{"id":2198,"date":"2014-01-16T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T09:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/16\/of-course-average-score-on-its-own-is-also-not-a\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:54","slug":"of-course-average-score-on-its-own-is-also-not-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/16\/of-course-average-score-on-its-own-is-also-not-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Of course, Average Score on its own is also not a great solution, and Average Score With Tweaks risks becoming too complicated for players to care. On a positive note, Spelunky\u2019s Daily Challenge is the closest I\u2019ve seen so far to an excellent solution to the high score problem. It\u2019s clever, simple, and representative of general Spelunky skills. The only problem with the Daily Challenge is that posting a very high score in Spelunky involves a lot of somewhat tedious ghost mining. Also, I\u2019m not good enough to do it, so it\u2019s gotta be flawed somehow.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionproblem.com\/inmachinam\/?p=102\">Streak Scoring in 868-HACK | In Machinam<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Fun post discussing the problem of high scoring in 868-HACK. That last sentence got me.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, Average Score on its own is also not a great solution, and Average Score With Tweaks risks becoming too complicated for players to care. On a positive note, Spelunky\u2019s Daily Challenge is the closest I\u2019ve seen so far to an excellent solution to the high score problem. It\u2019s clever, simple, and representative of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/16\/of-course-average-score-on-its-own-is-also-not-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}