• davehtaylor@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    One horrendous trend in mobile gaming in the last several years are the match/merge games. People truly cannot grasp exponential change, and these devs exploit that.

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      1 year ago

      Match-3 is simple and keeps getting taken up by overly-monetized shovelware. I don’t have a problem with the concept of a match-3 game itself, though. Could you explain how people are being exploited and what it has to do with exponential change? I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

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        1 year ago

        Advancing a game means merging and creating new items. You start with merging two items. Then two of those items can be into another one. Then that can be merged into another , and so on. It’s an exponential system