Deck 10: Video Game Programming

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Platform games require the player to hit a target, as if shooting a gun.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Pacman and its variations are the most popular sports games.

Question 5

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

Question 6

Games based on music and dancing, such as Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero, are among the most popular games for game consoles, such as Wii and PlayStation.

Question 7

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.

Question 8

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

Question 9

All writers need to have a cultural awareness of the video game's target audience.

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

Graphics programmers generally need to have an understanding of physics as well as advanced math skills.

Question 13

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

Question 14

Video game testers are employed in the video game industry to examine games for both correctness and playability.

Question 15

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

Question 16

In positive scorekeeping, a player accumulates a number of points while playing a game, similar to the way score is kept in basketball or baseball.

Question 17

In negative scorekeeping, players start with a certain number of points and lose points as they make errors, or as time goes by.

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

Graphics are the visual images that people see when they play a video game.

Question 21

Graphics APIs allow programmers to include instructions for graphics programming in their software.

Question 22

Alice includes a built-in physics engine.

Question 23

Collision detection works by checking to see if one object overlaps another in a virtual space.

Question 24

Physics engines include software that will react to a collision when it occurs.

Question 25

A rocket becomes a projectile once its engine runs out of fuel.

Question 26

A(n) ____ is a game played on a video screen, controlled electronically using computer software.

A) abstract game
B) digital game
C) video game
D) network game

Question 27

A(n) ____ refers to a game that is played online with hundreds or thousands of people, each playing the role of a character in a virtual environment at the same time.

A) Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
B) Interactive Adventure Game
C) Virtual Casino Game
D) Distributed Cooperative Role-Playing Game

Question 28

A(n) ____ is a game in which the player is on a quest or adventure to solve a mystery, find a lost object, or complete some other goal that involves exploration and overcoming obstacles.

A) board game
B) shooter game
C) adventure game
D) casino game

Question 29

____, 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.

A) First-person shooter games
B) Board games
C) Adventure games
D) Casino games

Question 30

In the video game industry, a ____ is in charge of a game development project.

A) graphics artist
B) producer
C) physics programmer
D) quality assurance specialist

Question 31

A ____ should have a solid business background and excellent management skills, especially the ability to manage a large team of diverse people.

A) graphics artist
B) sound engineer
C) script writer
D) video game producer

Question 32

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.

A) script writer
B) game designer
C) graphics artist
D) producer

Question 33

In the video game industry, ____ must be aware of constraints imposed by the budget, the technology available, and the skills of the team, and should have an awareness of available resources.

A) script writers
B) game designers
C) graphics artists
D) quality assurance specialists

Question 34

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

A) game designers
B) producers
C) writers
D) project managers

Question 35

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

A) Sound engineers
B) Quality assurance specialists
C) Business managers
D) Graphic artists

Question 36

A(n) ____ is a software tool that allows developers to assemble video games from existing objects and methods.

A) game engine
B) Application Programmer Interface
C) database
D) user interface

Question 37

____is a specialized area of computing dealing with the development of user interface hardware and software.

A) Graphics programming
B) Data mining
C) Human Computer-Interaction
D) Artificial Intelligence

Question 38

____ develop the logic in a game, especially for strategy games in which a user may play against the computer.

A) Artificial Intelligence programmers
B) Graphics programmers
C) Math programmers
D) Physics programmers

Question 39

____ 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.

A) Data mining
B) Computer architecture
C) Artificial Intelligence
D) Cybernetics

Question 40

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

A) Application programmers
B) Graphics programmers
C) Data communications programmers
D) Human-Computer Interaction programmers

Question 41

____ implement software that simulates the movement of objects in the real world, which are affected by things like gravity and the collision of one object with another.

A) Graphics programmers
B) Human-Computer Interaction programmers
C) Physics programmers
D) Data communications programmers

Question 42

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

A) Data communications
B) Graphics
C) Physics
D) Human-Computer Interaction

Question 43

____ test video game software under all possible circumstances to make sure that it works properly.

A) Physics programmers
B) Data communications programmers
C) Software quality assurance specialists
D) Graphics programmers

Question 44

A(n) ____ provides controls for a game so that the user can play the game.

A) game engine
B) user interface
C) math engine
D) physics engine

Question 45

The term ____ is used to refer to software that provides expanded capabilities for computer programmers.

A) command-driven interface
B) Application Programmer Interface
C) development kit
D) graphical user interface

Question 46

A(n) ____ is a set of encapsulated software components that perform the necessary math and render objects for video games, simulations, and other software.

A) math engine
B) physics engine
C) graphics engine
D) Application Programmer Interface

Question 47

____ have objects and methods that address the physics of moving objects, including the effects of gravity, friction, objects bumping into one another, wind resistance, and fluid dynamics, so that objects in a video game will act like objects in the real world.

A) Graphics engines
B) Physics engines
C) Application Programmer Interfaces
D) Math engines

Question 48

Detecting when objects in a virtual world collide with one another is referred to as ____.

A) bump detection
B) ballistics
C) collision detection
D) accident detection

Question 49

Determining the paths of objects, such as baseballs, as they fly through the air is referred to as ____.

A) ballistics
B) motion detection
C) pathfinding
D) line tracing

Question 50

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

A) parabola
B) rhombus
C) rotation
D) perimeter