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Advanced balance leadership: metagame dynamics, live service cadence, confidence intervals on metrics, exploit response, cross-mode parity, and ethical monetization pressure on combat fairness.
Intermediate balance craft: TTK and DPS budgets, power curves, snowballing, catch-up, PvE vs PvP tradeoffs, patch discipline, and reading segmented telemetry.
Foundations of game balance: fairness, dominant strategies, rock-paper-scissors, buffs and nerfs, playtests, and basic telemetry. Practice-oriented for designers and liveops newcomers.
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.
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.
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.
Advanced core-loop craft: nested loops, economy coupling, anti-exploit pacing, segmentation, live tuning, ethical retention, and diagnosing loop collapse in production telemetry.
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 professional knowledge. Mix of single-answer and multiple-answer items; multi-select questions ask you to select every correct statement. Focus: beginner Core Loop.
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