Julian Gollop has been in the games industry for more than 30 years. You probably know him best as the designer of games like Chaos and X-COM: UFO Defense. His column, the Gollop Chamber, will touch ...
Whiffed a few too many times? Teased last month and now coming in the next update, a new bad-RNG “ragebar” will be added to free-to-play MMORPG Broken Ranks, letting players counter their poor rolls ...
Randomness in games can be a great way to keep things exciting. When players don’t know exactly what to expect, they feel compelled to execute a move to see what happens. The psychology of randomness ...