Tag Game Difficulty

Essays, Game Design, Playing Games

Obstacles and Expression

Difficulty can serve several important roles in a game’s design: It can create an aesthetic sense of danger and foreboding, it can make the actions of the player feel more consequential, and it can push the player to vary their…

Problem Machine
November 10, 2017

Diagnosticism, Essays, Game Design, Narrative Design

Adaptive Difficulty

Adaptive difficulty is a game design concept that held a great deal of traction for a little while but has seemingly fallen out of favor recently. “The player should be challenged at all times,” is the ideal, “but never actually…

Problem Machine
April 22, 2013