skill floor
noun1
Video games The minimum amount of skill required to be considered competent at some game or activity.
- Coordinate term: skill ceiling
- Hey, I like all the VS, it's just the skill ceiling may not be as high as on some other games. But I feel the difference is far enough from the floor that it provides a decent spread among players in the area. The problem comes in when the skill ceiling is close to or even ON the skill floor.1999 February 21, Kid Vid, “VS=Good Game”, in alt.games.sf2 (Usenet):
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- Yeah, just you. If we set 3-ball cascade as the skill floor of juggling, 5 ball cascade is not an extremely low level.2004 February 29, Scott Kurland, “poi/juggling communication invitation”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):
- There's an old game design maxim: good games take minutes to learn but a lifetime to master. Another way to say this is "low skill floor, high skill ceiling."2009, Steve Swink, Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation, Boca Raton, F.L.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 302:
- Enter Gnar, Azir, Kalista and the upcoming Rek'Sai. These are champions with considerably elevated skill floors – they’re simply difficult to play any kind of competently.2015 December 5, Julian Aidan, “Complex Champions Means Longer Life For League Of Legends”, in Hardcore Gamer, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2022:
- There may be no better example of how low the skill floor can go than getting literal toddlers to play Mario Kart and actually exercise a modicum of control over what's happening on screen: Kinect is the only other platform for which I can imagine that happening.2018 January 9, Dave Thier, “It Turns Out You Can Get A Baby To Play 'Mario Kart 8' On Nintendo Switch”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020: