Despite being a game it told this intimate story about your relationship with this one other character. Yep, the relationship between Chell and the Weighted Companion Cube is one I'll never forget.
You all are getting too hung up on the strategy genre thing. The main thing is that fast paced games requiring more attention created the effects. The guy chose his words poorly in the quote. Personally, I wonder how long the effects lasted. Whenever I hear about this stuff wonder ...
It's a nice feature for people who don't/won't/can't use credit cards. Teens come to mind, and credit cards are a lot less common in some countries. The gifting stuff is nice, too. It'd be neat to be able to put money in people's accounts --who knows, maybe this will replace ...
That was fast. I really would have been interested to see what would have happened if they had gone through with it. I mean in terms of trolling and jerkishness, not the murdering and face eating everyone was expecting.
@Blake: I think it's a stretch to call Ariely's exercise a study. It was, presumably, one class and the process might not have been too rigorous. And he doesn't say if he told them it was an experiment or exercise up front. But there IS a body of scientific literature ...
Great read and a nice summary of the fun vs. revenue tension that a lot of developers must be experiencing. I've kind of tried to be neutral about the use of psychology to influence player behaviors in my own writing, but others are certainly reacting strongly to it and making ...
Man, you guys have great comments in here, way more than I can reply to since I'm supposed to be doing my day job right now. Thanks, though I love the tone of the conversations.
Thanks for the comments, all I'm looking forward to sharing more articles here. @John Smith: not my wording, but it seems clear to me that anyone not saved will die and anyone not killed will be saved. @Blake Schreurs: I think that's exactly why loss aversion is so powerful -- ...
