Vernacademia 11 -- Randomness

Vernacular Games

In this cast we explore Randomness as a concept and how it can be applied to video games You can find the rest of the playlist at: soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac/sets/vernacademia-podcast-season-2 Our Website: https://www.vernaculargames.com/ Our Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/vernaculargames Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/VernacularGames Our Minds: https://www.minds.com/vernaculargames/ Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VernacularGames/ Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/VernacularGames?lang=en Our Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/redcoatvernac Our Audius: https://audius.co/vernaculargames Cliff Notes: 00:04 Introduction 00:13 What is Randomness 01:03 Suspension of Disbelief 01:57 Predictability and Disbelief 02:32 Deterministic Unpredictability is Hard 03:04 Randomness and Suspension of Disbelief 03:47 Randomness and Gameplay Variance 04:00 Card Games and Randomness 04:34 Predictability and AI 05:08 Randomness and Risky Play 05:24 Random results and Pokemon 06:09 How can Randomness can be implemented 06:29 Progressive and Insular Randomness 07:15 Humans and Pattern Seeking 08:22 Pattern Seeking and Player Perception 09:29 Result Relevance and Pattern Seeking 10:20 Pokemon and Result Relevance 11:40 Audio Cues and Impact Perception 12:34 "Owed" Luck or Unluck 13:21 Contextual Randomness and Disbelief 14:29 Implementing Insular Randomness 14:40 Implementing Progressive Randomness 14:48 Bag of Results or Deck of Cards 15:11 Results History 15:28 Adjusting Chance 16:20 Progressive RNG to Match Player Expectation 17:04 Sample Size and Standard Distribution 19:09 Pokemon and Binary Result Logic 19:45 Miss Chance and Binary Result Logic 20:50 Card Games and Gradated Result Logic 21:40 Result Gradation 22:11 Gradated Results and Fire Emblem 22:47 Randomness and Skill 24:13 Skill, Randomness and Exciting Play 25:54 Next Cast and Sign Off