{"id":120,"date":"2009-10-05T08:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:20:23","slug":"costikyan-on-randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/10\/costikyan-on-randomness\/","title":{"rendered":"Costikyan on Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/randomness28.png\" alt=\"Greg Costikyan on Randomness\" title=\"Greg Costikyan on Randomness\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/randomness28.png 480w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/randomness28-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greg Costikyan has posted an engaging essay on randomness in game design. It&#8217;s a thoughtful, extensive read; here&#8217;s a sample to whet your appetite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOne sort of game aesthetic says: Games should be won by skill and not luck. Hence any recourse to randomness by a game is bad.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, it&#8217;s an attitude held by two sorts of gamers who otherwise have very little in common: Fans of abstract strategy games, and fans of first-person shooters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/playthisthing.com\/randomness-blight-or-bane\">Greg Costikyan<\/a>: <em>Randomness: Blight or Bane?<\/em> @ Play This Thing!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what Costikyan means by &#8220;blight or bane&#8221; &#8230; perhaps he intended &#8220;boon or bane&#8221; &#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Costikyan has posted an engaging essay on randomness in game design. It&#8217;s a thoughtful, extensive read; here&#8217;s a sample to whet your appetite: One sort of game aesthetic says: Games should be won by skill and not luck. Hence any recourse to randomness by a game is bad. Curiously, it&#8217;s an attitude held by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}