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Quotes About Balance

The level designers have to know, for example, that by the time the player reaches the fourth level, he will have earned three major weapon upgrades and a faster vehicle, so they set the difficulty of the fourth level's challenges relative to that level of power provided.
~ Ernest Adams
In the most general sense, a balanced game is fair to the player (or players), is neither too easy nor too hard, and makes the skill of the player the most important factor in determining his success. In
~ Ernest Adams
Design Rule The Story Comes Later Do not spend a lot of time devising a story at the concept stage. This is a cardinal error frequently made by people who are more used to presentational media such as books and film. You must concentrate most of your efforts on the gameplay at this point. Types
~ Ernest Adams
As a general principle, the pacing of a level in any game, especially a game with physical challenges, should alternate between fast and slow periods, just as the tempo of movements in a symphony or the levels of excitement in an action movie vary. Players need moments to rest, both physically and mentally, and on the whole, the faster the pace of the level, the more important rest becomes.
~ Ernest Adams
The one-legged never stumble.
~ Ernest Brammah Smith
As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.
~ Ernest Cline
The world's population was fast approaching ten billion people, and Mother Earth was making it abundantly clear that she could no longer sustain all of us
~ Ernest Cline
It's cool to use the computer, don't let the computer use you…. There is a war going on. The battlefield's in the mind. And the prize is the soul. July 19, 1999
~ Ernest Cline
You know: "dogs and cats living together Ã¢â'¬Â¦ mass hysteria!
~ Ernest Cline
The bottom of the egg was weighted, so it wobbled slightly before standing perfectly upright—like a Weeble. (Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.)
~ Ernest Cline
I'd realized that the best thing for my mental health would be to abandon social media altogether.
~ Ernest Cline
Admittedly, all the time I'd had to devote to the game had shaved a full point off my grade average, and it had probably cost me my relationship with Ellen, too.
~ Ernest Cline
Kira Underwood was right, when she said that life was like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. But sometimes the game can have a surprise ending….
~ Ernest Cline
You know: "dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!
~ Ernest Cline
Female creatures owned the world, Howard thought. The earth itself was female. The shop was female. The females knew everything of beauty and desolation—he
~ Ernest Hebert
A hand has five fingers each one of unequal length so also in life its good to follow the moral of the goldilocks and the three bears story-my opinion.
~ Ernest Hello
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
~ Ernest Hemingway
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
~ Ernest Hemingway
Everything you took from you gonna give it back
~ ernest hill
The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
~ Ernest Jones
Was he so ignorant of human nature as not to know that a comfortable bank balance and an appreciation of good food and tobacco and well-cut clothes and jewels can go perfectly well in practice, in normal beings, with the keenest sensibility to the spiritualities of art?
~ Ernest Newman