Control Difficulty

Teaching Difficulty

E.g. Celeste: jump+dash → jump+grab → jump+dash+grab

Increase difficulty

Flavors of Difficulty

Depth of Gameplay

Personalize Difficulty

• Difficulty options

Effective but admit being weak feels bad

• Different challenges

E.g. In Open world games, players can select different routes of different difficulty.

Also, leave room for players to challenge themselves.

• Grinding

Allow players self-adjust difficulty. (works but disrupts rhythm)

• Modifiers

E.g. Celeste

• DDA

E.g. Left 4 Dead AI Director