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This category contains articles that relates to video game design. For articles on computer and video game creation in general, see Category:Video game development . For articles on game design in general, see Category:Game design .
In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene, most often in a 2D video game.Originally, the term sprite referred to fixed-sized objects composited together, by hardware, with a background. [1]
Some of the earliest video games were text games or text-based games that used text characters instead of bitmapped or vector graphics.Examples include MUDs (multi-user dungeons), where players could read or view depictions of rooms, objects, other players, and actions performed in the virtual world; and roguelikes, a subgenre of role-playing video games featuring many monsters, items, and ...
Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal of specialized hardware and software has been developed, with the displays of most devices being driven by computer graphics hardware .
Challenge of the Ancient Empires!, also known as Ancient Empires is an educational computer game created by The Learning Company in 1990 for both MS-DOS and Macintosh. [2] It is designed to improve history, logic, and problem solving skills in children ages 7 to 10 [3] (or 10 and up, according to the box art seen to the right).
The game's main characters are two opossums who at various times either want to play or take a nap. The activities within the game include music composition and learning, a music maze, a picture scene with interactive objects, a puppet show and a Monopoly-style game that teaches counting and currency concepts.
In 1994, a version with enhanced sound and graphics was released on CD-ROM. [1] In 1997 an updated version of the game was released on CD-ROM (version 2.0 Mac/2.01 Win) with even better graphics. Treasure Mountain! was later released in a software bundle package with both Treasure Cove! and Treasure Galaxy! under the name Treasure Trio!. This ...
Computer graphics is the field of visual computing, where one utilizes computers both to generate visual images synthetically and to integrate or alter visual and spatial information sampled from the real world.