Understanding Game Design
Understand Hardware
Understand Graphics
Understand Animation
Understanding Windows Phone
100
What are 3 typical characteristics of First-Person Shooter (FPS) games?
What is Mulitplayer mode, point of view of the player, and one or more ranged weapons.
100
Which 3 input devices are supported by XNA Framework on the Xbox 360 platform? (Choose Three)
What is gamepad, keyboard, and microphone
100
Which three matrices are required to draw a three-dimensional scene?
What is World Matrix, View Matrix, and Projection Matrix
100
You plan to use a matrix transform to alter a 3D matrix. Which changes can be achieved by doing this?
What is Rotation, Scaling, and Translation
100
Which 3 multi-touch input gestures would be the best choice in a point-and-shoot game on Windows Phone?
What is Free Drag, Pinch, and Pan
200
classes and methods that help to load and play the video in a game.
What are Video class, VideoPlayer class, Content.Load Method
200
Which 3 actions does the Kinect input device allow the developer to perform? (Choose three)
What is Record video, Record Audio, and Recognize moves
200
Which DirectX component takes care of audio-video streaming, compression, and playback tasks?
What is DirectShow
200
You are creating a 3D World. You want to set the position and direction of your camera. Which matrix should you use.
What is View matrix
200
The purpose of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in gaming?
What is planning winning strategies, Path finding for characters and enemies, and controling non-player characters.
300
The property or method that verifies the Guide user interface is active?
What is Guide.IsVisible
300
Makes messaging easier on Xbox by connecting a small keyboard to the controller.
What is Chatpad input device on Xbox 360.
300
Which objects would you recommend to store in a save-game file?
What is the Players Avator name, The current position of the Avator, and the player's current score.
300
The main drawback of using a BoundSphere in collision detection.
What is BoundingSpheres may contain a lot empty space?
300
You are working on a 2D game that contains many colorful textures. You are working on developing this game for Windows Phone where the maximum size is 20mb. How can you reduce the storage size of these textures? (Choose two)
What is reduce the resolution of textures and using tile-based texture mapping?
400
The static property that you can use to determine if players are signed in to the local system?
What is Gamer.SignedInGamers
400
What is the ideal resolution for a windows phone 7 game?
What is 800 x 480 pixels
400
When would you use the HiDef rendering profile in XNA?
What is using all hardware capabilities without limits
400
Starting a combat phase when a player bumps into a monster is an example of...
What is Collision Response
400
How can you prepare your game to support graphics rendering on multiple platforms such as Windows Phone, Xbox, and Windows?
What is Individual Content Pipeline projects for each platform with a different content area.
500
Communicate using voice, text, or messaging
What is SignedInGamer.Privileges
500
Plays a sound that can be positioned and have its volume adjusted
What is SoundEffect class?
500
When would you recommend the Reach rendering profile in XNA?
What is to make your game compatible with Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox
500
The BoundingBox class provides a much lighter fit for non-rotated rectangular objects.
What is a benefit of using BoundingBox in collision detection?
500
Adjusts the resolution of BackBuffer to the physical screen resolution?
What is Hardware Scalar