Unit 8 Computer Games Development Assignment 1 (Distinction)

Shooter {Ans: Gaming genre. Shoot em' Up or shooter games involve shooting players or NPCs or destroying objects.}PMP {Ans: Portable Media Player}Power Supply {Ans: A device that provides power to a computer system.}DAC {Ans: Digital to Analog Converter}Authoring Tools {Ans: Software used to create multimedia presentations.}Dome Projection System {Ans: Provides a 3-D immersive view to games to improve the gaming experience.}Year that the original XBox was first released {Ans: 2000. Microsoft based its first console on PC electronic architecture.}Gaming Keyboard {Ans: A keyboard designed specifically for users who enjoy playing games on the computer. These allow multiple key inputs.}Platform {Ans: Game genre. Platform games are also referred to as platformers or side scrollers and are games in which the background scrolls and the player jumps from platform to platform by running and jumping. Examples - Donkey Kong, Mario, Sonic the Hedgehog etc. (SQA)}D-Pad {Ans: A flat thumb-controlled pad, short for directional pad.}RPG {Ans: Gaming genre - Role-Playing Game. These are games in which the player's character has skills and abilities represented by statistics. Gameplay involves the characters exploring and completing quests that build up their statistics and possessions. (SQA)}Adobe