About this episode
The episode discusses the prevalence of 'Pick 3' mechanics in video games and their impact on gameplay.
Much like how everything is crab, everything in games seems to increasingly be 'Pick 3'...well, not EVERYTHING, but it sure is becoming prevalent. You level up, 3 options appear, you pick 1, and then play for another minute until you have to pick 3 again. When it's great, it's fantastic, but as it becomes more pervasive will the charm wear off? MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► https://crub.org/join BlueSky ► https://bsky.app/profile/crub.org Come join our Steam group ► https://steamcommunity.com/groups/crubclub Podcasts are available on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms are available at ► https://crub.org SHOW NOTES Here's a free post on our Patreon of us checking out The Spell Brigade, an online co-op Survivors game: https://www.patreon.com/posts/checking-out-157909409 Some of the games mentioned... The Pick 3 Slop Website: https://pick3slop.com/ Gambonanza (they sent us a code, but just linking this…
People in this episode
Host: Crub
Topics covered
- game mechanics
- Pick 3
- game design
- video games
- game trends
Keywords
- Pick 3
- game mechanics
- video games
- game design
- trends
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