Session Name: | Math for Game Programmers: Dark Secrets of the RNG |
Speaker(s): | Shay Pierce |
Company Name(s): | Dire Wolf Digital |
Track / Format: | Programming |
Overview: | This talk discusses techniques and considerations when using random generation in games. Several tricks and tips are presented, each starting with underlying design/psychology motivations and leading into technical implementation details, including "bagging", weighting, fairness (real, perceived, and contrived), heterogeneousness, and the use of historic outcomes to affect future results. |