1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
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Dr. Zoidberg
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1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
In this 2019 GDC talk, game developers Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott explain how they set out to determine the lowest bar for success on App Stores. Take a fantastic tour of the weird, dark underbelly of the mobile app market, and learn what the pair discovered when they flooded the market with over 1,500 auto-generated slot machine games.
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Roofus
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Re: 1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality
I downloaded 3D Excessive Hair Slots from one of those APK mirror sites and it's not horrible. It's a pretty standard shovelware slots game. I'd be baffled about who made it and why it exists if I hadn't seen the video though. 