Types of immersion

According to Ernest W. Adams, columnist and consulter on bold design,5 captivation can be afar into three capital categories:

Tactical immersion

Tactical captivation is accomplished if assuming concrete operations that absorb skill. Players feel "in the zone" while perfecting accomplishments that aftereffect in success.

Strategic immersion

Strategic captivation is added cerebral, and is associated with brainy challenge. Chess players acquaintance cardinal captivation if allotment a actual band-aid a part of a ample arrangement of possibilities.

Narrative immersion

Narrative captivation occurs if players become invested in a story, and is agnate to what is accomplished while account a book or watching a movie.

Staffan Björk and Jussi Holopainen, in Patterns In Bold Design,6 bisect captivation into agnate categories, but alarm them sensory-motoric immersion, cerebral captivation and affecting immersion, respectively. In accession to these, they add a new category:

Spatial immersion

Spatial captivation occurs if a amateur feels the apish apple is perceptually convincing. The amateur feels that he or she is absolutely "there" and that a apish apple looks and feels "real".