Meet the Game Team: teacher key

How Video Games Are Made, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. A video game is made by a team of people who each do a different job. Meet the designers, artists, programmers and testers, and the engines they build with.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. Who makes the characters and objects in a game move?
   • Animators (answer)
   • Testers
   • Level designers
2. What is a prototype?
   • A finished game in a store
   • A simple early version of a game (answer)
   • A kind of game console
3. Which tool runs in a web browser and lets beginners make 2D games without programming?
   • Unreal Engine
   • Blender
   • Construct 3 (answer)
4. Why does a team have testers while a game is being made?
   • To check the game for bugs and other problems (answer)
   • To draw the characters
   • To write the music
5. In this sentence, what are sprites? "Games use small pictures called sprites."
   • Sounds in a game
   • Small pictures (answer)
   • Game testers

Words

• engine: building tools
• prototype: early version
• sprites: small pictures
• animators: movement makers
• programmers: technical workers