‘The juice’: How you get people to spend $100k on a ‘free’ game

With a Pennsylvania priest due in court over thousands of dollars in Apple charges, we asked a game designer how the games work

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A Pennsylvania priest is due in court June 13, facing charges that he embezzled more than $40,000 from his parish to support a cell phone gaming habit.

Fr. Lawrence Kozak insists that he did not intend to use the parish credit in a years-long spending spree on app-based games, during w…