Game industry folks in town for CES, come gather for drinks at Insert Coins (2 for 1 drinks w/ badge!) on Tuesday night after IgniteVegas!
Or better yet, come watch me present at Ignite, then drink with me!
The larger man spoke. He gestured while doing so.
“You teach the player how to play the game in one minute. Within that one minute, you give them in-game money. You make them spend all of that money to buy an investment that will begin to earn them profit. They build a thing. It says: this thing will be finished in five minutes. Spend one premium currency unit to have it now. You happen to have one free premium currency unit. The game makes you use it now. Now you have a thing. Now it says to wait three minutes to collect from that thing. So they have a reason to stick around for three minutes. When those three minutes are up, you tell them to come back in a half an hour. You say, ‘You’re done for now. Come back in a half an hour.’ The phone sends them a push notification in a half an hour. Right here, you’re telling them to wait. You’re expressing to them the importance of patience. They’re never going to forget the way it feels to wait a half an hour after playing a game for one minute. They’re going to forget the second time they wait for a half an hour, and the third time, and they’ll then not forget the first time they have to wait for four hours, then twenty-four hours. This is why they’ll start to pay to Have Things Right Now.”
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New trailer for the Level 5 and Studio Ghibli collaboration Ni No Kuni. Available on PS3 in Japan this fall, here’s hoping we see a US release soon after.
(Source: arcade-lounge.co.uk)
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