Gaming Calculator

After dropping your last match of the evening, you stand up with sore eyes, even though you’ve been sitting still. What gives? It’s not usually the game, it’s your inability to blink on cue while staring at a bright light for too long. Until it hurts enough to distract, you tune out all physical signs. … Read more

There’s also a kind of anxiety you get with three hours left on your run, and you’re realizing that maybe section four was a bit ambitious. Every second you don’t make a jump or hesitate a little the problem grows. It feels like an hourglass with sand dribbling down faster and faster, and gap is … Read more

The split timer on screen turns red. You realize you f’d up the jump sequence. Your momentum is lost, now what? You feel like throwing down the controller, reloading the save file, but those urges is not going to improve your game in the long term. Now it’s time for a cold calculation, can I … Read more

Tournaments are a beast with many moving pieces. There’s a strict timeline, a bunch of player eager to play, and a bracket structure that needs to stay intact. How do you plan for the delays? These delays aren’t related to gameplay. They are things like setup times and controller swaps. They also include score reporting … Read more

Sometimes, when a game tells you that you’re 70 percent done, you get annoyed because you suspect the dev team only counted main story as half of it. And yet you have this high percentage on your screen, but your save file is so empty. For most gamers, completing things is just a checklist; if … Read more

At some point in every player’s life they open their digital library of hundreds of games and question if it was all worth it. They purchase games based off promises of adventure, yet the price tag never shows how little thought they actualy gave to the decision. The playtime cost per hour calculator turn the … Read more

Until you know how to do the math, it’s hard to organize a tournament. Single elimination is easy. Round robin is exhausting. For big fields, Swiss systems is fairer then both. But fairness comes at a cost: time and table management. Run too few rounds and you’ll never get enough resolution; people will go away … Read more

It’s your turn to play: You’re sitting in the lobby waiting for the match, and you’re already worried that your team will be lost. Most of the time, it won’t be due to pure bad luck; rather, it’ll have something to do with spread of skills among teammates and whether that spread align with your … Read more

For their inaugural game tournament, they had six teams playing each other in the first round. It was supposed to be an hour. It ended up taking them three and a half hours. Because one, the organizers forgot that changeovers add up; two, players need to go to the bathroom; and three, people forget where … Read more

When you sit down for those initial placement matches, you have a singular goal in mind: to hit your true skill level without wasting three weeks climbing back up from Bronze. So, yes, you’re anxious, it’s the nature of the beast. In the calibration stage, the matchmaking system gets to find the relative value of … Read more

Skill plus psychology lead to series of promotions. By this time, you’ve prepped, practiced and are ready to go, but now it’s come down to something that seems so arbitrary, a matter of nerves. A lot of times it isn’t about being the most talented. For player, it’s more about handling pressure during each match … Read more

Inventory panic is running out of room in your bag mid-dungeon run. It happens in all sorts of games; from massively multiplayer online games to survival simulations. You come across that rare item you’ve been searching for, only to discover you have half-stacks of arrows and herbs scattered throughout your inventory. Time to drop the … Read more