"This is an impossible challenge." Friction by Design; Diversity in Scoring

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! · May 15, 2025

In this episode the club house talks about the games that they have been playing. Mark attempts to define the terms good friction and bad friction, declares his distaste of rouge-likes, and talks about friction in his current projects. Lydia shows us how to make scoring sound way more academic.

Civilization VII

Age of Mythology Retold

Blue Prince

0:18:21

Friction by Design

Mark tries to define some terms: Good Friction - something that was designed into the game, or that could be described as a bug, or only confuses a player Bad Friction - unintentional friction

0:45:47

Diversity in Scoring…