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This is called procedural animation, because the pose data is computed via some procedure at runtime, rather than just looked up/interpolated from a pre-baked animation timeline. Some examples of pure …

When I did this a couple years ago, I called them all "piles", and a hand (fan) was just a special subcategory of pile that could hover off-table and have private visibility to one player.

Vector3 offset = cam.ScreenToViewportPoint(lastPanPosition - newPanPosition); Vector3 move = new Vector3(offset.x * PanSpeed, 0, offset.y * PanSpeed); What is this exactly? I mean, what science is b …

I'm not aware of a specific term used for this kind of widget in UX/UI design specifically (the way we have names for the hamburger menu or kebab/dango menu) But searching for "cross handle" turns up …

I'm not aware of a standard term for this. Depending on how it's implemented, I might call it... "obstacle/occluder fade-out" if the object gains transparency all-over, evenly. Or "...dither-out" if …

As Almo says, roles within game development vary quite widely from studio to studio, or sometimes even between projects for a single team. But there are common patterns. I think the closest equivalen …

I would say game assets is definitely not specific enough. Everything in your game is an asset — the terrain itself, the shaders and textures it uses, every JSON or XML data file. Similarly, I'd argu …

In games, a "transform" refers to how an object is positioned, oriented, or scaled within the game world. To move an object, to rotate an object, or to squash and stretch an object are all forms of " …

Remember, these terms we throw around like MVP, agile, ECS, vertical slice, etc. are not absolute laws of the universe. They're just ideas that some folks have found helpful to their process. Where t …

Games inherited this term from animation, film, and video. There, a "frame" is one still image in the sequence. By playing lots of frames in rapid succession, we create the illusion of motion. See thi …

At our studio (Ubisoft Toronto) we usually call it a (low) health vignette. A vignette in photography & film refers to an effect around the edges of the frame (usually a darkening or defocus) like th …

Up until recently, when someone said raytracing, they almost certainly meant rendering the whole scene with ray-based techniques. Meaning... For each pixel in the image, we fire a ray from the camer …

Some options for an "outer" level: Group Set Stage Phase Tier (also suggests escalating value/difficulty) Folder (like a file system) Book Some options for an "inner" level: Puzzle Entry Challen …

In game design terms, HP, MP, and XP are all "resources" so we could call them "Resource Bars" collectively. If that's too abstract/designer-y, we could also try "Points Bars" since it encompasses hi …

Inside the GPU pipeline, each vertex represents a unique combination of: a position (so we know where to draw this corner of the adjacent polygon(s) on the screen) a normal vector (which way the sur …