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Jun 10Liked by Indieklem

Very interesting article

Curious your opinion on a couple of my favourite loading screens

Test Drive for PS2 let you play pong while you waited

Often resulting in me sitting in the loading screen

Cause it's done, but "hold on one more game of pong" would usually happen

Or No Man's sky flying through a starfield with camera rotation control

Reminiscent of the old pc screensaver I would spend hours as a child staring at

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Thanks for sharing your experience :)

I think all these examples fit perfectly with “helping players stay or switch to active mode”.

If you're playing pong or flying through a star field, you're active.

Dynamic messages are the same thing, but it's “easier”: you're not playing at the time, you're just reading a text.

I remember an addon I downloaded while playing wow classic, which let me play mini-games while traveling on a flight path (which can be very long). Same mood :)

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