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Just why is Peggle the happiest game on earth?


An investigation into why Peggle remains so cheerful.

And then there's the aesthetic sheen that PopCap is so good at: the rising scale of chimes as you hit more and more pegs, the Smoky the Bear wildlife backdrops. There's even that most subtle of features that PopCap dropped in during testing: the team put at least a couple of zeroes after almost every score in the game, and it turned people's satisfaction around. All the little positive tweaks to the game - all the slow-downs and Ode to Joys and rainbows and unicorns and scores with three zeroes tacked on the end, even all the moments when you suspect PopCap might have had its thumb on the scale for that astonishing last shot that changed everything?

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