FInal game desin

Accesbility UI

Colorblind-safe palettes, and readable text

Hex grid

one cell has 6 direct neighbors

Tile systems

are reusable layout data and clear navigation(mario)

particle emitter tuning example (an explosion, footstep dust)

increase gravity and reduce upward velocity (05:57)

Level Mechanics integration

tile collision paths(combines tiles) , tuned parallax speeds, and clear 3D landmarks(3D geometry). (06:34)

Fair difficulty Tuning

• Easy: more ammo/health pickups scattered around

• Hard: fewer drops, forcing resource management

3D geometry and performance

LOD and low-poly are good geometry choices for performance. fewer polygons = less work for the GPU

Euclidean distance

strightline distance between two points

Manhatten distance

sum of horizontal and vertical grid differences

why is modular design useful in game architecture

it imporves reuse, maintenance, and performance(instead of making 50 foot wall you make the 50 foot wall in 20 ft increments)

Game loop structure(what does the game loop do each frame )

repeatedly processes user input, updates state, and renders

How do you use draw,discard and reshuffle

seperate deck,hand, and discard piles

pattern and loop integration

health changes emit events that update UI

Pathfinding integration examples (how do perception, desicion logic, and pathfinding work together)

perception informs decisions, then pathfinding moves to goal(nav mesh)

Deck Data structure tradeoff (16:03)

Remaining elements shift left

square grid adajancy(17:28)

4 neighbors

What are three accurate actor representation approaches

sprite sheet(images of frames), rigged 2d actor(limbs), 3d model with amature(animations)

Example of particle and physics systems interacting (19:56)

rain particles collide while gravity and wind affect motion

what distance model is common for a 4-direction square movement (hes gonna give us an example and were gonna have to use the best distance metric to choose and why)

manhatten distance

particle system components (21:59)

emmiters plus particles with properties

WHy game engines

faster development with built in systems

example of Ai perception inputs

sight,sound,touch/collision

example of armature and rigging relationship

amatures are skeletons; rigging binds mesh to bones

ecs?

entitiy is id, components are data, systems run logic

Grid type selection(give us an example and we need to choose correct grid for that)(26:32)

square for orthogonal puzzles, hex for smoother tatics

What are core engine subsystems

rendering, physics, input

What is a game engine

a reusable framework for core game systems

ecs vs inheritance(28:00)

add or remove traits at runtime

what is an actor

an entity that performs actions(door, torch, enemy character

what is a parallax

background layer moving slower than foreground (cuphead, mario)