Chess is deep but it's not complex. Starcraft is both deep and complex. Candy Cr...

krisgee on Feb 2, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How in-app purchases have destroyed the game indus...

Chess is deep but it's not complex. Starcraft is both deep and complex. Candy Crush is shallow and simple. I can't think of a game off the top of my head that's really complex and really shallow but whatever it is it's definitely not on a mobile device.

TylerE on Feb 4, 2014 [–]

I'm not so sure. I suspect writing a near-optimal Candy Crush AI would be quite difficult.