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Maíra Testa
@mairatesta.bsky.social
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narrative designer, chaotic scribe at Time Singelo and writer at BEHEMUTT, prev. King
en, pt-br
scattering my personal views and opinions across the world wide web, including mairatesta.com
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I realize once again I’ve come to the internet to say “mobile games are bad but the devs are not” so can I just say some mobile games are very good!! also devs can be bad (even if I can count in one hand the number of people I’ve crossed paths with who were absolutely not caring about their players)
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
yeah so many are made in a style that is purposefully generic and unfortunately very genAI friendly
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
so I don't agree that casual players are more receptive to genAI, I think the numbers game just doesn't really care about how the numbers come to be
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
a LOT of people who work in these games care deeply about the games they are making, and how they are made, even if they must dance the free-to-play / weird ads / follow the market dance to make a living. And it's a reality of the format that things need to be fast and need to make numbers go green
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
mobiles games as its own industry tends to see players as big demographic blobs because the numbers are really that absurd, so no backlash is ever big enough to make a dent when you hit a certain size where you have millions of players coming back every day
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
a few factors here: dozens of games that deliberately look like other games come out every day, and there's an insane wheel of big titles doing what other big titles are doing. It makes genAI use less "visible" because the order is to follow the money; it's an extreme numbers-driven niche of gaming
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
não foi estipulado que tipo de banana. Nanica? Prata? Ouro? Da terra? Defina banana
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
só pode
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Congratulations on completing in ten minutes the task you put off for two months. Here, have a pain au chocolat
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM