Static and Dynamic Difficulty Level Design for Edutainment Game Using Artificial Neural Networks

Wong, Kok Wai; Fung, Chun Che; Depickere, Arnold; Rai, Shri

doi:10.1007/11736639_58

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“…With the progress of the games, the players' skills increase gradually. To maintain players' motivation and enjoyment, the challenge should increase accordingly (Andrade et al, 2005;Wong et al, 2006). Thus, this study proposed that the first direction was continuous change.…”

Section: Difficulty Of Direction Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The players will feel being when they encounter a task demanding skills and/or knowledge beyond their current capabilities (Van Velsor and McCauley, 2004). Wong et al (2006) considered that ''level of difficulty" was an important area in level design for games, which directed the effectiveness of a game in generating engaging experiences for the players. The difficulty level controls various conditions in a game.…”

Section: Game Difficultymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another type of difficulty level design allows the game to dynamically adjust the difficulty level based on the player's ability. And the aim of studies on dynamic difficulty (Wong et al, 2006;Hunicke and Chapman, 2004;Bailey and Katchabaw, 2005;Kalyuga and Sweller, 2005) was to explore the feasibility of providing customized levels of difficulty to both novices and experts. However, dynamic difficulty adjustment it is not easy to achieve dynamic difficulty adjustment, which few games incorporate while most games provide static adjustment.…”

Section: Game Difficultymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For game designers one of the major tasks is to design a game of challenging difficulty to maintain the interest of a player (Wong et al, 2006). However, the goal of game design is to concentrate on the process of play for players rather than the result of that process (Barr et al, 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The other is about the guidelines of game difficulty; for example one guideline recommends games to be ''easy to learn, hard to master; the level of difficulty in games should be varied" (Desurvire et al, 2004;Federoff, 2002;Pagulayan et al, 2003;Sweetser and Wyeth, 2005). The method of making the players feel immersed is to provide a challenging difficulty level with the development of the game (Wong et al, 2006). However, few studies have focused on the basic quantitative exploration of difficulty design in a section of a game.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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a b s t r a c tThis study investigates the effects of game difficulty on player's immersion. Key factors in this study are difficulty of direction changes, including three directions (up and down, down and up, and continuously increasing) and difficulty of rate changes, with three rates (slow, medium, and fast). An experiment was conducted with 48 participants, each playing the same experimental games with different difficulty of direction or rate changes. The results indicate that the players have better immersion when the difficulty changes up and down than when it changes down and up or when the difficulty is continuously increased. And the participants have better immersion when the difficulty changes at a medium rate than when it changes slowly or fast.

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Static and Dynamic Difficulty Level Design for Edutainment Game Using Artificial Neural Networks

Cited by 7 publications

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Effects of different scenarios of game difficulty on player immersion

Effects of different scenarios of game difficulty on player immersion

Design for Experience

Adaptive Computer Game System Using Artificial Neural Networks

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