Game Design Tests

Game Balancing — Advanced

Advanced balance leadership: metagame dynamics, live service cadence, confidence intervals on metrics, exploit response, cross-mode parity, and ethical monetization pressure on combat fairness.

Game Balancing — Intermediate

Intermediate balance craft: TTK and DPS budgets, power curves, snowballing, catch-up, PvE vs PvP tradeoffs, patch discipline, and reading segmented telemetry.

Game Balancing — Beginner

Foundations of game balance: fairness, dominant strategies, rock-paper-scissors, buffs and nerfs, playtests, and basic telemetry. Practice-oriented for designers and liveops newcomers.

Progression Systems — Advanced

Advanced progression architecture: curve modeling and retention coupling, cross-system power budgets, exploit surfaces, competitive vs RPG tracks, live-ops rollback, infinite endgame loops, and narrative-mechanical alignment at scale.

Progression Systems — Intermediate

Intermediate progression craft: XP curves and diminishing returns, metag progression in roguelikes, milestone and battle-pass alignment, returning-player catch-up, telemetry signals, and economy-linked gates without pay-to-win traps.

Progression Systems — Beginner

Foundations of game progression: XP and levels, unlock trees, soft vs hard gates, session vs metag progression, and fair pacing for new players. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement.

Core Loop — Advanced

Advanced core-loop craft: nested loops, economy coupling, anti-exploit pacing, segmentation, live tuning, ethical retention, and diagnosing loop collapse in production telemetry.

Core Loop — Intermediate

Designing and validating the repeatable minute-to-minute loop: actions, feedback, rewards, session pacing, onboarding, metrics, and common failure modes in live and premium games.

Core Loop — Beginner

Core Loop professional knowledge. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement. Focus: beginner Core Loop.