[I&C SCI 60] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Big gaming dominated early years of video game industry: recently deflated by inventions such as app store, steam, google play, Serious games: games intentionally created with a primary agenda other than entertainment. Freemium: games (often apps) that you can download for free, but players have to pay a fee in order to proceed past a certain point, eliminate advertising, or unlock more of the game. Console and handheld games have been seeing a decline while all other games and the game industry in general have a projected annual growth of 9. 6% for 2013-2018. Major console manufacturers (sony, nintendo, microsoft, sega, atari) never really made money off the console itself: made most of money from games (license fees) Engine: the basic code which defines the relation between game objects and determines the limits of graphics and sound. Aaa: the term used for video games with the highest development budgets (gta,
