2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Scaling the Level of Difficulty in Single Player Video Games
verfasst von : Maria-Virginia Aponte, Guillaume Levieux, Stéphane Natkin
Erschienen in: Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2009
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this this paper, we discuss the interest and the need to evaluate the difficulty of single player video games. We first show the importance of difficulty, drawing from semiotics to explain the link between tension-resolution cycles, and challenge with the player’s enjoyment. Then, we report related work on automatic gameplay analysis. We show through a simple experimentation that automatic video game analysis is both practicable and can lead to interesting results. We argue that automatic analysis tools are limited if they do not consider difficulty from the player point of view. The last section provides a player and Game Design oriented definition of the challenge and difficulty notions in games. As a consequence we derive the property that must fulfill a measurable definition of difficulty.