Immersion in digital games: What is immersion in the gaming spectrum?

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, André Alves dos Santos Cardoso
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/24757
• topic: Immersion; Engagement; Digital game; Mechanics; Narrativa -- Narrative; Imersão; Jogo digital; Mecânica

This work is comprised of two parts. Immersion is a very broad topic that tends to come up in a lot of discussions nowadays, with special focus on the world of digital games. The first part of this dissertation is the analysis the word immersion and all it encompasses, giving the reader a better perception on the matter - “what is immersion?”. To answer this relatively vague question, we must evaluate and define this notion of immersion in all its fields. Not just the digital gaming department, but in others as well. Although, virtual games remain the focus of the dissertation. In the second part of the dissertation, it is presented a case study, based on interviews used to find out what people think immersion is and if it is only connected to digital games. With everything stated, it is the final objective of this dissertation to build a typology based of age and gender of the interviewees, in order to determine what a person of a certain age would find more immersive, and at the same time demystifying and clarifying the notion of immersion.