24 hour exclusive - How Games Use Feedback Loops | Game Maker’s Toolkit (Patreon)

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2018-01-08 12:08:07

Imported:

2020-07

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Hello! First episode of the new year is a look at a game I played over Christmas (the enchanting Pyre) and a breakdown of a pretty important bit of game design: feedback loops.

It's part of what I talked about at the end of last year, about wanting to do more stuff that can prove helpful to new designers.

This episode will go live for everyone tomorrow. And then the next episode is Breath of the Wild Boss Keys!

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How Games Use Feedback Loops | Game Maker’s Toolkit

Playing Pyre over Christmas got me thinking about feedback loops: the reward structures in games that can reinforce or balance out winners and losers. In this episode I’ll explain what this all means, and talk about the design of Pyre’s positive and negative loops. Support Game Maker's Toolkit on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/GameMakersToolkit Sources Solving XCOM’s Snowball Problem | Pentadact http://www.pentadact.com/2016-02-25-solving-xcoms-snowball-problem/ Git along there, little doggies | Team Fortress 2 http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=1872 Find Out More Level 4.4: Feedback Loops | Canvas https://learn.canvas.net/courses/3/pages/level-4-dot-4-feedback-loops Designer's Notebook: Positive Feedback | Gamasutra https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131426/designers_notebook_positive_.php [PPT] Feedback Systems and the Dramatic Structure of Competition | Mark LeBlanc http://algorithmancy.8kindsoffun.com/cgdc99.ppt Games shown in this episode (in order of appearance) Bastion (Supergiant Games, 2011) Transistor (Supergiant Games, 2014) Pyre (Supergiant Games, 2017) Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Infinity Ward, 2016) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward, 2007) Chess Ultra (Ripstone Ltd., 2017) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 2017) Tekken 7 (Bandai Namco, 2017) Splatoon (Nintendo, 2015) Forza Horizon 3 (Playground Games, 2016) Titanfall 2 (Respawn Entertainment, 2016) Team Fortress 2 (Valve Corporation, 2007) Arms (Nintendo, 2017) XCOM 2 (Firaxis, 2016) Battlefield 4 (EA DICE, 2013) SteamWorld Dig 2 (Image and Form, 2017) Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix, 2016) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt, 2015) Resident Evil 4 (Capcom Production Studio 4, 2005) NBA 2K18 (Visual Concepts, 2017) Civilization V (Firaxis Games, 2010) Dark Souls (From Software, 2011) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward, 2009) Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch, 2010) Devil May Cry (Capcom, 2001) Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Retro Studios, 2014) Music used in this episode 00:00 - Surviving Exile (Pyre, Darren Korb) 00:58 - Strange Voyage (Pyre, Darren Korb) 04:05 - The Blackwagon (Pyre, Darren Korb) 06:10 - Path to Glory (Pyre, Darren Korb) 07:11 - Moon-Touched (Pyre, Darren Korb) 07:49 - Path to Glory (Pyre, Darren Korb) 08:16 - To the Stars (Pyre, Darren Korb) 10:54 - Surviving Exile (Pyre, Darren Korb) 12:25 - Surviving Exile, Acoustic (Pyre, Darren Korb) 12:47 - k. Part 2 - 01 untitled 1, animeistrash Other credits MW2 - 6 KILLS WITH ONE PREDATOR MISSILE | Volound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPjlZTqdFh8 TACTICAL NUKE with AKIMBO Model 1887 - Modern Warfare 2 | TheKoreanSavage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFexH5_lwg8