Video game with learning metrics

In a video game in which a player's performance in playing the video game provides input to the video game, a method comprising:

• presenting to the player a challenge that is overcome when the player's input satisfies a predetermined game condition;
• receiving input from the player in a plurality of attempts to overcome the challenge;
• and
• for each attempt:
• deriving a learning award as a function of the input received from the player to overcome the challenge;
• and
• deriving a learning velocity as a function of:
• change in the learning award derived for another said attempt;
• and
• the number of attempts.

A video game system comprising:

• a game console having memory and a processor;
• an input device compatible with the game console;
• a video game executed on the game console and receiving input from the input device to control one or more player-selected activities, wherein:
• the one or more player-selected activities are initiated in respective one or more attempts to satisfy a predetermined game condition;
• when the one or more player-selected activities of one said attempt satisfies the predetermined game condition, the video game executed on the game console:
• derives a learning award as a function of the control of the one or more player-selected activities;
• and
• derives a learning velocity as a function of:
• change in the learning award derived for another said attempt;
• and
• the number of attempts.