I’m studying the third version of The Artwork of Recreation Design: A Guide of Lenses by Jesse Schell, and I encounter a number of ideas offered as totally different, however I don’t see a lot distinction. At present, these ideas are feelings, expertise, and pleasure. Are you able to inform me what the excellence between them is within the context of the ebook, and the place the distinction is defined higher? That is my first recreation design ebook, and I didn’t learn a lot psychology or anthropology earlier than. My background is in software program growth and arithmetic.
Additional, I clarify my issues in additional element.
Exterior the ebook context, I might say that feelings are anger, disgust, pleasure, happiness, concern, and others. If that is so easy, I don’t perceive why the writer didn’t enumerate any of those a minimum of in a single sentence. He devoted a couple of paragraphs to the story about his buddy not liking a pizza to point out that feeling and understanding are various things, however didn’t clarify what precisely to grasp: pizza might really feel dangerous as a result of the buddy feels drained (unsure whether or not that is an emotion), the pizza was chilly (not an emotion), or the waiter didn’t smile (not the buddy’s emotion).
The expertise seems like one thing you affiliate your senses with — the ebook gives an instance of utilizing the wind sound and steam coming from faces to point out the idea of experiencing chilly climate.
Appears to be like comparatively easy, however right here comes the notion of theme, and “dwelling the pirate’s life” is proven as one of many examples of a theme. Why is it not an expertise? Gamers come and really feel one thing they might describe as “Aye, I really feel like dwelling a pirate’s life.” It seems just like the theme is the primary recreation expertise to realize, however then there comes an instance of a doable theme for the film “Titanic”: “Love is stronger than demise,” which appears very totally different from the pirates instance. To make this extra constant, I might anticipate one thing like “Pirates are free from legal guidelines and obligations” to be the theme for the attraction, “pirate’s life” to be the expertise, and “feeling reckless and free” as feelings (are there such feelings anyway?).
On high of all that, the writer introduces pleasure. Satisfaction in an accomplishment and thrill are sorts of enjoyment, which I might anticipate to be feelings. Is feeling reckless and free a sort of pleasure on this case?
