So over the past few days I have been looking at some games that are good at immersing the player. I came to the conclusion that Minecraft was in fact a very immersive game, so here is why I think that.
When players start up Minecraft, they are welcomed to a world made of blocks with pixelated textures. When I first was introduced to the game I thought wow what's with these graphics, but little did I know that this game was going to suck me up and keep wanting more!
Aim of the game is to go and explore and mine some blocks for certain materials and this lets you create different blocks so you can build whatever you like. Sounds simple but soon as night time comes, if you haven't built yourself a little hut to hide in then creatures come after you and attack and if you die, you lose everything you have collected. When this happened to me first time, I was raging as I had collected a lot but why do people get so mad as after all you can just go and collect them materials again. This is we're the immersion comes in!!
When it does become nighttime, I am so on edge and immersed by the game that I will sit and listen out for the creatures. Am scared to go out my hut! The creatures aren't real I tell myself but I can't help but feel that way because the game has got me hooked and if I do die, I just go back for more and see how many days I last this time.
Even the weapon and tool creation in the game makes so sense as it's not believable at all. oh let's go chop down this tree, make a crafting table and some tools. Steve the character just pulls the items out of know where but see because the players are so immersed by the game, players don't care or even take any notice how this is done. There is other items like a bed and a door and again all these can be made by just going to mine some blocks.
The environment itself does have a certain charm about it however, when your standing on top of a massive mountain and your looking out, all you can see is blocks but it has that wow factor about it.
So what is it about Minecraft that has got players so immersed. We'll to me I think it's a mixture of gameplay and visuals. It's such a basic game with basic gameplay so maybe players like basic instead of the complicated side of games who have very in depth stories, am not sure but I shall keep researching different games I see what I come up with!!
Bye everyone :)
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