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.

  • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There are plenty of deterministic physics engines. In this case I don’t think it would make sense to add extra complexity to rig the result, this mini game already has plenty of obstacles to make getting max points hard. What they might do is fuzz the plunger input randomly so you can’t memorize the perfect location and get max points every time.