Difficulty balance questions

There are a lot of questions about our game that we need to consider in our game design. A review of the questions in this section will help us gain an appreciation for the issues that even a simple game such as ours must contend with to achieve the desired difficulty balance.

This first set of questions are related to the overall implementation of difficulty in our game:

  • Should we have different levels of difficulty, selectable by the player?
    • How many different difficulty levels should there be?
    • What will the difficulty levels be called?
    • What specifically will be different with each difficulty level?
  • Should we have multiple game levels, each with an increased amount of difficulty?
    • How many different game ...

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