Submission + - Make Your Game Easy. Then Make It Easier. (blogspot.com) 1
spidweb writes: Gaming blog The Bottom Feeder has an article on game difficulty. The big idea: Unless the player specifically asks for a game to be hard, it should always be really easy. The instinct to punish a player is almost always a bad one. From the article, "If your game is actually fun, killing the player won't make it more fun. But nothing sucks all of the fun out of a good game faster than repeated failure. I can almost hear the heads of hardcore gamers imploding with impotent nerdrage. But seriously. If you have a problem with this, I think you're getting a lot of your fun from making other people have less fun."