History
This 18-year-old FPS series has had 24 releases and is the third biggest franchise in the world.
Call of Duty
This programmer was responsible for Doom and now works in VR.
John Carmack
Principle of 2D animation: Squash and ____.
Stretch
Game engine used in the GDM tutorials.
Unity
GDM's longest running and biggest sponsor.
Ubisoft
The console with the highest total sales.
PlayStation 2
This Japanese developer is credited with inventing the stealth genre.
Hideo Kojima
Texture used to simulate detailed lights and shadows on 3D models.
Normal map
The code to get the time since last frame in Unity.
Time.deltaTime
Robin's age.
19
This video game would popularize open worlds in gaming.
Grand Theft Auto 3
This studio is famous for their immersive story-driven games, with their latest release involving a timeloop.
Arkane Studios
Colour scheme involving adjacent (i.e. on the colour wheel) colours.
Analogous
Scripting language used by the Godot engine.
GDScript (Python)
The first year that McGameJam was held.
2016
This was the first widespread home gaming console in the USA.
Atari 2600
This developer is well-known for a Kickstarter-funded, Earthbound-inspired indie darling.
Toby Fox
The process of converting high-poly meshes into performant, game-ready models.
Retopology
Can be used to run code asynchronously.
Coroutine
Coffin Mall
This video game is the poster child of the video game crash of 1983 and had copies buried in the desert.
E.T.
This Canadian indie developer is responsible for a 2D platformer about climbing a mountain.
Maddy Thorson
This post-processing effect splits the red, green, and blue colour channels to mimic a camera lens artifact.
Chromatic abberation
An alternative to Object-Oriented Programming that separates data and behaviour.
Entity Component System
The names of five GDM execs.
Robin, Kaya, Mika, Roey, Seiba, Sid, Sophearah, Feiyang