The central gameplay mechanic involves tapping circles, then waiting a bit for your character to regain their energy, so you can tap on some more circles.
Like Hacker News and Reddit, Product Hunt's core mechanic involves sharing links and upvoting the ones that impress you.
The Snatch game mechanic involves players first locating a virtual parcel by spending time looking on a map or looking around them using AR to find parcels that appear overlaid over their environment (or else by finding other players who have already found a parcel and stealing it from them).
The second was Punch Ball Mario Bros., which featured a new gameplay mechanic involving punching small balls to stun enemies.
And the same movements grew only more interesting; the repetition taught you to analyze the mechanics involved, and the timing and spacing stopped them from becoming predictable.
Back in the 15th century, however, given the arduous mechanics involved in setting a page of text, the idea that this or any contemporary typeface could be transformed into pictographs was unthinkable.
The bigger problem with this mental-illness rubric is that it puts emphasis on the less-knowable aspect of the act, the psychological "why," and tends to obscure any examination of the more pedestrian "how," the basic mechanics involved.
"When I Come to Die," directed with impressive precision by Thomas Kail ("In the Heights" and Mr. Jackson's family drama "Broke-ology"), is remarkably free of both sensation and sentimentality in its depiction of the mundane mechanics involved in arranging the last days of men on death row.
By the end of the 19th century, inventors had finally started to figure out the rough mechanics involved in getting a person airborne, birthing a series of gliding contraptions that were unwieldy, dangerous and usually flew only a few feet above the ground.
And non-linear mechanics involved in MBD modelings of those systems were also explained.
