Making difficulty curves in games - Stuff Made By Dave
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The games industry is weird because we are always trying to create systems that keep the game just hard enough to stop people from seeing the rest of the product. My thought process all started from this Tweet: We agonised over this when we made lemmings and we took a long time smoothing the difficulty curve and we broke up the step changes into different sections, like chapters rather than difficulty settings. This let the user choose and set expectations. — Russell Kay (@RussellKay) May 23, 2018 What is a Difficulty Curve? So briefly when I talk about a difficulty curve I’m talking…
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