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Let’s talk about challenge in games. Winning is satisfying, but if the player realizes they can’t lose, the fun of the challenge wears thin quickly. For challenge to be fun, players need to perceive a risk of failure.

The subjectivity of this difficulty sweet spot is why we see different difficulty levels, more or less challenging modes, adaptive difficulty and slow difficulty ramps.

Developers try to find the sweet spot of having enough challenge to make the victories maximally satisfying while minimizing the amount of players who drop off because it’s too difficult.

This is not to say harder is better — It’s the feeling of a big accomplishment that matters. If the negative feeling becomes too long or severe without sufficient release, players will (rage)quit. Not enough of a challenge and players will be bored with that challenge.

. but a big reason a limited amount of negative feeling is useful is that the release felt from overcoming the challenge — the cause of those negative emotions — makes the victory that much more satisfying. I sometimes half-jokingly refer to this as pain & release from pain.

It’s interesting, psychologically. When the player feels risk that they might lose it creates tension, when failure feels imminent it’s stressful, and actually failing can be frustrating.These aren’t pleasant emotions for players, but….