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Published at December 6

Level Up or Game Over: Exploring How Dark Patterns Shape Mobile Games

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Released Date: December 6, 2024

Authors: Sam Niknejad¹, Thomas Mildner¹, Nima Zargham¹, Susanne Putze¹, Rainer Malaka¹

Aff.: ¹University of Bremen

Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05039v1

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	Healthy Games (N=653)			Dark Games (N=843)
Category	Total	Average	SD	Total	Average	SD
Temporal	3167	4,85	23,82	18,630	22,09	69,67
Monetary	2781	4,26	23,67	26,330	31,24	97,66
Social	990	1,52	10,42	11,835	14,04	55,10
Psychological	3296	5,05	22,34	18,359	21,78	74,93
Total	10,234			75,154