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Challenging versus Punishing in video games

April 9, 2016

A friend of mine and I have had a discussion about the nature of difficulty in gameplay—what changes to a basic design make it harder to reach a state of victory, ideally increasing the sense of reward when the player reaches that state.  I would suggest, and will talk at length here, about how games … More Challenging versus Punishing in video games

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