{"id":696,"date":"2020-04-10T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/?p=696"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:16:44","slug":"how-bury-me-my-love-uses-a-messaging-system-to-create-immersion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/2020\/04\/10\/how-bury-me-my-love-uses-a-messaging-system-to-create-immersion\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u201cBury Me, My Love\u201d uses a messaging system to create immersion"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u201cBury Me, My Love<\/a>\u201d, <\/em>the developers make use of a familiar text messaging system which contributes to the immersion of the game. The main way that the game does this is by creating a realistic interface and experience.<\/p>\n

Immersion is an idea that is heavily discussed in my game development course. Immersion is what makes the player feel most engaged with the game. For this game, the interface is the most important feature in achieving immersion.<\/p>\n

The developers create a messaging system that imitates what all humans know as text messaging. This messaging has everything, the \u201c\u2026\u201d when the other person is typing, emojis, reply and send buttons, \u201cread\u201d symbols, and time stamps. The messages even address autocorrect as seen when Nour tries to send a message saying \u201cdon\u2019t be so flippant with me\u201d but flippant autocorrects to flip-flop. These are all features that the general audience can relate to because they experience these same features every day. Additionally, the message grammar is closely related to that which the general audience is used to using. For example, texts are informal, short, and longer messages are separated into multiple messages. Also, the overall interface of the messaging app looks just like an android\/iOS one. Lastly, giving the player the option to sometimes choose what messages to send to Nour contributes to the immersion of the game.<\/p>\n

All of these features of the messaging system make the player feel more engaged and immersed in the game. This is due to how closely related the game\u2019s interface is to what the player is used to. The messages imitating what real-world texts look like makes the experience that much more realistic and keeps the reader engaged because they feel like they are Majd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u201cBury Me, My Love\u201d, the developers make use of a familiar text messaging system which contributes to the immersion of the game. The main way that the game does this is by creating a realistic interface and experience. Immersion is an idea that is heavily discussed in my game development course. Immersion is what …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-c"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}