How Games Use Feedback Loops
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Playing Pyre over Christmas got me thinking about feedback loops: the reward structures in games that can reinforce or balance out winners and losers. In this episode I’ll explain what this all means, and talk about the design of Pyre’s positive and negative loops.
=== Sources and Resources ===
- Sources
Solving XCOM’s Snowball Problem | Pentadact
http://www.pentadact.com/2016-02-25-solving-xcoms-snowball-problem/
Git along there, little doggies | Team Fortress 2
http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=1872
- Additional resources
Level 4.4: Feedback Loops | Canvas
https://learn.canvas.net/courses/3/pages/level-4-dot-4-feedback-loops
Designer's Notebook: Positive Feedback | Gamasutra
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131426/designers_notebook_positive_.php
[PPT] Feedback Systems and the Dramatic Structure of Competition | Mark LeBlanc
http://algorithmancy.8kindsoffun.com/cgdc99.ppt
=== Chapters ===
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - What is a feedback loop?
00:58 - Positive Feedback Loops
01:55 - Negative Feedback Loops
02:43 - Benefits of feedback loops
03:47 - Disadvantages of feedback loops
06:13 - How Pyre fixes feedback loops
08:16 - How loops balance themselves out
10:55 - Dampening feedback loops
12:50 - Patreon Credits
=== Games Shown ===
Bastion (Supergiant Games, 2011)
Transistor (Supergiant Games, 2014)
Pyre (Supergiant Games, 2017)
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Infinity Ward, 2016)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward, 2007)
Chess Ultra (Ripstone Ltd., 2017)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 2017)
Tekken 7 (Bandai Namco, 2017)
Splatoon (Nintendo, 2015)
Forza Horizon 3 (Playground Games, 2016)
Titanfall 2 (Respawn Entertainment, 2016)
Team Fortress 2 (Valve Corporation, 2007)
Arms (Nintendo, 2017)
XCOM 2 (Firaxis, 2016)
Battlefield 4 (EA DICE, 2013)
SteamWorld Dig 2 (Image and Form, 2017)
Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix, 2016)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt, 2015)
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom Production Studio 4, 2005)
NBA 2K18 (Visual Concepts, 2017)
Civilization V (Firaxis Games, 2010)
Dark Souls (From Software, 2011)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward, 2009)
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Treyarch, 2010)
Devil May Cry (Capcom, 2001)
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Retro Studios, 2014)
=== Credits ===
Music used in this episode
Pyre soundtrack
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Other credits
MW2 - 6 KILLS WITH ONE PREDATOR MISSILE | Volound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPjlZTqdFh8
TACTICAL NUKE with AKIMBO Model 1887 - Modern Warfare 2 | TheKoreanSavage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFexH5_lwg8
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