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Video Game Design Foundations
On a separate sheet of paper or in a word processing document, answer each of
the following questions.
11. Briefly describe the action-reaction relationship in a video game.
12. What is the function of a logic statement?
13. How is a listener used to program the user interface?
14. How are triggers used to program game events?
15. The most basic example of a logic statement is the _____…_____ statement.
16. If a person slips on a banana peel and falls, the banana peel is the _____
and the fall is the _____.
17. In a video game, the formal term for an action is _____.
18. What is an event?
19. Which logical operators are used to have multiple conditions or events?
20. Which logical operator is used to initiate an event when a condition is not
met?
21. What are the two components of collision theory?
22. What is a collision statement?
23. If object B is placed at 0,0 relative to object A, where is object B?
24. List four different variable data types.
25. Describe how a tree organization format, such as the object library from
The Games Factory 2, is arranged.
Social Studies
1. Look at the historical events below. Research the cause-and-effect
relationship that lead to the end result. Write a logic statement and a half-
page summary of each action.
A. Beginning of World War I.
B. Sinking of the RMS Titanic.
C. Cuban Missile Crisis.
D. Emancipation Proclamation.
E. Development of RADAR.
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