Designer Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Without them, a 4X game suddenly becomes an aimless simulation where the players set their own goals. Simulations can be great games, but they tend not to be a good format for turn-based games with transparent game mechanics. Of course, one might ask, wouldn’t the player lose if the AI fulfills their ten ambitions first?

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution. DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution images.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise. Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. see: "CRT Simulation in Super Win the Game" ). It already feels so fraught to me. I even thought about implementing a sheepdog.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 24, 2023

While the “single-player market” may sound like an oxymoron, innovative games like Shop Titans and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator tell stories through their in-game markets. For example, a balance patch to Skyweavers that changes the power (and thus price) of different cards will shake up the market considerably.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 3, 2022

aoemica continued expansion of Cog-Minder , including not only the build and combat simulator and tons of raw searchable data but now also with an amazing new wiki including maps, encounters, strategies, and all sorts of good stuff. and the heavy combat guide , a style which leiavoia is very good at ;). WARLORD FOREVER!

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 30, 2022

Under your watch, these AI men wander the randomly generated sex maze and pair-up for sex based on proximity, line of sight, and sexual compatibility. In my simulation code, men can have one of five sexual moods: Top, Bottom, VersBottom (Versatile), TrueVers, and Voyeur. You play as a sex angel. These moods must be compatible.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and I think this balance tuning is intentional. So I think they got this balance right, even if I whine about it. But for a medium mob (4-6 enemies) in a cover-y arena you can just run in and safely slice up everyone. but you can only safely do this if you have 50% or more health already. You're trading health for ammo / convenience.

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Sirlin

JULY 25, 2019

Fantasy Strike ranked mode is a rough simulation of this excitement. Even if a game were impossibly well balanced and had like 100 matchups that were all 5-5, but 20 matchups that were 6-4 or 7-3, then you’d hardly ever play the 5-5 ones compared to the other ones, even though at first glance MOST of the game is the fair ones.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

How to avoid the trap of a local maximum in solution space? The human brain itself may demonstrate a similar structure. In Thinking Fast and Slow psychologist Daniel Kahneman outlines the two main modules of human congnition – system 1 (snap judgments, intuition, reflex) and system 2 (slow, step-by-step, logical calculation.)

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