Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for February 18th, 2022. In today s article, we ve got a handful of new releases to close out the week with. A couple of interesting ones in there, and we ve got summaries of all of them as usual.
How Randomness Contributes to Strategic Thinking by Ross Przybylski on 01/27/21 10:15:00 am The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
Input randomness influences your decisions (ex: the procedurally generated starting conditions of a board game).
Output randomness
influences the outcome of a player’s decisions (ex: the roll of dice determining whether an attack hits or misses). This distinction is used to build an argument that while input randomness contributes positively to strategy games, output randomness “in all its forms is to be avoided”. Statements like this that conclusively discount value concern me. There is more we can learn from randomness.