Tag: Games

  • A walled garden — with zombies

    A walled garden — with zombies

    Well, after reading more about the psychology of free-to-play games, I’ve finally given up Sim City BuildIt once and for all (… but probably not for long). (For the record, SCB wasn’t by any means the worst offender in the free-to-play world, but it’s an enormous time-suck nonetheless). However, after being subjected to maybe a…

  • Possibly proving you’re an idiot

    Possibly proving you’re an idiot

    There is a game called Homescapes whose ads subject you to an endless loop of an animated hand attempting —and failing— over and over, to solve a simple logic problem. There are tons of games like this out there, each of which asks you to manipulate a series of gates so that your nemo-fish escapes…