Incremental games, also called idle games, clickergames or clicking games.  They are video games whose gameplay consists of the player performing simple actions (such as clicking on the screen) repeatedly to gain currency. This can be used to obtain items or abilities that increase the rate at which currency accrues.

Your hosts, Shane Mattox, Stacy Baldwin and Peter Fisher discuss Idle games. Paul Csomo, host of the Varmints! Podcast, stops by on this episode of I’d App That!  Paul lends his knowledge on some of his favorite idle games: Egg, Inc., Abyssrium and Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector.

Peter Fisher gives us his choice of apps this week on Peter’s Pick: MapMyRide.

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Starting September 19, Twitter will begin cutting down exactly what’s counted against their 140-character restriction. This includes “media attachments like images, GIFs, videos & polls  This was first announced back in May, but no exact date was given. Usernames will also stop counting toward the limit, but it’s unclear if these will happen simultaneously.

They had previously considered increasing the limit, but CEO Jack Dorsey praised it back in January. He called it a “beautiful constraint” and that Twitter