Quote Originally Posted by code_glitch View Post
In other words, as long as the challenge is big/daunting/tough enough the simple fact of saying "I did that" tends to be quite rewarding
That is true in a way. But if you having to tough challenge can repel many of potentional contestants. So it is imperative to set challenge difficulty acoring to the knowledge of potentional contestants. And this is where there is a big difference between PGD chalange and Ludum Dare.
You see with the diference of PGD chalanges where you can program only in pascal in Ludum Dare you can program in many different programing languages and we have to admit that most of them are much more popular in game development than pascal. This means that there are much more potentional contestants for Ludum Dare than for PGD competitions so Ludum Dare can ford to have dificult challenges.
But we here on PGD can't aford to have to demanding challanges becouse with our challenges we tend to atract new pepole into game programing and this in many times means pepole with less expirience. So having to tough challenge will repel most of theese from even entering the competition.