
39: The Tricks of the Toolkit with Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit)
Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
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Randomness in Games
Doug: I teach an intro game design class and one of the classes is on uncertainty or randomness in games. And it's really useful to have a different like a similar topic with slightly different perspective, right? Just show them, Oh, look, this is a framing mechanism and some people have used different words for it just so that you see that this is not like no one wrote this down as like the formulaic math. It's like a way to see things. So yeah, echo what Doug just said,. It's an amazing, amazing way to get them involved in it.
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