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How And Why Social Games Hide Failure
In today’s Gamasutra feature, Badgeville’s Tony Ventrice looks at how social games offer competition to players but also try to hide their failures and allow them to break fairness. Examining how competition against other players and/or systems makes games fun, Ventrice points out that while almost everybody likes to win, obviously very few enjoy losing. “The very reason that competition is so appealing — the thrill of victory — creates an equal opportunity for being …
