Dear mobile game devs. When I play games like that, I always wonder if it’s the physics engine that’s actually random and produces the result?

Or is the result calculated before the animation happens, and dictates the animation?

I’ve always wondered. I have some notion of programming, but from far back, and I’ve been scratching my head long enough about this.

Thanks in advance.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Just like every video game, your odds can be heavily rigged against you if the developer wants it.

    Use this game as an example. No one’s going to recognise if the developer does intentional weighting (guiding the ball towards smaller wins via additional small vectors other than bouncing)

    On a carnival game, game host could use a weighted die to rig the odds towards it? On a video game, developer controls everything.