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Re: Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

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You have all that with Gacha pulls and battle system.

The battle system is too rudimentary to capture the essence of gacha. Insofar as gacha lends itself to gameplay mechanics and not just monetization, deck/teambuilding is absolutely integral. Obviously, the game is a parody, but even as a parody I think it does a poor job of capturing that aspect of building and experimenting with your deck/team. Which is fine, not a criticism of a silly little app, but the person I w…

> The battle system is too rudimentary to capture the essence of gacha

Gacha is not related to battle systems at all. wordpad was referencing the random awards from the battle system as another funnel.

Constantly trying to no-true-scotman what Gacha means, is not definitive or compelling.

Re: Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

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Where can one find good research on the human psychology around these patterns? They're fascinating (ideally more towards gaming, not the casino side of it though I understand the crossing between both)

Not exactly on the "casino" nose, but "100 things every designer should know about humans" by Weinschenk has a lot of these principles outlined (backed up with academic references).

Re: Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

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Do people like slot machines at casinos?

At least money falls out of a slot machine... This is just rolling a dice and seeing what number you get. Seriously, that's all it was for me... where are the battles people spoke about?

You have to play for longer.
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