{"id":259,"date":"2021-12-14T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/?p=259"},"modified":"2021-12-14T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:27:11","slug":"randomness-and-random-value-absorption-thresholds-keith-burgun-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/randomness-and-random-value-absorption-thresholds-keith-burgun-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Randomness, and \u201cRandom Value Absorption Thresholds\u201d \u2013 KEITH BURGUN GAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As with many things in game design, the objective with this random value is to make sure that we have enough of it that it\u2019s doing the job of randomness, but not so much that it is the thing driving the car. We want the player to be mainly driving the car; we want the final outcome to be a pretty darn clear result of the player\u2019s inputs throughout the match. We don\u2019t want players to have to play five, ten, or more matches to figure out if they\u2019re really winning or if it\u2019s just randomness swinging their way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/keithburgun.net\/good-randomness\/\">Randomness, and \u201cRandom Value Absorption Thresholds\u201d \u2013 KEITH BURGUN GAMES<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with many things in game design, the objective with this random value is to make sure that we have enough of it that it\u2019s doing the job of randomness, but not so much that it is the thing driving the car. We want the player to be mainly driving the car; we want the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-game-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}