{"id":108357,"date":"2020-01-30T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/357426"},"modified":"2020-01-30T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:47:00","slug":"video-using-chance-to-enhance-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/video-using-chance-to-enhance-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Using chance to enhance fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2016 GDC talk, Dragon&#8217;s Eye Productions&#8217; Dr. Cat discusses customized techniques for generating random numbers which are optimized for player-psychology and design intentionality.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, he advocates for&nbsp;more directly controlling\/skewing RNG to produce desired results, and offers some practical advice on the topic using game and code examples.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was an intriguing talk on a topic most game makers deal with on a regular basis, so if you didn&#8217;t see it live don&#8217;t miss your chance to take in Dr. Cat&#8217;s talk for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RqO-VhNIBVo\">free over on the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2016 GDC talk, Dragon&#8217;s Eye Productions&#8217; Dr. Cat discusses customized techniques for generating random numbers which are optimized for player-psychology and design intentionality. Notably, he advocates for&nbsp;more directly controlling\/skewing RNG to produce desired results, and offers some practical advice on the topic using game and code examples.&nbsp; It was an intriguing talk on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}