https://gamewhispering.com/game-theory-and-you/ Game Design Consulting Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gamewhispering.com/game-theory-and-you/#comment-7 Tue, 01 May 2012 21:47:11 +0000 https://gamewhispering.com/?p=165#comment-7 damned of course you are right….Ghostbusters and not BTTF….shame on me !
Good luck with your whispers….

]]> https://gamewhispering.com/game-theory-and-you/#comment-6 Tue, 01 May 2012 14:55:38 +0000 https://gamewhispering.com/?p=165#comment-6 Thanks for the kind words, O. My point is that competitive gaming is a good way to learn about game theory because it is the analysis of optimal play at work. I just made the distinction that you don’t need to be a great player yourself to be a good designer, because that is a very common bias, but I guess my explanation is a bit confusing on its own. I am actually saying two things at once. 1 – You can learn about the mechanics of expert play only by watching them play. 2 – You need to learn about what the user likes and not become that user yourself (competitive or not). Oh, and that was from Ghostbusters!

]]> https://gamewhispering.com/game-theory-and-you/#comment-5 Tue, 01 May 2012 14:03:55 +0000 https://gamewhispering.com/?p=165#comment-5 I like the “Back to the future” reference 🙂
Nice blog and interesting as always even if I think that competitive gaming has a bias to it if you want to learn from it….because then people ARE competitive and in lots of game it’s not always the case…you may want to win but maybe not in a very competitive way…taking back your F1 analogy…you also have lots of people making car for a day-to-day usage…and they can be pretty good at it too…both worlds can learn fro each other obviously and car industry did take lots of stuff from high-end F1 but is it like this that you can know what will make a guy buy a car ?

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