> Full respect to the author, and I'm sure they knew exactly how contrarian they were being.
Yes, Ian Bogost is a respected game designer and developer.
Yes, Ian Bogost is a respected game designer and developer.
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> The goal of the game is to earn "clicks" by clicking on a sprite of a cow every six hours. [...] A premium currency known as "Mooney" allows the user to purchase different cow designs and skip the six-hour interval between clicks.
This doesn't really sound "successful" in the traditional sense.
I'm not sure the "traditional sense" of successful was what he was going for. However, it was successful, nevertheless.