Game Balancing

Game Balancing

A222

Poll

Tetris: Chance or Skill?

• Chance

• Skill

Negative feedback

Positive Feedback

Avoid Stagnation

​Avoid Trivialities

Q & A

Review Fun Test

Topic 12

Multiple Select

A balanced game is:

• Makes the skill of the player the most important factor in determining his success.

• Fair to the player(s)

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• Neither too easy nor too hard

• Makes sure the player keep dying in the game.

Multiple Choice

A well-balanced PvP or PvE game provides meaningful choices & a player’s skill must affect success.

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Additional balance requirements for PvP are:

• Players perceive the game to be fair

• Level of difficulty must be consistent, without spikes or sharp drops

• A player who falls behind should have opportunities to catch up

• Game rarely ends in a stalemate

Multiple Choice

________ costs are costs that are not immediately apparent.

• Extra

• Light

• Shadow

• Economy

Multiple Choice

Rock-paper-scissors is a concept used in a _______.

• Intransitive relationships

• Transitive relationships

Multiple Choice

_______ unit differentiation is a unit that is not simply more or less powerful, but uniquely different.

• Orthodontist

• Orthodox

• Orthodoxal

• Orthogonal

Multiple Choice

Persistent worlds are always symmetric and always intrinsically balanced.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

______ difficulty must increase over time to counteract the player’s growing in-game experience.

• Absolute

• Relative

• Perceived

Multiple Select

How can positive feedback be controlled?

• Don’t give too much power as a reward

• Increase the power as a reward

• Raise the absolute difficulty level of challenges as the player proceeds

• Introduce negative feedback

Multiple Choice

The following statements describe which strategy?

1. a strategy that reliably produces the best outcome a player may achieve, no matter what his opponent does

2. undesirable because a player has no reason to use any other strategy once she has discovered the particular strategy

• Dexter

• Dorsal

• Dormant

• Dominant

End of Fun Test

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