thread: 2005-06-02 : Immersion
On 2005-06-02, Jonas Barka wrote:
Brand Robins,
I get the feeling that I do not got the same definition of immersion than you (and maybe everyone else here). The thing you describe sounds more like empathy to me. The other player character feels real and you can understand an maybe sympatise with their emotion and drives. This is not the same as *being* that character. That the thoughts in your head are his and not your own. That you percive the world through him. Feels real sadness ehen he is sad and hapiness when he is happy. That is immersion to me and rolling a dice in that instance would be as unnatural as if I myself rolled a dice before speaking to a person to determine if I should make a god or bad impression.
(Again, things like rules and dice rolling may have its place in other parts of the game, but they do destroy the immersion, at least temporary.)
/ Jonas
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