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The Power of Progress Bars

Posted on20. Feb, 2011 by Michael Gugel.

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The effectiveness of progress bars in ProgressWars really blew me.  So much so that it inspired me to create my own version.
I’ve been wanting to learn how to code PHP, so I created Level Up, a simple “game” whose sole objective is to click a button and increase your level.  It was a great project to [...]

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