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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8259196" data-attributes="member: 7016699">Immersion in the story, while gaming, I think of as the same as being immersed in any story in any media. The parallel while reading is the experience of falling into a novel (and missing my subway stop because I didn't hear the announcement). As a GM, this is most likely to happen for me during an extended role-playing scene.Immersion in the game itself is immersion in the processes of playing it. This is probably more like my experience of losing track of time and everything else while playing in my MIDI space, making &quot;music.&quot; The process just consumes all available bandwidth. As a GM, this is most likely to happen for me during a particularly involved combat, or something else making extended extensive use of mechanics and rules.Immersion in a character seems to me as though it would be experiencing what the character is experiencing, from that character's POV. Even actors have other thoughts in mind while acting--they have to, for practical onstage reasons--so this can't be like acting, exactly. I don't know that I have an analogue in my experience, and I don't know that I've experienced this myself.Immersion in a setting could mean one of two things. It could be immersion in the setting as though it were a character, or it could be perceiving the setting as though you were there, but not particularly in a character's POV. As with immersion in a character, I don't have a good analogue for this; I'm pretty sure I've never experienced this.I am willing to be corrected; I hope this helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8259196, member: 7016699"] Immersion in the story, while gaming, I think of as the same as being immersed in any story in any media. The parallel while reading is the experience of falling into a novel (and missing my subway stop because I didn't hear the announcement). As a GM, this is most likely to happen for me during an extended role-playing scene. Immersion in the game itself is immersion in the processes of playing it. This is probably more like my experience of losing track of time and everything else while playing in my MIDI space, making "music." The process just consumes all available bandwidth. As a GM, this is most likely to happen for me during a particularly involved combat, or something else making extended extensive use of mechanics and rules. Immersion in a character seems to me as though it would be experiencing what the character is experiencing, from that character's POV. Even actors have other thoughts in mind while acting--they have to, for practical onstage reasons--so this can't be like acting, exactly. I don't know that I have an analogue in my experience, and I don't know that I've experienced this myself. Immersion in a setting could mean one of two things. It could be immersion in the setting as though it were a character, or it could be perceiving the setting as though you were there, but not particularly in a character's POV. As with immersion in a character, I don't have a good analogue for this; I'm pretty sure I've never experienced this. I am willing to be corrected; I hope this helps. [/QUOTE]

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