Game Engines
What are the two types of technology that will be used to create, or render, images?
Raster and Vector
Collaboratively build platforms that provide all the game developers with sophisticated tools.
Game Engines
____ ____ can be used to train new employees
Virtual Reality
Spacewar! by Steve Russel was created to show off the ___ ____, or the the speed at which a computer, like the PDP-1, can carry out the operations of a program.
Processing Power
How are computer hardware and computer software differentiated?
Hardware consists of the physical components of computers, and it can be pricey, while software is the part of a computer system that contains encoded information or instructions for the hardware
What game engine has really powerful visual rendering features available?
____ are vacuum tubes that use heat to generate a focused electron light beam that creates a bright and colorful image on the screen.
CRT -- Cathode Ray Tube
How can integrating play into the workplace help employees?
Fosters creativity and imagination, allowing people to have fun with each other while reducing stress
Considered ahead of its time, the ____ ____ supported modem-based internet gaming and boasted some truly impressive games. Hint: It flopped and was discontinued in 2001
Dreamcast
Why would a game designer make the music speed up at certain points?
It was designed to trigger rising panic in the player and make the game more challenging.
I am the most popular game design engine available today. My personal version is available for free. What game engine am I?
Unity
Devices that hook up to a TV or other display and are designed to play video games
Game Console
How much revenue was generated by the video game industry in 2017?
$117 billion
Rushing a game, like ET, is a cautionary tale about what?
the dangers of rushing a game’s development to meet marketing deadlines
Why did I, Robot, fail in 1983? (three dimensional game)
Sometimes technology has to evolve at a slower pace so that people can get used to it
Many 2D game engines provide visual programming language, which means that you can describe what you are trying to do using what instead of computer code?
illustrations
How are 2d objects defined?
by their position on the X- (horizontal) and Y- (vertical) axes
True/False
PlayStation® 3 is notable for being the first console to use Blu-ray®disks as its game storage medium.
True
In 1971, Nutting Associates released Computer Space—the first official, coin-gobbling arcade machine which failed. Why?
a number of design flaws
Apple II came fully assembled, connected to a TV monitor, had 16 colors, and came equipped with what else?
Sound and the first full-version of an operating system
Taylor is working on designing a video game for a college class and needs a program to help create textures and particle effects in a 3D game. Paying for a program like Photoshop or Illustrator is not an option because of the high cost. What is a free and open-source alternative that Taylor could use?
GIMP or Inkscape
Pac-Man® and the ghosts in Space Invaders® are examples of bitmapped images that appear to move across the screen when, in reality, they are being continuously redrawn at new coordinates. What are these images called?
sprites
True/False
The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer by Panasonic® pitched itself as a game console and a media player.
True
In order to create the classic game Tennis for Two, what did William Higinbotham hook up to an analog computer?
an oscilloscope
The first coin-operated computer game was:
Computer Space