Inside a Game Studio: teacher key

How Video Games Are Made, grade 4 edition, written for 4th grade. Game studios rely on teams of designers, programmers and artists. Read how a game goes from an idea to a prototype, and how the first games began.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is a prototype?
   • A simple early version of a game (answer)
   • A kind of music
   • A place in a level
2. Who builds the places and levels players play through?
   • Testers
   • Level designers (answer)
   • Animators
3. Which tool lets beginners make 2D games in a web browser without programming?
   • Blender
   • Unity
   • Construct 3 (answer)
4. What happened in 1972?
   • Atari released Pong (answer)
   • The Atari 2600 came out
   • Tennis for Two was made
5. What is a game engine?
   • A part of a car
   • A software platform with tools to build a game (answer)
   • A kind of cartridge
6. Why might designers watch people play a game?
   • To learn what to change (answer)
   • To sell it faster
   • To pick its price

Words

• prototype: early version
• engine: building tools
• animators: movement makers
• cartridge: game holder
• testers: game checkers