Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Systems of Chaos and Complexity


Chaos theory is something that is happening randomly during an event that is actually predictable. The butterfly effect is a common trope where it involves time travel and the "what if" cases during the storyline changes the moment of choices which results in two significantly different outcomes.

Complexity theory has many different layers. From the basis of Complex theory we have the system theory which involve goal of principles that can be applied to all types of system in any form of research. Emergence is the integrative levels of the complex system where bby it creats patterns and multiply it which inturns make a simple interaction.

I love playing games that has multiple outcomes. Could be a dating sim game or other games as well. Firstly because if the options are fixed to a certain ending it's going to be very boring because players are being forced to go in that direction and there's no other way out. Like quizzes, when i take quizzes there are bound to have some question that either of the answers is something that you want to choose from but you can't just skip the question and go to the next one because they require for you to do so.

Games that are highly open ended are games like the sims etc. People that didn't know how to play would find it boring because they thought all you do is control this sim and fulfill what it needs and its easy but i should say that it is not easy to play it because each decision will trigger something to happen for example when you are hungry obviously you will cook and eat but what if you're cooking skill is not high enough and you cause a fire, player doesn't know what to do and in the end burns to death. Well it's very easy to die in sim because when it gets too hungry it dies. Well they do have an option where by you can let your sims roam freely so they know that the need to eat when they are hungry but who knows, it's just an A.I and sometimes it just does nothing even though it's hungry.

Pictures taken from:
http://www.emergenceingames.com/index.php?p=1_5_Games
http://oliteratico.co.cc/warhammer-chaos.html

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