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Week 1 Flashcards

1
Q

Games which are advertised frequently and have budgets over $20

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AAA list games

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2
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Video games made to resemble board games or board games made to resemble video games

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Convergence

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3
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The very first build that is shared with testers

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Alpha

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4
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Parts of your game

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Components

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5
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Whether the game is easy to play or requires more experience

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Depth

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6
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Analysis Paralysis When a player is presented with to many choices or decisions

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Analysis Paralysis

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7
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Avatar Represents the player in the game (or sprite)

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Avatar

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8
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Probability distribution where some events are more likely to occur than others

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Bell Curve

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9
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Making choices that will affect the rest of you game play.

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Decision making

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10
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Results like play actions being put into motion

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Dynamics

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11
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Movie inserted into the video game

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Cinematic

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12
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Easy to learn and easy to play, yet not always easy to master

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Accessibility

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13
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Middle man between the creator and publisher

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Agent

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14
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When a player is not actually participating

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Downtime

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15
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The profession of the character that says what he or she can and cannot do

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Character class

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16
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A game played to relax not to beat or win

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Casual gaming

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17
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Very close to final design but still being tested

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Beta

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18
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The key details or selling points of the game

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Features list

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19
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The extent to which the game circumstances change over time

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Fluidity

20
Q

Creating the content and the rules of the game

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Game design

21
Q

Development software that game designers use to manage art, sound, and code

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Game engine

22
Q

Writing of the dialogue, text, and story within worlds

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Game writing

23
Q

Sub category of games with well defined methods and appeal to players

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Genre

24
Q

A desired result or plan that you set to achieve

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Goals

25
Q

The visual aspects of a game, particularly the art

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Graphics

26
Q

Everything on the screen that the user will see

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Graphical Interface

27
Q

Feeling like you are really in the game as though you are really there

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Immersion

28
Q

Identifiable characters or stories that are owned by an individual or company

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Intellectual Property

29
Q

Something that is repeated over and over

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Iterative

30
Q

The defined starting and ending points

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Length

31
Q

Maps and placements of objects and challenges within those maps

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Level of Design

32
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Does not require decision making, game is based only on luck

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Luck of the draw

33
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How you move, earn points, gain resources, etc. Within the game

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Mechanics

34
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A strong form of protection for an intellectual property

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Patent

35
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A balanced game is one that is fail and each player has an equal chance of winning

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Play balance

36
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When the action of one player immediately affects at least one other players situation

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Player interaction

37
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People who play on unfinished game to find errors, inconsistencies or other issues

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Play testers

38
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Provides an overview of the game and its learning goals

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Design document

39
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Law that protects creation

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Copyright

40
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A game that has no connection or nothing to do with the real world

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Abstract

41
Q

Brief description and/or presentation of a game or a game concept designed to secure funding

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PItch

42
Q

The likely hood that something will happen

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Probability

43
Q

An early unfinished version of the game

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Prototype

44
Q

companies that manufacture and distribute a game

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Publishers

45
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Occurences in the game that the players have no control over

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