Competitive Stages Are Actually The Best Casual Stages, Too

I've written about competitive vs. casual fighting game player preferences before, but here I'd like to focus on just platform fighting game stages.

Of course, what better showcase of this topic than beginning with the Super Smash Bros. series? By far the most popular games in the platform fighting game genre - it has a healthy dose of both competitive and casual players to consider.

Novelty vs. Predictability

A question I posed in my previous blog post on the topic is how do you measure fun for...