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Game studies

Costikyan's typology of the sources of uncertainty, such as randomness, hidden information and player unpredictability, that keep games engaging.

In game studies, uncertainty in games refers to costikyan's typology of the sources of uncertainty, such as randomness, hidden information and player unpredictability, that keep games engaging. This meaning comes from Costikyan (2013) in Uncertainty in games.[1]

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References

Costikyan, G. (2013). Uncertainty in games. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262313582

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