Jordan Brown - Game Design Documentation Samples
Unlike Bell’s other pilot stats (Precision, Reaction Speed, and Max HP), Leadership does not progress through word selections in the Poetry Phase. Instead, each time Bell successfully Defects an enemy using Hail in the Combat - Main Phase, Leadership increases a small amount. Since a higher Leadership stat makes it easier for the player to trigger a Defect, increasing Leadership through Defect forms a positive feedback loop. As the game progresses and Bell’s Leadership grows, Defecting enemies becomes a more viable strategy.
We need to be careful to ensure that increases in Leadership don’t snowball; we don’t want the player to plow through the game with little to no effort.
Since Leadership increases a small amount every time the player Defects an enemy, it can increase very little or a lot throughout the game, depending on the player’s desire to avoid violence.
If we want Leadership to not snowball while leveling off at around 4, we can use a logarithmic function to calculate Leadership progression.
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