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Standard measurement of difficulty

Ok, here's a question that all of you must have ppondered to some extent in the process of game design: How do you measure the degree of difficulty of a task?

There needs to be some standard measure of difficulty, so that one could say, for instance, that getting to the third floor from the second in Wolfenstein is twice as difficult as getting from floor 1 to floor 2.

In particular, for reasons I can't go into, I need such a measure - one that can be used to compare one game to another.

This is not such an unusual requirement - in many competitive fields such measures are used, from the finely graded "Courses of Fire" defined by the National Rifle Assoc to the rough-and-ready "number of kills" used by fighter pilots. (I say "rough-and-ready" because that flag painted under the cockpit doesn't distinguish between a one-on-one against the Red Baron in a Mig-29 versus what the Frisbee pilots call "killing baby seals")

It is also evident that there is more than one type of skill that needs to be measured - reaction-time is one; intellectual ability is another.

So - what do you think?

Dan Killoran
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