EARLY ACCESS- Vampire Survivors Only Works Because We're Stupid
Added 2023-02-01 23:23:26 +0000 UTCYou are terrible at maths. Sorry, someone had to say it. However, it's not all bad news - so is every other human being ever to live! You're ALL awful when it comes to numbers! Whilst you don't always realize it, humans have an incredibly flawed understanding of everything from size to statistics, changing the way we perceive and think about numbers, particularly in videogames - but does this make them better or worse?
After clearing out a few suspiciously similar milk factories and plumbing the darkest depths of the human psyche, The Architect has determined that although the brain might be flawed, it's these flaws that can lead to some very fun game design, and no game knows this better than Vampire Survivors.
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Comments
I started watching this and then had to stop because I was afraid you'd ruin the fun of this game for me and I'm still playing it. It's FUN. That is my only criteria for games.
Andrea
2023-02-06 02:42:33 +0000 UTCThat is an amazing question! I played Vampire survivors, and deleted it because part of my brain "understood it was stupid". But I couldn't formulate the fundamental question you raise here. I think it's really really interesting. I've written pseudo-fair-feeling-random algorithms for games, and so I know how this is done. But the question of "When is it ok" is really really interesting. In some sense all games are "a waste of time you're tricked to pay for", but it's fun?... But is it supposed to be somehow transcendent "good"? I don't know... It's such an amazing question. I love that you asked this. I'm going out to ask my discus this with my smartest friends! Thank you.
Theis Egeberg
2023-02-02 13:11:41 +0000 UTC
