Winter: Hard Game Levels Motivate Users to Learn Advanced Concepts
Nick Winter · Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator · Oct 26, 2013 · at 3:37
At Startup School 2013, CodeCombat co-founder Nick Winter responds to Paul Graham's question about whether games can force players to learn advanced programming skills.
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“And generally, if you make the levels hard enough, which you're able to do when they have a reason to complete it, they try really hard, then you can get them to do harder and harder stuff as a natural progression of the game.”
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