Exam 10: Video Game Programming

____ with special skills create the artwork for a video game.

The first commercial video games from Magnavox and Atari appeared in the 1950s.

Method variables are best used to keep track of the time or points for a person playing a game.

In the video game industry, physics programmers are responsible for the overall quality of video games and the correctness of the underlying software.

Game designers, especially lead designers, work closely with producers to manage the game development project.

Unlike the movie industry, composers, musicians, voice-over artists, and sound engineers do not have a role in the development of modern video games.

Real-world environments can be simulated on a computer as the basis of a game.

A ____ is a person who takes a concept or idea for a game and develops it into a plan for the overall play of a game, including the game's general theme, setting or environment, objectives, rules of play, structure, and so on.

Properties of objects can be used to keep track of scores associated with objects.

A board game involves moving pieces on a board that is usually marked with squares.

____ work with graphic artists to create new graphical elements for games and to implement the graphics created by the artists.

In many modern video game genres, ____ are responsible for developing the script and describing the action or flow of the game.

____ is a branch of computer science devoted to the development of software that can mimic human intelligence in a computer, especially human perception and decision making.

At its heart, a video game development project is a software development project requiring people with software engineering and programming skills.

____ programmers create and maintain the software used for networked versions of video games, particularly for MMORPGs played over the Internet.

With a graphical user interface, users communicate with the computer by giving it individual commands, usually by typing them on a keyboard.

Pacman and its variations are the most popular sports games.

In the world of video game production, the graphics artist has overall responsibility for the development team and reports to a company's senior management.

____, such as Doom, Halo, and Quake, place the player in the role of a character in a virtual environment in which they shoot as they move through the environment.

The path that a ball takes after being thrown, is a curve called a ____.