There’s a patent on the game mechanic?

googled it

Yup, that is crazy. At least it’s only for another 11 years. Just think about how old you will be before you’ll ever see that game mechanic again.

Which games are those?

That sounds really cool.

Thanks for the reply.

This seems like a great way to ensure that the player can’t beat the level. I assume there’s a maximum difficulty where the enemy is still possible to beat?

Also, when does the boosted difficulty reset for the level? After beating it? I am not a fan of frustrating games, so I can’t even imagine playing a game like this without just quitting.

What is the mechanic? I’ve never played it.

It happened to a friend who wasn’t passing in the proper types into their stored procedures, all strings, and “null” (not case sensitive) conflicted with actual null values. Everything in the web interface were strings, and so was null.

For some people it takes this mistake before they learn to always care about the data types you’re passing in.

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