Objects
Sound
Code
Menu Bar
Vocabulary
100
Receives programming and can be placed in a room, while Sprites cannot.
What is an object?
100
An action that can be added as background or as part of an action.
What is sound?
100
Words and symbols the computer can understand.
What is code?
100
Contains pull down menus, beginning on the left with the File pull-down menu and ending with the Help pull down menu.
What is the Menu Bar?
100
Where you place game objects to create a scene in other types of two-dimensional (2D) game-design software.
What is a room?
200
Does not move it just sits in the same place during gameplay.
What are static objects?
200
Small pieces of sound used in programming.
What are sound effects?
200
Similar to a verbal language, this is the written language only the computer can understand.
What is a programming language?
200
Located below the menu bar, this contains buttons used to start a command.
What is the Tool Bar?
200
Two-dimensional images have only height and width dimensions (x and Y).
What is a sprite?
300
This type of object cannot be interacted with during gameplay.
What are background objects?
300
A long sound file.
What is Music?
300
List of computer commands.
What is a script?
300
These are small images, on the buttons that help identify what command will start when the button is clicked.
What are icons?
300
Mouse and keyboard will be the input devices for this.
What is the user interface?
400
Each time you place an object in a room.
What is an instance?
400
A short sound file.
What is a sample?
400
The process of changing computer codes, scripts, and other programming into a file that can run on a computer.
What is compiling?
400
Do this with the cursor over a button (without clicking), the name of the command appears next to the cursor as help text.
What is Hovering?
400
Does not move it just sits in the same place during gameplay.
What is a static object?
500
This type of object can be interacted with during gameplay.
What is an Active object?
500
Most common types used in games are MP3, Wav, and this format.
What is MIDI?
500
Program file that tells the computer exactly what it is to do.
What is an Executable File?
500
These are all of the game parts stored in a folder tree called the Resource Tree.
What are assets?
500
This type of object can't be interacted with during gameplay.
What is a background object?
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