{"id":410,"date":"2015-11-30T19:14:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2015-11-30T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:14:04","slug":"game-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/game-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate Game of War"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a really fun mobile game I’ve been playing recently: AdVenture Capitalist.<\/a><\/p>\n

A shameless Cookie Clicker<\/a>\u00a0ripoff (sorry in advance if that’s the first time you’ve seen that – there goes all your free time), the premise is simple: buy things that make you money so you can buy more things. It’s good fun, and it runs even when you’re not playing, so you can dip into it whenever.<\/p>\n

The really clever bit is that you can do certain things in-game to accelerate your profits. There’s the obligatory in-app purchases of course. But you can also choose to speed things up by watching an ad in the app. This is the first example I’d seen of this, though it’s becoming more commonplace. It’s advertising, but it’s non-intrusive and totally opt-in. So it’s ok.<\/p>\n

The ads themselves are mostly for other mobile apps you might be interested in; Candy Crush Saga and that kind of thing. And of course there’s the omnipresent Game of War<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s kind of a mashup of lots of things you’ve probably heard of:<\/p>\n