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VGD - Mid Term Exam

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Term
Definition
Perspective   Describes how the gameplay is displayed on the screen and the position of the player within the game  
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First Person Perspective   Where the player sees the game through the eyes of the character  
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Second-Person perspective   The player sees the games as if the player were the opponent or an intermediary  
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Camera refers to   The viewpoint of the game. It records the action of the game and displays it on your screen.  
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Third-Person Perspective   The play is viewed by a person who is not the player’s character or the player’s opponent, but rather a neutral third person. It can be viewed from overhead, behind, or any angle left, right or forward of the player.  
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Platform View   Shows the character in profile and a side view of all obstacles  
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Overhead View   Shows the character and surroundings from a perspective high overhead  
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Scene   Is the placement of objects on a game frame to create an attractive layout, obstacles, and objectives that convey the story and mood.  
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Color Palette   A set of colors used consistently throughout a scene to maintain mood. 4 Main colors  
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Red color means   – passion  
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Yellow color means   – cheerful  
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Blue color means   – peaceful  
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gray color means   - gloomy  
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Active Object   An object with which the player can interact  
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Background Object   Is an object with which the play cannot interact  
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Backdrop   Includes buildings, trees, and other objects that do not damage or reward the player  
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StoryBoard   They help organize and plan what will happens  
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Pixels   Or Picture elements are the smallest points or dots of color a computer screen can generate  
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Resolution   The number of dots or pixels per inch in the image. More DPI the Greater the resolutuion  
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Clarity   How clearly images are displayed with either line or pixel density  
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Pixelated   It occurs is the process of interpolations that the computer performs and picture becomes blurry  
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Interpolation   A refining of the spaces between the point or pixels of an object when the object is resized  
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Native Poles   Are the original pixels of an object before it was modified  
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Dithering   Computer process of scattering pixels of different colors to approximate a true color  
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RGB Color Mode   A color value of 0,0,0 (red, green, blue) is black and 255, 255, 255, is white  
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HSL Color Mode   It uses Hue, Saturation and Luminescence values to create colors.  
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Raster Image   An image made up of dots  
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BitMap   A Raster image is mapped because the location and color of each pixel is mapped  
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Bit Depth   Is a binary measurement for color  
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True Color   A bit depth of 24  
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Deep Color   Has a 48 bit depth  
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Gamut   Is the entire range of colors  
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Masking Color   Is a single shade of color that can be set to be transparent  
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Vector Images   Images composed of lines, curves and fills defined by their mathematics definitions  
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Compression   Uses mathematical formulas to approximate the location and color of each pixel and thereby reduce the total file size  
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Lossy Compression Algorithm   Compresses the images but does not keep perfect image clarity  
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LossLess Compression Algorithm   Compresses the image and keeps perfect clarity when uncompressed.  
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