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Hello and welcome to my online research diary.
Here I will post links, and notes from the research that I am doing towards my end of year presentation.

My Idea for the research is to look into the effect that games have on people, in the way of how people's feelings change towards characters and locations in games based on the emotional links created through the use of music and story telling. I'm also incorporating other ways of connecting the player to the game as I go along, but for now this is what I'm looking at.
I'm also going to look into how people feel such connections to characters and games, that they re-create games or characters outside of the game e.g. dressing as favourite characters at conventions or listening to games soundtracks on mp3 players.
Here is a list of my initial ideas to base my research on;

How games draw you into them.
Connection with characters.
Immersion into a false world.
Mood setting via sound, architecture etc.
Comforting effects- e.g. Friendship, fulfilment.
Disturbing effects- e.g. deppresion, anger.
Total immersion - e.g. music albums from games, cosplay, collecting figures etc.
Architecture- how the buildings can set the mood of the game.
Lighting - mood setting.