The Randomizer/Randomness tool

There has to be a way to make true randomization based on coding outside of the game, I would hope... :) It would make it possible to make RPG's with a random tolerance in the amount of damage given to an enemy per turn, or a roll of the 'dice' for any board/strategy game, right?

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Originally Posted by miltonTPS

There has to be a way to make true randomization based on coding outside of the game, I would hope...

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Short answer: No,
Long answer: Well, sort of.
Proper answer: Computers don't do random, but they can mimic it well enough to fool us, and that is what counts ;)

Confirmed!!! In a video of someone building a UFO of some sort. I saw a switch that was shaped like a question mark and said "Randomizer" :p

You quite late either way :p

I wunder how they do the random. If I would do it, I'd take the system clock, and feed the numbers to an ridiculoysly complex algorithm.

Computers can't pick one completely random, can they?

A truly random number is actually always based on something. Called a "seeded" random generator. So for example, you base your random number generator on the temperature outside Mm's office.

I like the system clock idea. Hours minutes seconds equals output

But that's only pseudo-random.

or... year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond + time of day in UK + amount of time played by creator= output

That's random because of the amount of time played by the creator.

They don't need to do a weird algorithm involving times and dates, etc. because most coding languages have a Math random function anyway that would be more than good enough for triggering random events in LBP2.

No algorithm would ever be random anyway. Computers are incapable of choosing a random number, they have to use some sort of method.

In programing there common function used in many many systems in it's core, called rnd(). it randomize (somehow.. what ever they use it works good) number between 0 and 1, with few digits after dot, by multiplying, dividing and rounding (round(), floor())ect .this number you can practicly get any form randomness what ever you want. In other words rnd() method is philosopher stone of randomness ;]

And one more point, usally hardware (CPU?) or system kernel taking care of randomization and software developers don't have any control over this.

The Math random function has to have a varying "seed" number of something ;D