This is lovely. I saw this title pass by here before someone introduced the game to me, and I had to look this back up! I guess I’m hooked now, in a safe way. It’s also worth watching Josh Wardle’s talk about his social game experiments at Reddit. The motivation behind them aligns with Readup: adding sensible restrictions to an online system that encourage positive social behavior. With Wardle’s inventions it’s often a time restriction. Readup has a read-restriction.
Wordle’s simplicity makes me think: what if we built a Readup articleoftheday.com site, with just that? (example domain: probably not gonna spend 2k+ $ on this)
Great Read! ReadUp version of word games and with similar philosophies of simple with no flashy ad distractions nor trying to addict the player for hours on end:
While other games send notifications to your phone hoping you’ll come back throughout the day, Wordle doesn’t want an intense relationship.
“It’s something that encourages you to spend three minutes a day,” he said. “And that’s it. Like, it doesn’t want any more of your time than that.”
I’m in. Will try today.
Update (1/4/2022):
I played and got the word on third try as a first timer. I dig. One and done for the day- I love that it is as simple as that daily.
Update (1/4/2022):
Thanks DeepDave for ReadUp-info this little jewel onto our radar.
Revelation: it’s Readup without the capital U! 🙈🙉 but I don’t think any of us minds 😄. Excellent scouting indeed, this article also first brought the game to my attention.
The breakthrough, he said, was limiting players to one game per day. That enforced a sense of scarcity, which he said was partially inspired by the Spelling Bee, which leaves people wanting more, he said.
This is lovely. I saw this title pass by here before someone introduced the game to me, and I had to look this back up! I guess I’m hooked now, in a safe way. It’s also worth watching Josh Wardle’s talk about his social game experiments at Reddit. The motivation behind them aligns with Readup: adding sensible restrictions to an online system that encourage positive social behavior. With Wardle’s inventions it’s often a time restriction. Readup has a read-restriction.
Wordle’s simplicity makes me think: what if we built a Readup articleoftheday.com site, with just that? (example domain: probably not gonna spend 2k+ $ on this)
Great Read! ReadUp version of word games and with similar philosophies of simple with no flashy ad distractions nor trying to addict the player for hours on end:
I’m in. Will try today.
I played and got the word on third try as a first timer. I dig. One and done for the day- I love that it is as simple as that daily.
Thanks DeepDave for ReadUp-info this little jewel onto our radar.
Correction: ReadUp-ing
Revelation: it’s Readup without the capital U! 🙈🙉 but I don’t think any of us minds 😄. Excellent scouting indeed, this article also first brought the game to my attention.
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This is really awesome:
Interesting. I only wish I liked word games. No doubt they are exercise for the brain.