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Cow Clicker
Ian Bogost built it in 2010 as a satire — a cow, a click, a six-hour timer — and watched people play it sincerely, which is the most useful thing written about the form.
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The arguments against.
Ian Bogost built it in 2010 as a satire — a cow, a click, a six-hour timer — and watched people play it sincerely, which is the most useful thing written about the form
The sharpest criticism of mobile game design came from people who make games and study them. A section for the arguments against — and for the vocabulary that separates pacing from pressure.
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A Casual Revolution
Jesper Juul's argument that casual players are not a lesser audience but a different one, with different tolerances.
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Dark patterns
Where pacing becomes pressure, and the design vocabulary for telling the two apart.
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