How 1,500 Auto-Generated Slot Games Tested the App Store

GDC Festival of Gaming · Talk · 1 h 0 min · 2019 · YouTube title: 1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

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HN commenters recommend it as a hilarious account of mass-produced app store shovelware and cite it in threads on spam and low-quality content.

What it covers

In this 2019 GDC talk, Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott explain how they flooded the app stores with over 1,500 auto-generated slot machine games to find the lowest bar for success. They tour the dark side of the mobile app market.