"Numbers go up." Scoring 101; Turning off the Gamedev Brain

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This week, learn about what Ellen was like as a student. Stephen wonders if he’s made a huge mistake, Ellen does some work research, and Mark insists that there is no such thing as magic.

• Stephen started a new class: Film making
• Ellen forced her parents to play another game!
• Parks Board Game
• Mark saw the Badger Badger Mushroom song for the first time and was underwhelmed. Consequently, Dale was editing and then also got to see it for the first time, and found that this was the correct response. This video is over 20 years old (2003).
• Badger Badger Mushroom

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  Weeb's Stuff

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  YouTube
• Mark is (still) working on some User Interface Tools in Unity, called NobleTools

0:11:26

Scoring 101

The four types of scoring discussed: 1. Victory Points 2. Experience Points 3. Stats based scoring 4. Hit Points

Perplexity conversation

Noodle

The Training Arcade

Kurt Vonnigut The Shape of Stories

Stephen Johnson

Big Think

Summing Salt - Mario Kart DS

Summing Salt

YouTube

0:42:39

Turning off the Gamedev Brain

Moonwalking with Einstein

Wikipedia

Ellen has been watching the behind the scenes special feature for ' The House that Dragons Built'