Boss Rush Banter: What Makes an Excellent Tutorial Level in a Game?

You fire up your platform of choice to play the brand new game that just released. After all the installations, updates, and bonus items you might receive, you are hyped to start the quest you’re about to take on. After a cool intro, you come to the main menu, and just after you press start, you say to yourself “I wonder how this game plays?” Unbeknownst to you, all you have gone by with were CGI trailers and potential game play clips. You are left with a dilemma, but not to fret, you assume there’s a tutorial in the game to teach you.

Instruction booklets have gone away, and learning the controls and game play have moved into the actual game in the modern age. There’s various ways how tutorials have been presented. For most people, they think they know how to play a certain type of game because of…