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Groping In The Dark: Intimacy In Nyctophobia

Emma Leigh Waldron defines the term "Mediated intimacy" as intimacy that is "Given specific, shape, direction, intensity, or meaning" through a mediating practice, such as playing a game.5 Mediated intimacy describes how the flow of affect is oriented through play and how intimacy functions as a vector to describe the relationship between bodies.

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What is Player Investment?

This article will look into the concept of player investment in games, detailing the kinds of things that cause players to become more invested in the outcome of a game, and what kind of effect this can have on the game in question - as well as subsequent future games. The way that player investment develops can change a lot from game to game, but there are also a number of notable, known factors that we can discuss too. These might help to widen out and improve your general understanding of how games work, and how to get more out of them.

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