Timeline for What does it mean for a game to be a skinner box?
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| May 7, 2021 at 16:42 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | I don't understand why people would play those lousy games when there are much better games. | |
| May 7, 2021 at 12:00 | comment | added | Philipp | Modern games often use far more sophisticated "RNG" algorithms than just random probability. There is a saying among game designers: "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance". Fudging RNG results in order to provide the best possible (or most profitable) game experience is a popular tool in the toolkit of every experienced game designer. "number of kills needed for the next loot drop is from 2 to 8" isn't a particularly unusual mechanic nowadays. | |
| May 7, 2021 at 9:08 | comment | added | aphid | Reading followup publications, it seems people experimented used a random interval (e.g. the number of presses needed for the next pellet is from 2 to 8), while modern games use just a random probability (1 in 5) which could need more than 8 presses, but both qualify as 'variable ratio/skinnerbox'. I suppose the specific statistical distribution could improve the addictiveness, as I see many of these types of mechanics have complex 'guarantees' against bad luck of some sort (e.g. you get a 3% super-rare guaranteed every 100 rolls). Popular games do data science to achieve maximum profit. | |
| May 7, 2021 at 8:39 | vote | accept | aphid | ||
| May 7, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/TheArqade/status/1390501833551056897 | ||
| May 7, 2021 at 1:18 | answer | added | Chengarda | timeline score: 87 | |
| May 6, 2021 at 18:27 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 6, 2021 at 13:33 | answer | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | timeline score: 30 | |
| May 6, 2021 at 13:00 | history | edited | aphid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add link to the original paper. (Took a bit to find).
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| May 6, 2021 at 12:05 | answer | added | Raven Dreamer | timeline score: 17 | |
| May 6, 2021 at 10:28 | history | edited | aphid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add a conjecture to what I think might be close to the answer (what have I tried to come up with?).
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| May 6, 2021 at 10:22 | history | asked | aphid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |