Dark Patterns (with Sam Liberty)

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! · May 28, 2026

Your nice hosts have talked a lot over the years about exploitative game design, and this week we brought in an expert on gamification to lay out some of the dark patterns in games that take players' money and time via deceptive framing and UX.

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