Game Lab Vocab
A graphic character with properties that describe its location, movement, and look.
What is a sprite?
Finding and fixing problems in an algorithm or program.
What is debugging?
This helps you create different effects when sprites collide.
What is isTouching?
A first or early model of a product that allows you to test assumptions before developing a final version.
What is a prototype?
To critically evaluate in a detailed and constructive manner.
What is critique?
Statements that only run under certain conditions.
What are conditionals?
How fast something is moving in a particular direction.
What is velocity?
Helps you understand why sprites are not doing what you expect.
What is sprite.debug?
An individual functional element of a software item.
What is a feature?
Someone who uses an object, including software and hardware.
What is a user?
A series of images that create the illusion of motion.
What is animation?
These are another way in which your sprites can interact. Name at least two.
What are collisions?
(Ex. collide, displace, bounce, and bounceOff)
Controls how fast and in what direction a sprite rotates.
What is rotationSpeed?
Information about reactions to a product, which is used as a basis for improvement.
What is feedback?
A physical unit of equipment that contains a computer or microcontroller.
What is a digital device?
The rate at which frames in an animation are shown.
What is the frame rate (or fps)?
This makes your sprite's movements appear more realistic.
What are multi-frame animations?
A named group of programming instructions (outside the draw loop).
What is the Function command?
Designing something using the specific needs and concerns of the user.
What is user-centered design?
The visual elements of a program through which a user controls or communicates with the application.
What is the user interface?
An algorithm that has been coded into something that can be run by a machine.
What is a program?
A simple representation of something more complex.
What is an abstraction?
This allows the function you created to work properly within your code.
What is the Call Function command?
How easy, efficient, and satisfying it is to use a human-made object or device.
What is usability?
In design, paying attention to a user's feelings and needs when designing a product.
What is empathy? :)
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