Boredom Games V2 -

Reach for a pencil. Look at your friend. Ask, "Do you want to play a game that doesn't exist yet?"

Dr. Sandi Mann, a psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire, argues that boredom is essential for creativity. When we immediately reach for a phone (V1), we kill the "incubation period" where novel ideas are born. boredom games v2

Boredom Games v2 severed that bridge. The modern idle game is aggressively solitary. Even when "multiplayer" modes are introduced—leaderboards, guild wars, chat functions—they are asynchronous. You are playing alongside people, not with them. We are all bored together, yet entirely alone. Reach for a pencil