Immersion isn’t required to be an essential quality for games, but it does help to have it. You will see that a lot of games have an extensive story and instructions and character traits which do not link directly with a game, even without them the game mechanics wouldn’t suffer, yet it there to create an emotional bond and to create immersion. Have you ever questioned why the developers spend so much time and effort giving us a backstory for everything, coming up with quirky lines, and some jokes here … [Read more...]
Nostalgia Isn’t Ruining Video Games – Here’s Why
‘Millennials’, as everyone seems to call people born in the 80’s and 90’s, have been identified as being plagued by a common malady: nostalgia. Nostalgia has become the driving force behind an entire generation, and so naturally behind an entire era of marketing and product design. Take technology, for example, the point of the Nokia 3310 is that it’s part of a world that we’ve moved past. But now Nokia is trying to save whatever remains of its company by dredging the phone, or a remodel of it, back from the past. … [Read more...]