How do you make an addictive video game?

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This episode will change how you look at games. We talk to Ben Brode, the designer behind Hearthstone and Marvel Snap, about how a creative person learns to make the things they love, and about the secret ideas hiding in games as simple as rock-papers-scissors. If you'd like to support the show, head to our newsletter. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Search Engine, I'm PJ Vote. Each week we answer a question we have about the world, no question too big, no question too small.
0:07.0	This week, how do you make an addictive video game? Like, addictive to me, personally, I will interrogate the person who made the addictive iPhone game that ruined my life.
0:17.0	That's after Smads.
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1:04.0	and the uh,
1:05.0	and uh... uh... uh...
1:07.0	uh...
1:08.0	uh... uh... uh...
1:11.0	... ... Hello!
1:17.0	Hi, how's it going?
1:19.0	Great, good morning.
1:21.0	I'm so excited to talk to you.
1:22.6	I feel like I know you from watching a million videos where you explain meta changes.
1:26.4	But this is different, very exciting.
1:31.7	I'm going to read you the intro I wrote and it's pretty
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