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Essential concepts of balancing
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Methods and tools
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Terms specific to game balance
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Balancing process
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Overview
Overview and development
- Meta Metagaming
- Ernest Adams Ernest W. Adams
- David Sirlin
- Jesse Schell
- YouTube
Terms specific to game balance
- Player versus player
- Player versus environment
- Non-player characters
- Co-op Cooperative video game
- Game mechanics
- Ultima Online
- Nerf
- MMORPGs Massively multiplayer online game
- Anarchy Online
- Virtual economy
- RPG Role-playing game
- Character class
- Level of experience Experience point
- Skills and abilities Statistic (role-playing games)
- Final Fantasy
- Mystic Knight Final Fantasy character classes
- Software patch Patch (computing)
- MMORPGs MMORPG
- Nerf Nerfing (gaming)
Essential concepts of balancing
- Chance Randomness
- Flow Flow (psychology)
- Computer opponents Computer opponent
- Chris Crawford Chris Crawford (game designer)
- Pac-Man
- Computer Gaming World
- Tempest Tempest (video game)
- InfoWorld
- Action games Action game
- Bungie
- Halo Halo (series)
- Sid Meier
- Civilization Civilization (video game)
- Dani Bunten
- Decisions Decision-making
- Dice
- Games Game
- Skins Virtual goods
- Football
- Capture the flag
- Negative feedback
- Positive feedback
- Ties Tie (draw)
- Dynamic game difficulty balancing
- Quantified Quantification (science)
- Fairness Game balance
- Pong
- Turns Turn (game)
- Chess
- First-move advantage First-move advantage in chess
Balancing process
- Genre
- Aesthetics
- Emergence
- In game purchases Games as a service
- In-game advertising
- Monetize the game Video game monetization
- Loot boxes Loot box
- Frustrating Frustration
- Matchmaking Matchmaking (video games)
Methods and tools
- Determine Determinism
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- The Last of Us The Last of Us (video game)
- Grounded
- Mario Kart
- CC Engine displacement
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Sonic Generations
- Practice effects Practice effect
- Gamemaster
- Proactively Proactivity
- Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (video games)
- AI Artificial intelligence
- Left 4 Dead
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Biofeedback
- Intuition
- Causalities Causality
- Orthogonal Orthogonality
- Level of measurement
- Scrabble
- Klondike Klondike (solitaire)
- Strange Adventures in Infinite Space
- Statistics
- Tier list
- Empiric
- Fighting game
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Nodes106
Edges105
Triples42
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018868
Components1
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Game balance
Top relations
related to overview · 13
Game balance → Adam Millard, David Sirlin, Ernest Adams, Extra Credits, Game, GMTK, Ian Schreiber, Jeannie Novak, Jesse Schell, Most, The, This, YouTube
related to Buffs and nerfs · 10
Game balance → Both, Buffs, However, It, MMORPGs, MMOs, Nerf, The, This, Ultima Online
related to Overpowered and underpowered · 9
Game balance → Colloquially, For, If, More, On, OP, RPG, The, UP
related to Dynamic and static balance · 4
Game balance → An, Dynamic, Game, Static
related to Game mechanics · 4
Game balance → Game, Like, These, They
is a · 1
Game balance → branch of game design with the intention of improving gameplay and user experience by balancing difficulty and fairness
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Game balance | is a | branch of game design with the intention of improving gameplay and user experience by balancing difficulty and fairness | 0.90 | text |
| one pawn in chess | instance of | or success depends on a very small advantage | 0.80 | text |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | Buffs | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | Both | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | The | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | Ultima Online | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | Nerf | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | However | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | It | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | MMORPGs | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | This | 0.60 | section |
| Game balance | related to Buffs and nerfs | MMOs | 0.60 | section |
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