Uncovering deceptive patterns in video games

Common gaming elements, like guilds and battle passes, can manipulate players into spending more time and money in-game than intended.

Camryn Manker
UX Collective
Published in
9 min readSep 6, 2023

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The gaming industry has something to offer for almost everyone — you can build your own worlds, defeat monsters, solve challenging puzzles, battle your friends, or…

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