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Basics of Game Design
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Basics of Game Design

by Michael Moore
April 2016
Beginner
400 pages
11h 59m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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meanings to the term. On the one hand, statistics can refer to nu-
merical values assigned to players in sports games—for example,
ERA (earned run average) and RBI (runs batted in) in baseball.
ese statistics or “stats” help the public compare one player with
another to determine who is the better pitcher or batter. e other
meaning of statistics is the branch of mathematics concerned with
collecting and analyzing numerical data, as in probabilities and sta-
tistics. Unless otherwise indicated, statistics in this book refers to
various classes of data assigned to units in a game and are referred
to as a
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