Lesens-, hörens- und sehenswerte Fundstücke aus der Welt der Spiele.
David Stark: Why I Made A Game That Isn’t Fun
- “Pay to skip the wait. Pay to remove the limit. Pay to get a boost, skip the ads, make the numbers go up faster. Sandstorm is a game that was sparked by a conversation about the intentionality of these kind of mechanics, and the idea that a game could be purposefully unfun.”
Hamish Black: John Wick Hex and the Problems of Adaptation
- “You can see what they were going for, but in practice [John Wick] Hex ends up being too inconsistent to be a puzzler and too rigid to be an action game. It just lies awkwardly in the middle.”
Jim Sterling: Are Automated Bots A Deceptive Con?
- “If you don’t know that it’s all pretend times, you think you’re winning. And if you think you’re winning you’ll feel encouraged to keep playing. […] And the more you play, the more you’re entrenched in that game’s economy. And the more entrenched in the economy you are, the more tempted you may be to spend cash on it.”
Neo Magazin Royale: Coin Master – Abzocke mit Fun
- “Simuliertes Glücksspiel birgt einige Gefahren: Zum einen wird durch Normalisierungstendenzen eine positive Einstellung gegenüber Glücksspiel begünstigt. […] In letzter Konsequenz schürt dies den Wunsch auch mal um echtes Geld zu ‘zocken’. Junge Spieler sind dafür besonders anfällig.”
Razbuten: What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn’t Play Games
- “Watching [my wife] work through this early section [of Hollow Knight] and seeing the different ways that she viewed the game got me thinking a lot about the language of video games, and just how much a person’s level of video game literacy affects their experience with any given title. […] So I decided to run an informal experiment…”
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