The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice. The answers to the quiz can be found in Appendix A, "Quiz Answers."
Quiz
1:
What are the different types of video games ?
2:
What's the main priority to consider when designing a game?
3:
What's a storyboard?
4:
What's the highest quality sound you can use in a game?
Exercises
Play some video games and pay particular attention to how they can be broken down into groups of objects. Also pay attention to how sounds and music are weaved into the flow of the game, and how they are coordinated with interactions between objects.
Develop a class hierarchy for a game idea of your own, similar to the one created for the hypothetical fantasy adventure game discussed in this lesson.