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Game Design is the process of deciding the rules and mechanics of a game, and solving balancing problems to achieve the intended play experience. For questions about design of software code, use the Software Engineering or Algorithm tags instead. Likewise, questions about visual design should use Art or Graphics tags.
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Have any video game designs used non-uniform random numbers in interesting ways?
I use Poisson distributions quite a bit - mainly when trying to work out the number of times that a random event should occur within a period of time.
This has the nice property that the distribution …
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Is it legal to make a game out of a book?
You can't copyright ideas or game mechanics. That much should be obvious from the number of "clone" games around. So you can make a game that exactly followed Quidditch rules without much worry.
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