Video Game Design Midterm Exam
Questions And Answers
AAA List Games -
correct answer ✅these are video games that we see advertised
frequently and sold in a
great variety of non-games stores such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
Their budgets are
generally $20 million or more (much more for MMO's). The most
successful ones sell many
millions of copies. The most successful pay-to-play MMO has over
11 million subscribers.
abstract -
correct answer ✅Bearing no relation to/connection with the real
world. Checkers, Go, and chess
are abstract. (Chess is supposed to have reflected warfare at some
distant date, but that
reflection has been lost over time.) Although Monopoly really has
nothing to do with the
real world, it is intended to represent real estate dealings and is not
regarded as an
abstract game.
,Video Game Design Midterm Exam
Questions And Answers
accessiblility -
correct answer ✅an accessible game is easy to learn to play,
though not necessarily easy to
master. Chess is an accessible game that is hard to master.
Adapter -
correct answer ✅Some people play a particular way regardless of
which game
they're playing. The adapter is in between the planner and
improviser. He or she likes
things to change a fair bit from time to time or moment to
moment, but still wants to be
able to plan ahead a few turns or a few minutes as the case may be.
Agent -
correct answer ✅in game usage, an agent is a middleman between
game creators and game
publishers who helps arrange a deal and takes a percentage of the
revenue.
, Video Game Design Midterm Exam
Questions And Answers
AI (Artificial Intelligence) -
correct answer ✅artificial intelligence. A video game can be ruined
by weak artificial intelligence
because the computer opponent(s) will present no challenge and
no resemblance to human
players. A solitaire tabletop game provides a computer opponent of
sorts, but it cannot
possibly be sophisticated enough to be called an AI.
Analog -
correct answer ✅something that has a continuously changing
range of values or measurements, as
opposed to digital where there are discrete values that jump from
one to another. A slide
rule is an analog computer.
analysis paralysis -
correct answer ✅a player presented with too many decisions, or
too many plausible
choices for a decision, may effectively "freeze up" and do nothing
for quite a while. In a
Questions And Answers
AAA List Games -
correct answer ✅these are video games that we see advertised
frequently and sold in a
great variety of non-games stores such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart.
Their budgets are
generally $20 million or more (much more for MMO's). The most
successful ones sell many
millions of copies. The most successful pay-to-play MMO has over
11 million subscribers.
abstract -
correct answer ✅Bearing no relation to/connection with the real
world. Checkers, Go, and chess
are abstract. (Chess is supposed to have reflected warfare at some
distant date, but that
reflection has been lost over time.) Although Monopoly really has
nothing to do with the
real world, it is intended to represent real estate dealings and is not
regarded as an
abstract game.
,Video Game Design Midterm Exam
Questions And Answers
accessiblility -
correct answer ✅an accessible game is easy to learn to play,
though not necessarily easy to
master. Chess is an accessible game that is hard to master.
Adapter -
correct answer ✅Some people play a particular way regardless of
which game
they're playing. The adapter is in between the planner and
improviser. He or she likes
things to change a fair bit from time to time or moment to
moment, but still wants to be
able to plan ahead a few turns or a few minutes as the case may be.
Agent -
correct answer ✅in game usage, an agent is a middleman between
game creators and game
publishers who helps arrange a deal and takes a percentage of the
revenue.
, Video Game Design Midterm Exam
Questions And Answers
AI (Artificial Intelligence) -
correct answer ✅artificial intelligence. A video game can be ruined
by weak artificial intelligence
because the computer opponent(s) will present no challenge and
no resemblance to human
players. A solitaire tabletop game provides a computer opponent of
sorts, but it cannot
possibly be sophisticated enough to be called an AI.
Analog -
correct answer ✅something that has a continuously changing
range of values or measurements, as
opposed to digital where there are discrete values that jump from
one to another. A slide
rule is an analog computer.
analysis paralysis -
correct answer ✅a player presented with too many decisions, or
too many plausible
choices for a decision, may effectively "freeze up" and do nothing
for quite a while. In a
