Episode 39
39: The Tricks of the Toolkit with Mark Brown (Game Maker's Toolkit)
The Secret Lives of Games · Nick Suttner
February 28, 20201h 23m
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Show Notes
Mark Brown of Game Maker's Toolkit joins us to talk about the process behind his excellent series on game design. We discuss his recent video on randomness - diving deep on input/output randomness - as well as roguelike progression, and much more!
Things we discussed:
How (And Why) Spelunky Makes its Own Levels
Michael Brough's Imbroglio "brog"
Sid Meier's Psychology of Game Design
Geoff Engelstein's "pink noise" talk
Roguelikes, Persistency, and Progression