theorycraft
English
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[edit]theorycraft (third-person singular simple present theorycrafts, present participle theorycrafting, simple past and past participle theorycrafted)
- (video games) To analyze (especially mathematically) the underlying mechanics of a video game in order to optimize or minimax one's gameplay.
- 2014 July 15, Theck, “TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting”, in Sacred Duty[1]:
- Sometimes, the person asking only has a vague understanding of what it means to “theorycraft.” Most players already know that theorycrafting produces numbers that can be used to evaluate performance and ask questions, of course. But what most players don’t know is how those numbers are produced from beginning to end.
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[edit]theorycraft (countable and uncountable, plural theorycrafts)