Jake Lawrence on Nostr: The Pull is a card-pack game where the cards don't just exist, they confess. Each one ...
The Pull is a card-pack game where the cards don't just exist, they confess. Each one names the dark pattern behind it: variable ratio reinforcement, artificial scarcity, the near-miss effect. The deck is a working loot box and a dissection of loot boxes simultaneously.
Building the engine for it meant implementing the exact mechanics I was critiquing. That part felt predictably uncomfortable.
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/blog/a-skinner-box-that-confessesPublished at
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