TY - ECHAP
AU - Katta Spiel
AU - Sven Bertel
AU - Fares Kayali
AB - Difficulty in TETRIS is adjusted by adapting the speed with which blocks fall. In this contribution, we describe results of an exploratory study in which we investigated relationships between players  performance and their subjective assessment of difficulty and fun. We tested five different algorithms that, instead of adjusting game speed, adjust difficulty by choosing blocks based on the current game state. With our results, we establish pile height and bumpiness as parameters that indicate the performance of a player during a live game, discuss the inherent difficulty of different block choosing algorithms and show how the relationship between fun and perceived difficulty varies for distinct player groups. With regard to adapting difficulty, we argue that one can still teach an old dog such a TETRIS a lot of new tricks.
BT - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CY - New York, NY, USA
N2 - Difficulty in TETRIS is adjusted by adapting the speed with which blocks fall. In this contribution, we describe results of an exploratory study in which we investigated relationships between players  performance and their subjective assessment of difficulty and fun. We tested five different algorithms that, instead of adjusting game speed, adjust difficulty by choosing blocks based on the current game state. With our results, we establish pile height and bumpiness as parameters that indicate the performance of a player during a live game, discuss the inherent difficulty of different block choosing algorithms and show how the relationship between fun and perceived difficulty varies for distinct player groups. With regard to adapting difficulty, we argue that one can still teach an old dog such a TETRIS a lot of new tricks.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
PP - New York, NY, USA
PY - 2017
SN - 9781450346559
EP - 5126–5131
T2 - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TI - "Not Another Z Piece!": Adaptive Difficulty in TETRIS
UR - https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025721
ER -