The Importance of Randomization in Game Playing

Derek: I think the thing that a difference between you know me playing a roguelike or you know playing spelunky versus playing an arcade game is that I do think arcade games are best played in short bursts. Derek: Like we often talk about spelunky is like Mario crossed with net hack. But actually it's bubble bubble or like like Mario is maybe actually the wrong precedent to talk to you do you? And I think you mentioned even Mario yourself in the book but is that would you agree with thatlike oh well maybemaybe it's not really Mario meets net hack it's bubblebubble meets. Yeah so like games have become a much more passive thing than that like