Game Design Trade-Offs and Balance

Design decisions often involve a ______ where opposing elements must be considered.

Finding the perfect level of ______ is crucial for engaging different types of players.

Designing with the target audience in mind helps to set the game's standard level of ______.

Adjusting a game's difficulty typically modifies values like enemy density and damage ______.

The best approach in game design may involve focusing more on ______ mode features than on balancing multiple difficulty settings.

The accuracy of simulating behaviors and phenomena may be directly or inversely proportional to the game's ______ value.

Abstract games can hook players more easily because they provide immediate ______.

In economic simulations, gameplay revolves around discovering the hidden ______ between player actions and their consequences.

A flight simulator has realistic flight physics and controls, resulting in a very steep learning ______.

Realism in games can lead to boredom if it includes long wait times and ______ device failures.

Diluting the realism of the experience too much can take the ______ and immersion out of the game.

Players often have certain assumptions about in-game items, such as firearms, based on their ______ representation.

Whether a game is a simulator or not can determine how closely it reflects actual ______.

Modeling reality can improve ______!

In games, structure is often contrasted with ______.

Players in management games can perform a large number of various ______, within the game rules.

Story-driven games often provide one ultimate goal or a series of major ______.

An example of a game that focuses on a strict path from start to end is a visual ______.

Mood in a game can affect how empowered the player feels compared to the ______ they control.

Players often find compelling storytelling enjoyable, as human beings have been entertained by ______.

If a game's scene's lighting is too low, most players will have difficulty seeing, impacting their overall ______.

Players of a new game who are familiar with other games of the same ______ can easily get started.

Innovative games are relatively difficult to explain to new ______ / playtest.

The trade-off affects design decisions concerning game mechanics and ______.

A game with elaborate, detailed, or varied gameplay will take a long time to ______.

Probability that all players will stay from beginning to end of a game session is inversely proportional to the number of ______ and the game's duration.

Multiplayer sessions, if part of your game, should be as ______ as possible.

A game can be a clone of a well-known game, which implies a sense of ______.

If a game does not fit under any current ______, it is considered innovative and completely new.

Pace defines the rhythm of the game, determined by comparing the amount of time required to perform a complete set of actions to the workload that has to be handled in that time period, which is measured in ______.

Turn-based games with no turn time limits have a very slow ______.

Empire-building games target a patient ______.

Broad and fast-paced games must not be too ______ so that the player can still manage.

Deep and broad games should have a slow ______ so that players can perform without unnecessary pressure.

For action games, keep in-game, non-cutscene story segments ______ to let the player focus on the fight.

A broad, deep, and fast-paced game would overload the player's human ______.

The trade-off in game design is arguably the most influential when it comes to a game's motor skill ______.