History
Developers
Graphics
Programming
Game Dev McGill
100

This 18-year-old FPS series has had 24 releases and is the third biggest franchise in the world.

Call of Duty

100

This programmer was responsible for Doom and now works in VR.

John Carmack

100

Principle of 2D animation: Squash and ____.

Stretch

100

Game engine used in the GDM tutorials.

Unity

100

GDM's longest running and biggest sponsor.

Ubisoft

200

The console with the highest total sales.

PlayStation 2

200

This Japanese developer is credited with inventing the stealth genre.

Hideo Kojima

200

Texture used to simulate detailed lights and shadows on 3D models.

Normal map

200

The code to get the time since last frame in Unity.

Time.deltaTime

200

Robin's age.

19

300

This video game would popularize open worlds in gaming.

Grand Theft Auto 3

300

This studio is famous for their immersive story-driven games, with their latest release involving a timeloop.

Arkane Studios

300

Colour scheme involving adjacent (i.e. on the colour wheel) colours.

Analogous

300

Scripting language used by the Godot engine.

GDScript (Python)

300

The first year that McGameJam was held.

2016

400

This was the first widespread home gaming console in the USA.

Atari 2600

400

This developer is well-known for a Kickstarter-funded, Earthbound-inspired indie darling.

Toby Fox

400

The process of converting high-poly meshes into performant, game-ready models.

Retopology

400

Can be used to run code asynchronously.

Coroutine

400
Kaya's latest released game.

Coffin Mall

500

This video game is the poster child of the video game crash of 1983 and had copies buried in the desert.

E.T.

500

This Canadian indie developer is responsible for a 2D platformer about climbing a mountain.

Maddy Thorson

500

This post-processing effect splits the red, green, and blue colour channels to mimic a camera lens artifact.

Chromatic abberation

500

An alternative to Object-Oriented Programming that separates data and behaviour.

Entity Component System

500

The names of five GDM execs.

Robin, Kaya, Mika, Roey, Seiba, Sid, Sophearah, Feiyang