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by jka 1619 days ago
There's something (multiple things, in fact) about Wordle that seems magical; so to your question, I think that small, free, respectful games that freshen and invigorate the mind and provide for entertaining social conversations will be huge.

In some ways they already are (outside the realm of technology) - but Silicon-valley-flavoured tech enterprise has tended to choose darker paths that eclipse those properties in favour of profitability and power.

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I wouldn't limit this just to games! Many of my favorite and most used tech and websites are labor-of-love or common-good projects like internet archive, sci-hub, libgen, github, and uBlock origin. Notwithstanding the ascendancy of the monetize at all costs mentality, there is a strong lingering undercurrent of "information wants to be free" in the tech community. Long may it prosper!