The secret of Data Science and Objectivism
All the fancy algorithms in the world won’t save a bad premise.
Month: November 2019
Balancing Grinding Below the Level Curve in an Open World – MMO Virtual Economy
When we have an open world MMO, it’s crucial to be on top of its virtual game economy. It’s human nature to try to exploit the system, and your players will test the limits that you build for your world. The sigmoid (also known as the logistic function) is an …
Just make game
Making good games is hard. Making games that yield a profit is even harder.
Monitoring game economy inflation for product people – Data-Driven Product Management
We all know that inflation in a game economy can cause a lot of problems. Among which: Decreased need to spend money on in-app purchases to obtain game items/currency Increased difficulty for new players to be able to compete with older players Lack of feeling of meaningful progression Overall spender …
Why power, strategy, and games
If you know why you are building a certain product, then it gets easier to validate it. You just keep checking your results against your premise.