What Makes an Experience Interesting?
What Makes an Experience Interesting?
What Makes an Experience Interesting?
April 7,2022
By Sarah Le-Fevre
Summary
This is about far more than the 'fun' that we all experience when playing a game we enjoy.
Even learning games where the primary purpose of the game is to instruct have the very important subsidiary purposing of keeping people entertained.
There is something 'missing' from the video game experience, which means that I do not get the same calming and quieting effect when I play.
The first is the difference in the way in which you enter the 'Magic Circle' in a tabletop game versus the way it happens with a video game.
To some extent, the magic circle can be seen as a kind of social contract, an agreement between players, to cooperate or compete until the game is over.
The set up of a table top game might involve playing pieces being distributed or positioned, a board being laid out, or even constructed and players positioning themselves, taking on identities and evaluating their starting options.
Modern tabletop games often have considerable complexity, requiring players to plan strategically, anticipate the actions of others and events within the game world, manage resources, comprehend copious rulesets, and chain decisions and 'moving parts' into 'engines' to progress within the game.
Reference
Le-Fevre, S. (2022, April 07). What makes an experience interesting? Retrieved April 14, 2022, from https://ludogogy.co.uk/what-makes-an-experience-interesting/