adaptive gameplay
@AlanZucconi
GAME➡PLAY
designing a
how you
play➡game
the way you
determines the
what does it mean
for a game to be
hard?
the "diablo" way
Archer Goblin
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Barbarian Paladin
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difficulty
relative
IS
Adaptive difficulty
Setup
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R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Adaptive difficulty
Player killed by Archer
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Archer Goblin
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Adaptive difficulty
Player kills Goblin
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Archer Goblin
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ADAPTIVE DIFFICULTY
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ADAPTIVE DIFFICULTY
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dungeon generation
DUNGEON GENERATION
⇜ W I D T H ⇝
VS
DEPTH
But...
why!
☹
and
Convergence
Joint events
ÜBER ENEMIES
PROS
and
CONS
ADAPTIVE GAMEPLAY
@AlanZucconi