This week, Luke - inspired by the outstanding speedrun of Final Fantasy by Gyre & Feasel during 2017's AGDQ charity marathon - decides to take a close look at the system that the original Final Fantasy uses to emulate randomness while under the constraints of a tight memory and processing power budget.

Luke dissects the "Step Counter" that is used to determine enemy encounters, how encounters are populated, and the not-so-random random number table that Final Fantasy uses to create the illusion of randomness, what has transferred over into the present day, and how the system implemented can be exploited in a casual playthrough in the present day.

ThursDev is a weekly series where the NPCs talk about aspects of game development, teach about tools of the trade and offer tutorials in various game dev disciplines. Focused around development principles relevant to small-to-mid-sized developers, indies, hobbyists & hopefuls alike, the series includes basic tutorials, genre retrospectives, thoughts on relevant emerging trends in the games industry and game development theory, methodology and philosophy.

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Luke Rideout (Project Manager at Hothead Games): Game Design & Production
Jon Wood (Project Manager at Current Studios): Production, Sound, PR & Games Journalism
Matt Goodmanson (Senior Artist at Silverback Games): 2D & 3D art

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