The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

People don't just stop playing Facebook games. They divorce them.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.