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Edd Coates is founder of Game UI Database. Game UI designers use references to iterate on existing design patterns and provide players familiar, intuitive experiences. This allows us to onboard them ...

DarkPattern.games is a website that evaluates iOS and Android games based on the amount of dark patterns they contain, categorizing games with fewer dark patterns as 'Healthy Games' and games with ...

Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, has abandoned development of Minecraft-alike Patterns, leaving the game in the limbo of Early Access. They told Steam users that "we have ceased development for ...

Recent research analyzing 1,496 mobile games found over 85,000 instances of dark patterns: deliberate design choices meant to manipulate you into spending more time and money than you intended. These ...

Dark patterns are designs that intentionally manipulate user behavior, typically used to encourage users to spend or engage more than they intended. Wilson cites common examples such as hotel booking ...