This will be my last Gödel, Escher, Bach reference for a while, I promise. This echoes gound that (I think) Raph covered in his Theory of Fun. This is, it seems to me, a general principle: you get bored with something not when you have exhausted its repertoire of behavior, but when you have mapped … Continue reading Final Hofstadter
This weekend I played a flash fantasy adventure game. Its content runs through nine levels, but it has a Diablo-style level generator that provides random maps with scaled up enemies, presumably endlessly. Many games have a version of that: levels keep rising with pure procedural content. Infinite levels show an issue common to many games: … Continue reading Power/Difficulty Curves
In terms of creating new content, the players I want are achievers and socializers. They are the easiest to satisfy. Killers Maybe I should want killers. Many seem to prefer no updates at all. All the new PvE content in the world is useless to them, unless there is something new to harvest that could … Continue reading Chewing Through Content
You can play Dungeon Runners for free, with no limit to time or levels. You can go sign up right now, play until the level cap, then start a new account and do it again. Your $4.99 per month buys you the full features. You cannot equip the top three tiers of items unless you … Continue reading Dungeon Maintenance Fees