• Do players know how to play my game immediately, or do I need to explain it?
• Does my game share similarities with other games that I can highlight?
• Does my game encourage exploratory trial and error?

• Lens of Difficulty
• Lens of Experimentation

Cogs is a puzzle game that uses a timer and move counter to give players restrictions on their solutions. Before throwing players into the puzzle, they show a help screen to give players an idea of what to expect.

At the current time, there are no available tools.

At the current time, I am not aware of any metrics.

The lens is industry standard.

Goal-setting

• Schell, J. (2008). The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann.

Daniel Jost