Progress Wars
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Progress Wars
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#2So it's kinda like Progress Quest (http://progressquest.com/), except that you have to keep clicking a button?
I prefer my RPGs to be fire-and-forget, thank you very much.
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#3So it's kinda like Progress Quest ( http://progressquest.com/ ), except that you have to keep clicking a button? I prefer my RPGs to be fire-and-forget, thank you very much.
I think that the continual button pressing actually increases it's stickiness.
It's pretty much the absolute minimal behaviorist game, one button and a variable reward schedule.
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#4What, no badges?
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#5Relevant essay: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ww/high_challenge/
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#6This may be a take on this Penny Arcade comic. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/3/12/
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#7What, no badges?
I think most of us can agree that we don't need no stinkin' badges
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#8So it's kinda like Progress Quest ( http://progressquest.com/ ), except that you have to keep clicking a button? I prefer my RPGs to be fire-and-forget, thank you very much.
Maybe in an upcoming version you'll be able to buy virtual currency to make the progress bar advance faster.
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#9This could easily be re-branded as carpal tunnel wars.
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#10It really needs a message board so that you can brag about how far you've gotten, and so that the old timers can give advice to the noobs.