Wojtek Borowicz

Not another piece about AI! Haven’t we suffered enough this year? Look, you’re right. I hate that I can’t open the fridge without hearing about AI, too. But bear with me. If nothing else, this will be short. And I promise I’m not going to try turn you off generative AI. People more knowledgeable than me already covered the environmental, labour, and copyright issues, the technical limitations, and the craven individuals and corporations operating the largest models.

Sharing a meal with the Gertners in Pentiment. (Screenshot by me.) Food is a crucial part of daily life for every person — and it’s a vital part of our cultural experience. What kinds of food we consume, how we consume them, and with whom says a lot about us as people and the community in which we live. In storytelling, food can play an equally important role, revealing information about the characters and their world.

Your difficulty curve has a major role to play in preventing players from churning in your games. They show the balance between skill/resources and challenge: low difficulty is when a player’s skill exceeds the challenge of a game, and high difficulty is when the game’s challenge exceeds the skill of the player. A well implemented difficulty curve can stop players from getting bored, motivate them to watch rewarded videos or make in-app purchases (IAP), and push them to keep progressing.