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qznc on Dec 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Doing Game Gravity Right

Determinism really does matter. You want it for debugging. Also for replays, if your game has that feature.

Arelius on Dec 18, 2012 [–]

I think a significant amount of released games would argue that point pretty strongly.

Sure, it makes some things easier, but it comes at some cost.

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