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Into the Depths: Noita - Part 5

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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How to Design a Random Number Generator

The way you design a game has to be really different if you're handling things being unbounded I would recommend to anybody who's designing a game to try just as a thought experiment we were doing this over the last summer prototyping a bunch of games and one of the things I did is I made a random number generating class that works on the normal distribution so you can say for example I want a number that is most likely to be between zero and one but might be a billion you know might be negative for billion. Even though most of the time it's going to be betweenzero and one, there are some very strange floating point numbers in Noyter too. That's part of the

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