CHAPTER TEN
The Experience Is in the Player’s Mind
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We have already discussed that ultimately, experiences are what a game designer creates. These experiences can only happen in one place—the human brain. Entertaining the human brain is hard because it is so complex—it is the most complex object in the known universe.
Even worse, most of its workings are hidden from us.
Until you got to this sentence, were you at all conscious of the position of your feet, the rate of your breathing, or how your eyes were moving across the page? Do you even know how your eyes move across the page? Do they move smoothly and linearly, or do they take ...
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