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Video Game Addiction A guide for navigating a world of infinite entertainment (erikhoel.substack.com)
1 point by paulpauper on Jan 24, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



On finite games:

- Text/graphics adventures. Once they are completed, save from a few ones with prodecural puzzles and different endings, they are done. On text adventures, you can save down the transcript to read it later for a good story re-read.

- Tetris machines. Once you surpass a score, often the score mark rolls back to 0.

- Sokoban. Ofter there's only a single way to solve them, and most level sets are known and are the same everywhere else. You can think about it as a word puzzle magazine, or a Tangram. Once you solve one or two, you quit to do something else.




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