two kinds of buzz - playing and making. making is easy for the reasons outlined by protomyth. playing, i think, is NP-hard, and that makes games really addicti

two kinds of buzz - playing and making. making is easy for the reasons outlined by protomyth. playing, i think, is NP-hard, and that makes games really addictive. see this research: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.4420v3.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1001.4420v3.pdf which talks about flood filling games as being NP-hard. there's a satisfaction we get when we succeed that tickles our humanity in a unique way.