lucasrizoli @lucasrizoli@mastodon.social

Radiator Yang has started another of his excellent series of level design critiques on the first Thief game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEQkcfTGm7A

"Trying to read any of the [small] text in [God of War] has forced me to get up and stand next to the screen."

https://kotaku.com/god-of-war-patch-increases-the-text-size-but-its-still-1825451101

"I never misattribute. I either don't care or it doesn't matter."

"I never lose. I either win or I learn."

A runbook is a fakebook.

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http://publicdomainreview.org/product/chart-of-vibrations/

"Far Cry 5 has named all the medicinal skill boosters "homeopathics"… What bugs me is the "normalization" of the term - it's another example of homeopathy being pushed into mass culture and portrayed as effective, even if it is in a videogame where you single-handedly defeat 1,000s of bad guys"

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/8diq3h/homeopathics_in_far_cry_5_normalization_of_a_con/

“Involving homeopathy, Health Canada is stuck: either it affirms the alleged effectiveness of these products despite the total lack of scientific evidence, or it concedes that it has been green-lighting silly water as a health product in its role as a government regulator.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/homeopathic-remedies-1.4627716

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The GDC talk History Shaping Design: Inequality and Player Behavior seems in ways like a synopsis of Kahneman's Thinking, Fast & Slow.

But it emphasizes studies on inequality and cognitive biases, particularly how players who're rich/poor in a game see themselves and others.

http://gdcvault.com/play/1024962/History-Shaping-Design-Inequality-and

Boss Up is a good talk, with lots of insight and things that can be applied broadly and easily.

I do wish I could find more on this "Delta of Chance" phenomenon, but there's no citation and all I can find are links back to this talk.

Though I wonder what is gained by talking of dopamine in the section on the Delta of Chance. Seems like unnecessary neuro-essentialism that doesn't further the speaker's point nor the audience's understanding of the material.

Excellent talk on boss battles that goes into many common uses, styles, & structures. Worthwhile; well-prepared & delivered.

http://gdcvault.com/play/1024921/Boss-Up-Boss-Battle-Design

"Get paranoid" about your data.
http://gdcvault.com/play/1025095/Data-Driven-or-Data-Blinded

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