game work together. What is the best method for completing this first step?

• Ask your friends for feedback about your game ideas.

• Develop a game with multiple elements and characters.

• Analyze existing games by deconstructing them.

• Make a list of the characters in other games you have played.

Jason is playing a game in which players must maneuver around changing barriers and moving objects inside a maze. This is an example of which type of game?

• Chance

• Role playing

• Skill

• Board

Consider the following instructions for a game element:

- Move forward

- Repeat move forward

- 10 times

This is an example of which type of programming structure?

• Syntax

• Object

• Selection

• Looping

Consider the following instructions for a game element:

- Move forward

- If not at end, move forward

- Else stop

This is an example of which type of programming structure?

• Looping

• Selection

• Object

• Iteration

Harry learned how to design and build computer games from his programming foundations class in college and wants to tackle creating his first mobile app game. What essential tools does Harry need if he already has the skills?

• A mobile tablet, game engine software, and programming code.

• A storyboard, computer hardware, music and sound effects, and programming code.

• Programming code, game engine software, and game design.

• A computer hardware, game engine software, graphical art design application, and programming code.

Jackson has brainstormed several ideas for his game. He is now trying to plan the scenes, animations and character interactions. Which step in the game design should Jackson complete to help him develop his ideas?

• Create a storyboard.

• Hire a programmer.

• Develop the game prototype.

• Brainstorm more game ideas.

Jacob wants to introduce a new game to Andres where they can challenge each other's skills and add other players to compete. This game, called "Words with Friends", can also be played via social media and its objective is to see who is the smartest and fastest at creating words out of random letters. What role does this game have in today's society?

• Social networking

• Recreation

• Education

• Therapy

The game developer and the game designer are meeting to discuss the addition of new characters to the "Animal Hunt" game that has been created. But, both individuals are unsure of where to include the addition of the Rhino, T-Rex, and Fox characters. The team decides to look back at the storyline and the different scenes created to see where these new characters best fit in the game. What storyline document is the developer and game designer referring to?

• Prototype

• Storyboard

• Wireframe

• Feedback

In programming languages, character, string, integer, floating-point and Boolean and all examples of:

• expressions

• methods

• comparison operators

• variable data types

Which step in the design process is used to help plan out every step of the game animation?

• Analysis

• Outline

• Storyboard

• Deconstruction