Pardon the dust
April 21, 2008 4:17 pm
Looks like the Wordpress upgrade broke some stuff. Will fix within the next few days.
metrics, data management, and usability for online games
Looks like the Wordpress upgrade broke some stuff. Will fix within the next few days.
My biggest secret is that, even though I have a math degree from MIT, it’s not about math at all. If I was going to make a fighting game from scratch, starting with nothing, there’d be a tiny bit of math to make sure that, if you make them block a move, you can’t block it again to prevent infinite loops, so there’s already a little bit of maths done for me in Super Street Fighter, but when it comes to things like, should this guy’s priority be a little bit better or not?
It’s just this holistic approach. We know the results from all these tournaments from all these years, and it’s just having an intuition of what a tweak is going to do.
But NO, YOU NEED ! Even glorified worldbuilders need math degrees.
[…] what if we want to include data visualization as an integral part of the site, not just an isolated figure or an interactive chart? When we’re designing interfaces for browsing data-driven sites, it’s valuable to be able to create navigation elements that are also visualization tools. We can keep the user informed as they explore, so they can make better decisions about what they’re looking at and what they’re clicking on.
Have you seen any other player survey “innovations” recently?