After researching into immersion and after reading what factors cause immersion in films and so on, i then asked myself the key question, "What genre in game worlds get players more immersed?"
As i already knew, in films its the things that dont make sense in the real world like talking cars or giant robots that transform into cars that got viewers immersed, so is it the same for video games? I then came across this journal that answered my question!
The journal is by the "International Journal of Computer Games Technology" Volume 2011 Article ID 282345 and its by David Weibel and Bartholomaus Wissmath.
It states in the first paragraph that a broad survey was taken out and they found that amongst 30,000 players. a high percentage of them users played video games because they like to be immersed in fantasy worlds.
I then asked myself, what type of fantasy is more popular in Games and with people, After doing some research it came to my attention that it is in fact Pseudo - Medieval fantasy that is more popular than any other fantasy setting such as Sci-Fi or modern fantasy.
This fantasy setting is more popular because its wonderful, familiar and simple. Medieval fantasy is full of warriors, powerful wizards, villages protected by magic, dragons, dwarves, goblins, elves and many more but this is what people like and have grew up with and all this is very familiar and people know it works. However a futuristic sci fi setting would be very good as well with spaceships, space wizards and so on but this is unfamiliar with people and there is allot more to consider as it is more complex (design wise).
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