Game design: dark patterns that keep you hooked

Image source: Defaced on Dribbble. Canvs Editorial. UX Collective – July 2, 2021.

There might be another reason why you are so addicted to your game.

For someone who plays video games a lot, I realize how easy it is to get sucked into a game and play for hours at a time, but this can be a problem if you are playing a game INTENTIONALLY designed to be played for hours at a time.

More often than not, game designers are regarded as advocates for players, but sometimes their interests may not align with those of players’. These underhanded strategies are called dark patterns. Here’s a research paper that discusses dark game design patterns in detail. […]

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