/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General★

Are there any such timing tests which already has stats? I can only find reaction tests which dont help me.

so basically you want to nerf jumping on higher difficulties? why does this sound like a bad idea? i made a platformed and with the same problem i just stretched out the jumps the farther the player got in so the players where trained in on how far they could jump but where able to learn how to time them as they made it farther into the game. having difficulty change how the player moves, wouldn't that just train them to move their timings around to when they start on a easier difficulty level to train their timings, wrong for the harder difficulty? sounds like a bitch way of modifying difficulty on the fly for players. while you could just make new levels with longer, more demanding jumps.

>>26992 (OP)

Learn English first.

That frankly sounds like a terrible idea. You usually can play easy or normal mode to get into the game, and when you get comfortable/bored with that, you play at higher difficulty. If a different difficulty fundamentally change how jumping works, the player can't really use the easy mode as a stepping stone for the next difficulty. I want to learn the physics and controls, so please don't screw with that.

Come to think of it, going to the options menu and changing the difficulty setting is kinda boring. You can instead offer the player to adjust difficulty right in the game, by having primary and secondary goals. In the context of parkour, you can have some time limit that doesn't trigger game over, but it's about the character getting a medal or not. A more specific idea relating to jump distances: You can design the levels in a way that they can be cleared with doing a ledge-grab only once, and doing that no more than once is relevant for getting gold.

A platforming game should have it's difficulty come from the level design, not the player's movement.