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Types of Randomness in Game Design - Rapid Talks - December 2020
This document discusses different types of randomness in game design including input randomness, output randomness, and player decision randomness. It provides examples of how randomness can be implemented in simple dice games and collectible card games. It also addresses how players perceive randomness and chance, as well as strategies for managing randomness so players have more agency and do not feel unfairly disadvantaged by random outcomes.
Types of Randomness in Game Design - Rapid Talks - December 2020
- 1. Types Of Randomness InGame Design Andrzej Jóźwiak andrzej.jozwiak@tomtom.com
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- 5. Simple game: 1) Firstplayer rolls the dice and sums the result 2) Second player rolls the dice and sums the result 3) Players compare the results 4) Repeat until my son declares he does not want to play anymore ;-)
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- 12. Output Randomness Player Decision InputRandomness Player Decision
- 19. How players perceiverandomness and chance?
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- 22. Did they complainabout landing a 10% or lower chance shot? Questions like this are often dismissedwith a simple "it can happen" :)
- 24. "It is possibleto commit no mistakes and still lose." but playersdo not want to acknowledge that :(
- 25. "Sid Meiering" thegame or the 80% = 100% rule
- 27. My childs game: •single deck of monsters • each monster has a price in coins • players buy them from same pool Issues: • one player draws better than the other • both can draw monsters costing more gold than they have Solution: Some clever deck sorting, that cheaper and weaker monsters show up earlier and pricier and stronger monsters show later in the game
- 28. Math for GameProgrammers:Dark Secrets of the RNG Jonathan Blow on Rigged RNG in Games 2012 GDC session: Sid Meier's Interesting Decisions Classic Game Postmortem:Sid Meier's Civilization The Two Types of Randomin Game Design In Defence Of Randomness
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