Difficulty modes for supertux

[korbanpapa]

So, being one who has completed the story mode worlds (and all the contribution worlds, sadly 🙁), it's gotten kinda sad seeing everything completed, so I would like to suggest a new feature of having a difficulty button in the options menu for people who are more experienced players in the game, just so people don't get bored afterwards wondering if a new world will come out soon. Also, by having this feature, it will probably make people want to stay after all the story mode levels have been completed, and try doing them in a different mode.

Suggestions for changing difficulty:

Option one: For a harder mode you could add double the enemies or something similar.
Option two: Also for a harder mode, you could try giving the enemies multiple lives or have them respawn.
Option three: Don't have powerups in the levels, or make them rare. You could also try replacing them with tux dolls for the shops instead.
Option four: Add more spikes, lengthen levels.

Now, the reason i suggest this is because it would probably make people stay longer, increase the challenge of the levels, and add more variety. Remember, this would mainly be for official levels, you can decide whether you want it for community levels and such. Please give your thoughts on the matter, i really want to hear more ideas for this.

If the modes are implemented here are options:
Hard
Normal
Easy
If you think of anything else you want to add to this, please do.

[rttyg46305Unj]

I dont think this will be implemented.

[korbanpapa]

We'll let the team decide. It probably won't get implemented, but it will probably make people stay in supertux longer... And that's kinda the goal. Also, if you want to talk to anyone casually, here's a link to IRC: ircs://irc.libera.chat/#supertux 😁

[Frostwithasideofsalt]

I don't understand the point of stuff like this- if you want harder content, just start making your own harder levels or start doing challenge runs, like playing levels without powerups or whatever. Doing stuff like extending levels seems like a waste of time as new levels could just be made instead, and having enemies re-spawn seems strange to me.

[korbanpapa]

All I'm saying is once people complete all the levels, what are they going to do? eventually they'll just end up reloading the add-ons every two seconds, wondering if there will be a new add-on within the next year. Just saying, i feel like there should be at least SOMETHING else to do afterwards.

[korbanpapa]

Also, the levels have to be approved, so that takes time as well... I'm just trying to find a solution for this, but I doubt there is one.

[Frostwithasideofsalt]

if you've played every addon and fully 100%'ed everything, just play a different game.

[Frostwithasideofsalt]

At the point in which you've fully done everything, it's up to you to create your own challenges or even levels, as the level editor is right there. and if that's not enough, games aren't meant to be played forever. check out neverball, pingus, STK, or just something else in the meantime if you've truly done everything. Hell, there's a gamebanana page for supertux which has a handful of other addons, alongside other old sites for ST addons if you really need supertux stuff specifically. But it's not like we should just add random stuff like "double enemies" or "re-spawning enemies" to make replaying the same old levels slightly different.