These are some concrete examples to illustrate how randomness influences player experience. It is a companion post to the previous post: "Emotions and Randomness - Loot Drops"
Includes Ni No Kuni, Castlevania: SotN, WoW, Demon's Souls, Binding of Isaac
The math behind loot drops is not generally given much thought past a flat percentage drop rate, but the type of randomness used can greatly influence a player's emotional game experience. I'd like to bring a bit of light to these considerations.
r n r nYour argument isn 't about the reality of anything as what you are claiming isn 't true. Piracy is theft it just looks more like the theft of labor/services than a physical object.
Thanks for the insight, Jonathan. I may have to track down the DS version it sounds like it 'd be worth checking out. r n r nAs for taming all of the monsters I certainly started the game wanting to. I killed about 80 of the banana bunch family monsters ...
I think the point Karl is making is more along the lines that economics is not a natural science. Comparing it to a natural science obscures the fact that all rules for the economy were made at some point by people, generally for some reason. r n r nThere are ...
I do really like this approach. If designers were bold enough to experiment to really meld weighted probabilities with subtle tells, it could have incredible consequences. I do still encourage to not make everything look random but be deterministic, though. For an example of how that can go awry, look ...
