Who Builds a Video Game: teacher key

How Video Games Are Made, grade 2 edition, written for 2nd grade. A game is made by a team of designers, programmers and artists. You will also read how the first Pong machine stopped working.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Who plans how a game is played?
   • Game designers (answer)
   • Game testers
   • Writers
2. What are sprites?
   • Loud sounds
   • Small pictures games use (answer)
   • Game machines
3. When did Atari release Pong?
   • 1958
   • 1990
   • 1972 (answer)
4. Why did the first Pong machine stop working?
   • It was full of quarters (answer)
   • It was too old
   • It was broken by a storm
5. Which job checks a game for bugs?
   • Artist
   • Tester (answer)
   • Writer
6. What does making a modern video game need?
   • One person alone
   • People working together (answer)
   • Only a TV

Words

• designers: game planners
• programmers: code workers
• sprites: small pictures
• testers: game checkers