When Game Design Meets the Law: Loot Boxes, Dark Patterns, and Regulatory Risk

Loot boxes and deceptive design practices (a.k.a. “dark patterns”), are perennial issues in the video game industry, as they remain key levers for monetization in the free-to-play meta. This CLE course provides an overview of how loot boxes butt up against gambling regulations, and common practices in game and UX design that in isolation may be unproblematic but nevertheless can lead players into making choices they otherwise wouldn’t have made, especially in tandem. Landmark cases are... More Info