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I disagree. This is exactly the kind of thing creates juiciness [1][2] in games. Just don't put it in my tax forms.

[1] https://emshort.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/make-it-juicy/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg <-- I'd recommend anyone who cares about making and/or understanding games to watch this talk.



Wow, that talk is fantastic. I think a lot of it applies to regular web interaction design, too, except that there you probably need to be more subtle.


I guess that I enjoy cleanliness over pizazz. I would argue that it should really only be used in juicy environments. Put it in Peggle, but not in any email client, my tax forms, anything where I'm trying to do something that isn't purely fun.




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