>Gameplay loop
Why is this term thrown around so liberally? It seems pretty naïve to reduce a game down to what essentially is a flowchart. Most games are way more complicated and multi-dimensional than that.
Gameplay loop
Christopher Russell
Benjamin Gray
Video games are often repetitive.
Dylan Russell
but are they
are they though
Lucas Brown
>It seems pretty naïve to reduce a game down to what essentially is a flowchart.
You are so lucky to never have worked in UML. That shit is horrible.
Bentley Barnes
Because it's used by massive faggots.
Gavin Nelson
>gameplay (za)loop(a)
Jordan Perez
Gameplay loop refers to the very core of the gameplay. For example, finding enemy, doing combo 1, 2 or 3, defeating enemy, get loot is a gameplay loop. Combo 1, 2 or 3 can be very complicated and the method of finding enemies worth fighting can also be complicated, but it's still a loop.
Sebastian Campbell
>It seems pretty naïve to reduce a game down to what essentially is a flowchart
That's literally what computer software is
Ryder Bennett
not really.
Oliver Walker
It was always a thing and something developers were conscious of. The only thing that changed is that it's the cool gamer thing to be aware and critical of right now. Except it's really a cringe gamer thing so shut the fuck up.
Christopher Richardson
>(za)loop(a)
Colton Long
>Why is this term thrown around so liberally?
Because it is a useful term for identifying and commenting on the way a game plays
Most games are way more complicated and multi-dimensional than that
Ok
Wyatt White
it's a meme, you've youtube "analysts" and the pretentious twats who watch them to thank for it
Landon Parker
I guess some people don't like to think they are, because it makes it seem as though their pasttime is a pointless monotonous waste of time.
Kayden Watson
Gameplay was doubleplusnotgood so it had to go
Thomas Bailey
>Most games are way more complicated
No.
Sebastian Wright
LOYDSFERMASEE
LOYDSFERMASEE WONWORD
Brody Kelly
A flowchart with 10K objects?
Jordan Ramirez
>no
explain.
Jaxon Thomas
Or a hundred thousand, or a million, or more.
Henry Brown
I’ve heard “gameplay loop” for years. It isn’t new. I was just listening to a Giant Bombcast from 2010 and they said it.
Ryan Price
you can reduce literally anything to a flowchart with enough reductionism
John Watson
>purposely addictive gameplay loops
>lootboxes
>skins
>only modern gaming
Mason Lee
бaзиpoвaнный и кpacнoтaблeтoчный
Jonathan Edwards
Eochair
Jaxon Ramirez
piss of newton
Jose Sullivan
Play more games.
Liam Ross
This is because people have the memory span of a goldfish and think the universe didn't exist before they were born. What's old is new again, and yadda yadda...
Dylan Thompson
>can't explain
okiedoke.
Wyatt Ortiz
>Play more shitty games
FTFY
Samuel Collins
There is nothing to explain.
Most games are shitty. Therefore, most games use basic gameplay loops.
Christian Green
Video games are computer programs. Every computer program can be reduced to what essentially is a flowchart. Every single one. Doesn't matter how complicated they appear, computers at their core are only executing very simple instructions.