Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Produce a glossary of terms specific to the methods and principles of Video Game Design and Video Game Terms. Using a provided template, you must research and gather definitions specific to provided glossary terms. Any definitions must be referenced with the URL link of the website you have obtained the definition.

You must also, where possible, provide specific details of how researched definitions relate to your own production practice.

Name: Clint Paris

RESEARCHED DEFINITION (provide short internet researched definition and URL link)

DESCRIBE THE RELEVANCE OF THE RESEARCHED TERM TO YOUR OWN PRODUCTION PRACTICE?

IMAGE SUPPORT (Provide an image and/or video link of said term being used in a game)

VIDEO GAMES / VIDEO GAME TESTING

Demo Demo is short for Demonstration. It's a brief section of the game, generally a full level in which you can test the games before making the decision on purchasing themhttps://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090423022627AA9nGkS

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Beta An unfinished version released to either the public a select few or whoever signs up to beta test it for bugs or glitches.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Beta

Alpha An alpha test is performed by the programmers themselves to ensure they got everything right in their eyes

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110119184650AAfwy7x

Pre-Alpha A development status given to a program or application that is usually not feature complete, and is not usually released to the public.

http://www.abbreviations.com/pre-alpha%20version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwmFU_L2k3M

Gold A game has "Gone Gold" when the final master copy has been produced at the developer and sent off for replication, packaging and shipment.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gone%20Gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk6cs6Elkbo

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Debug identify and remove errors from computer hardware or software

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=NqgJVM26L-yq8wfS7IBQ#q=definition+to+debug

Automation

The use or introduction of automatic equipment in a manufacturing or other process or facility.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=NqgJVM26L-yq8wfS7IBQ#q=definition+to+automation

White-Box Testing

A software testing technique whereby explicit knowledge of the internal workings of the item being tested are used to select the test data.Also known as glass box, structural, clear box and open box testing. A software testing technique whereby explicit knowledge of the internal workings of the item being tested are used to select the test data. Unlike black box testing, white box testing uses specific knowledge of programming code to examine outputs.http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/White_Box_Testing.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bJcvBLJViQ

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Bug A bug is a logical error in the programming of a computer program.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110426153038AAZtsRh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3g2840zXKY

GAME ENGINES

GAME ENGINES

Vertex Shader

A programmable function in display adapters that offers graphics application programmer flexibility in rendering an image.

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/53754/vertex-shader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KElJA_gieYQPixel Shader

The pixel shader is another programmable function that allows flexibility in shading an individual pixel. Whereas vertex shaders can be used to completely transform the shape of an object, pixel shaders are used to change the appearance of the pixels.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=NqgJVM26L-yq8wfS7IBQ#q=definition+of+pixel+shader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFG9Gp3tbMo

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Post Processing

You render your game the normal way, except for one thing. Instead of rendering to the screen (after which you can't do anything with it), you render it and save it as a texture.http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/263189-33-what-post-processing

Rendering Rendering is the process of generating an image from a 2D or 3D model (or models in what collectively could be called a scene file), by means of computer programs. Also, the results of such a model can be called a rendering.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendering_(computer_graphics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dOIju7--JgNormal Map

In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping, or "Dot3 bump mapping", is a technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of bump mapping. It is used to add details without using more polygons.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-6Yu-nTbUUEntity Entity Systems (ES) are a software technique using Composition rather than

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Inheritance to build high-performance code-architectures, using a structure similar to relational-databases and/or functional-programming.http://entity-systems.wikidot.com/

UV Map V mapping is the 3D modelling process of making a 2D image representation of a 3D model's surface.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping

Procedural Texture

A procedural texture is a computer-generated image created using an algorithm intended to create a realistic representation of natural elements such as wood, marble, granite, metal, stone, and others.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_texture

Physics Computer animation physics or game physics involves the introduction of the laws of physics into a simulation or game engine, particularly in 3D computer graphics, for the purpose of making the effects appear more real to the observer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_physics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jS3OHBfffY

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Collision Collision detection typically refers to the computational problem of detecting the intersection of two or more objects.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_detection

Lighting Lights in games used for effect

AA – Anti-Aliasing

Antialiasing is a software technique for diminishing jaggies - stairstep-like lines that should be smooth. Jaggies occur because the output device, the monitor or printer, doesn't have a high enough resolution to represent a smooth line.http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/antialiasing.html

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

LoD – Level of Detail

Level of detail is a general design term for video game landscapes in which closer objects are rendered with more polygons than objects that are farther away.http://www.techopedia.com/definition/11791/level-of-detail-lod

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yGgeb2lCiUAnimation Animation is the process of displaying still images in a rapid sequence to

create the illusion of movement. These images can be hand drawn, computer generated, or pictures of 3D objects.http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-animation.htm

Sprite In computer graphics, a sprite (also known by other names; see Synonyms below) is a two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene. Initially including just graphical objects handled separately from the memory bitmap of a video display, this now includes various manners of graphical overlays.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRp7F_pCUn4

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

Scene A sequence of continuous action in a play, film, opera, or book.https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=nrcSVPWSOPHH8gf4jYK4BA#q=what+is+a+scene&spell=1

LibraryUI The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine

interaction, is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is effective operation and control of the machine on the user's end, and feedback from the machine, which aids the operator in making operational decisions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface

Frames Frame rate, also known as frame frequency and frames per second (FPS), is the frequency (rate) at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames. The term applies equally well to film and video cameras, computer graphics, and motion capture systems. Frame rate is most often expressed in frames per second (FPS) and is also expressed in progressive scan monitors as hertz (Hz).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate

Concept An abstract ideahttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/concept

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Salford City CollegeEccles Sixth Form CentreBTEC Extended Diploma in GAMES DESIGNUnit 73: Sound For Computer GamesIG2 Task 1

EventPathfinding

Pathfinding or pathing is the plotting, by a computer application, of the shortest route between two points.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinding

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