And we believe in our illusions too, it is a base for the good lie - to believe in it yourself. We give them some feeling of power that they do not have in real life. The trick is that what appears to be a mirror is a hole in the wall, and the rest of the wall is, in fact, a mirror. In conclusion, what game designers do? We try to tell interesting lies and create fun illusions to our players, that want to experience this. The illusion is that the cub’s reflection appear’s to be a lion. But it happens at the start and normally the player feels he must suffer it to get fun after.
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The old tutorials, where the developers explain to the players directly how to play the game, breaking the fourth wall, are dissonance too.
Some conventionalities can trigger dissonance too, especially when the developer does not explain it. There can be many things from the bugs, that just break some parts of the game, to the ludonarrative dissonance, where narrative crashes with the gameplay. Why does it happen? Well, normally it is because of the dissonance. Usually it is something momentary and disappears, but sometimes it is a constant feeling. However, the player can stop believing in the game illusion. and there are more instruments but the game developer must understand what grade of control he gives to his player in the game illusion. The player can: save-load, retry the level, create a new character. The real-life is difficult in this but the videogames normally give the player some control for this feeling of power. We all need to know that we have the power to control our decisions and actions. That is not a total control, just the feeling of the power. Here is another big point: to accept this illusion the player needs to know that he has control in the game.
But why does the player want to believe? Simply, for fun, to experiment something different from his real life. So the game is an illusion that works with the player's imagination and conventionalities. Watch popular content from the following creators: Beezy(creationsbybeezy). You will see how lost they are because they don't understand these conventionalities. Discover short videos related to the art of optical illusion on TikTok.
Game conventionality is a big theme and I will write more about it but if you want to understand how many game conventionalities we have, just sit your parents or another person, who never plays, to play videogames. For example, the life bar that drains with damage and restores with time or medkits. What is a game conventionality? Well, in short, it is every part of the game that differs from reality.
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