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The rise of dark patterns in mobile games: How you're being manipulated while you play

Recent research analyzing 1,496 mobile games found over 85,000 instances of dark patterns: deliberate design choices meant to manipulate you into spending more time and money than you intended. These ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

How to prevent ‘purposefully neglectful’ UI/UX dark patterns in F2P mobile games

Edd Coates is founder of Game UI Database. Game UI designers use references to iterate on existing design patterns and provide players familiar, intuitive experiences. This allows us to onboard them ...
Kotaku

Pattern Thinking Puzzle Build It Before 10

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Pattern Thinking Puzzle Build It Before 10 ★☆★★☆[?]★ ←What symbol goes in the [?]? Train your programming brain with a fun puzzle game! Games metadata is ...
Kotaku

Arrow Patterns

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Arrow Patterns Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com This is just the beginning of the improvements we are promised, and it's still pretty poor ES Fulghor ...
TechCrunch

What Games Are: Flappy Bird, Patterns And Context

Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer and creator of leading game design blog What Games Are. He manages developer relations at OUYA. You can follow him on Twitter here. It’s nice to ...