Video Game Developer Glossary "M"

Glossary by George Spanos with Special thanks to Xan

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Mobile Development:

Video games for the mobile market are very popular. As such, there are many game development studios who work exclusively on mobile game titles. Mobile games are most often associated with Apple's iOS devices, Google's Android, and even browser based games can be considered mobile.

MoCap:

Motion Capture, or MoCap is a process where live actors play out a scene that is captured by many video cameras. The information that is captured is then used by computer software to more accurately respresent a character's motion in a video game. Animators will often use MoCap to attain a higher fidelity and more realistic body movement than what can be achieved by tradition animation.

MIP-Map:

MIP-Mapping is a process where multiple images of a single object are stored at different resolutions and sizes. This helps to save memory by only using an image resolution that is appropriate for a scene. If an object is far away in the distance it does not make sense to render a full quality representation. Instead, a lower resolution will be used from the MIP-Map.

Multi-Thread:

Multi-threading is the ability of computer software to run many different parts of a program at the same instant. It is required in order for the application to be able to process different requests at the same time instead of waiting for each request to end first before starting the next.

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