Creation Ideas

Continuing my little series of blog posts (Parts 1 and 2.), I present the final part!

As promised I'll talk about the platforming genre and how progressive difficulty and save points could affect it. But first I just want to take some points from the comments section and highlight them.


From Burnvictim42:

Wow. I totally love this idea. I tend to place unlimited lives at my bosses as they can be rather annoying at times, and if you get to the end of the

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Oi! School's diverted my attention from what's really important! Sorry for the empty days.

Alright, back to business.

In part one of this blog mini-series I talked about how LBP seemed to be lacking in the seemingly basic idea of progressive difficulty in a level. I also talked about how I felt that a save mechanism should be implemented into your levels when it fits, as explained in Part 1.


So now the question is: where do these ideas apply ...

It has occurred to me suddenly, as most ideas often do, that whenever people discuss difficulty in a LBP level, it's always either "I'm making an easy level/I'm making a pretty hard level/I'm making a hardcore level" or something along those lines.

...But...

Since when was difficulty so black and white? For whatever reason, I feel that probably every single creator I've seen has overlooked the idea of ramping up difficulty as a level -- or series! -- progresses. ...