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Episode 83 - Grinding

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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Grindstar and Progress Quest

In the early 2000s, a game called Progress Quest was something you could download. You just played it in a very simple window on your computer and the game would play itself for you. And then months later, he found out that somebody hit level 10,000 by rigging up a game controller to repeatedly click the A button on the controller for them so that they could just click the grind button until they reached level 1000. The funny thing is it's like grind, grind star was not even the first game like this.

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