Скачать или смотреть Courtney Liessen: Cheating the System (By Design!) for Epic Combos

Some games are designed with player-directed "cheating" in mind, where you build up a character with broken-seeming combos that make you feel like you're exploiting the game by growing your power exponentially. The Roguelike genre, in particular, has many examples of this phenomenon, benefitting from its coolness while having the built-in counterbalance of a frequent progress reset. In this talk, I'll discuss some of the reasons why these kinds of power escalations feel so good, approaches to balancing them, how they might apply to various genres, and how to design and implement them in a way that tips the scales into "cheating" rather than just "here's a stronger weapon". Done right, players will feel like they've done something even the game's developer didn't anticipate!