Measuring the level of difficulty in single player video games

Aponte, Maria-Virginia; Levieux, Guillaume; Natkin, Stéphane

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2011.04.001

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“…The game designers can use this freedom to make an AV+PO game richer than it appears at first sight, as in FnF. But they can also find it harder to tune the game's difficulty when the players get more freedom [1]. First, the designer cannot make the system enforce rules on player's actions the system is not aware of.…”

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Designing tangible video games

Pillias

Robert-Bouchard

Levieux

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Designing tangible video games

Pillias

Robert-Bouchard

Levieux

2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Another approach regarding difficulty was presented by Aponte et al [1,2]. The authors define a generic mechanism for assessing difficulty starting by splitting gameplay elements into measurable items.…”

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Difficulty in action based challenges

Mourato

Birra

Santos

2014

Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology

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In this paper we extend the existing metrics for estimating difficulty, directed to action games (in particular, platform videogames) and taking into account different types of challenges. Specifically, we analyse how challenges are represented in time and space and observe the players' behaviour when facing such challenges. Accordingly, we propose a set of models to predict the probability of failure and success in different situations. This type of assessment can serve as a validation mechanism for automatic level generation algorithms and also to perform adaptive difficulty techniques. As a final point, we analyse multiple gameplay information retrieved from gaming sessions, in which 40 users performed over 10000 trials in different types of challenges. We have verified that the main hypotheses behind the proposed metrics are applicable and the estimators are valid approximations to the players' behaviour.

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“…Otherwise, in the field of video games, the division of scenarios into several levels is also fairly standard. Moreover, this division is based mostly on the nature of the challenges featured (Aponte et al, 2011). Björk and Holopainen (2005) made a design pattern called 'Levels' which summarises the concept of breaking down game scenarios into several components: "A level is a part of the game in which all player actions take place until a certain goal has been reached or an end condition has been fulfilled".…”

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Model and authoring tool to help teachers adapt serious games to their educational contexts

Marne¹,

Labat²

2014

IJLT

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After a study, we established that one of the obstacles of the adoption of serious games (SGs) by teachers was that they cannot shape their educational scenarios to their specific teaching context. The work we present in this paper tackles the general problem of designing tools to help them customise the educational scenarios of SGs. Our approach is to provide a model suited to describe SGs that are composed of several stages, and to provide its implementation in an authoring tool in order to help the teachers to visualise, modify and check the consistency of the scenarios. The evaluation of our model shows that it is capable of describing most of the SGs we targeted, and the first user tests of our authoring tool prototype are also promising.

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Measuring the level of difficulty in single player video games

Cited by 52 publications

References 5 publications

Designing tangible video games

Designing tangible video games

Difficulty in action based challenges

Model and authoring tool to help teachers adapt serious games to their educational contexts

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