Interactive Experiences

Peddler · 2000-03-22T15:39:48

Alright, this may be a bit abstract, but work with me here Total Immersion is the holy grail of game design, at least from my stand point...to suspend all disbelief. to immerse the player into the game 100 percent. Very few games have been able to achieve this. And of those that have, it was only maintained for very short period of time. Loosing total immersion..is similar to waking up immediatly after realizing you were lucid dreaming. If you still follow, i''ll move on to the topic. Forget conventions. I wouldn''t even call this a game, per se, but an interactive experience ... a single event in which the player is immersed into. The "game" would start with what I would call an immersion primer, a process to immerse the player into the "game" before the "game" begins....The opening to Half-life, I guess could be said to be an immersion primer, but I think to maximize immersion new techniques would have to be devised to suspend all disbelief and get the player used to the controls...so they are not thought about. On to the experience...The primer would take care of the controls, immersing the player, and letting them know the background information....The experience, is simply that, a single event that the player lives or dies through. Forget replayability, just focus on one instance. Obviously, the experience would have to be tailored to fit current technology, no Battle at Falkirks or charging Normandy yet, but I still think with todays technology it is possible create a setting that would keep immersion intact until the experience is over. Anyway, I think I have pipedreamed enough for the moment...this is just a abstract idea that is slowly taking shape in my mind...that I think will be one of the next evolutionary stages for computer entertainment. What do you think? Tim Yarosh Lucid Games www.lucidgames.net

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Started by Peddler March 19, 2000 10:47 PM

12 comments, last by Peddler 24 years, 8 months ago

dog135

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March 22, 2000 01:37 PM

If you die in the game? Big deal. Havn''t you ever died in a dream? I did, many times. I just wake up. When you''re putting the person in a trance you could play a pulsing sound and say "When the sound stops, you will wake up refreshed." or something like that.

Maybe someday we''ll have a device that sends a signal to you brain that tells it to go into a trance. When the signal stops, you''d wake up. I heard of devices that can put images in you head. I wish I had the money to explore all the different things they have out there. I''d say in less then 10 years, we''ll have something like this.

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Ingenu

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March 22, 2000 02:08 PM

I prefer a device that can read my brain for me to be able to make movies and FMV, or splendid landscape...
That''s the future

Don''t want anyone being able to control me through any device.
Just a freedom lover, and dreamer

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-* So many things to do, so little time to spend. *-

Peddler

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March 22, 2000 02:39 PM

Well, I think if such a device was made..it would be good to use it maybe not control your mind...just give it push it in a certain direction and then let the player''s subconscience determine what happens next.

But thats a ways off in the future ... for now I bet with a little research some techniques could be adapted or discovered...to use in games to help bring a higher level of immersion.