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Podcast 55 - Psychology of Level Design

Psychology of Video Games Podcast

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The Effect of Level Design on Mental Scripts

It's activating or making salient and people's minds certain scripts. Like, you know, triangles and pointed shapes means like sharpness and that means danger; rounded shapes create associations with safety or cuddliness. So it's a lot of that sort of subconscious activating of associations and scripts. And I imagine that's, to some degree, that's got to be self-reinforcing, right?Like if you, if we've been doing this in video games for 30, 40 years, then experienced gamers just sort of learn it from the video games if nothing else.

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