• v1.021: One RNG to rule them all with Paul Sottosanti

  • Oct 18 2023
  • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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v1.021: One RNG to rule them all with Paul Sottosanti

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  • Paul Sottosanti, game design veteran and certified cool guy joins Regal and Swimfan to talk about the role that randomness, variance, and luck affect games, mostly from a designer's perspective, in both general and case-specific terms.


    0:00:00 Who is Paul Sottosanti?

    0:29:18 Basic concepts and a tangent about the popularity of games

    0:43:00 Drawing cards

    1:20:00 Build complexity

    1:42:27 Play-by-mail games

    2:22:29 Horizontal progression and strategic diversity

    2:39:45 Damage range

    2:54:14 Rapidfire topics

    Outro music by Cyranek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LF80G6nB4

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