Immersion And Interaction:A Textual Study Of The Murder Mystery Game

Along with the arrival of the entertainment and leisure era,The diverse needs of the public are driving the level of social entertainment to increase.In 2016,an offline live tabletop game,Murder mystery game was born and quickly took over the entertainment consumer market,becoming one of the most favoured way of leisure entertainment youth groups.Its appearance makes up for the loneliness created by virtual social networking,sets off the upsurge of offline social entertainment,and promotes the innovation of the emerging cultural industry.As the core of the Murder mystery game,this study is concerned with the characteristics of the text and how the cultural values it embodies affects current interpersonal information exchange and communication.First of all,this thesis compares domestic and international academic research results on the text of the Murder mystery game,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow experience and Collins’ theory of interactive ritual chains.We also summarize and analyze their shortcomings.Based on the clarification of the research problem and academic background,this thesis analyzes how immersion and interaction are used in the text of a Murder mystery game by using participant observation,case analysis and literature analysis,taking the typical script that is widely sought after by players as examples.This thesis also combines semi-structured interviews with player experience to provide a basis for analyzing the characteristics and value of human interaction in the Murder mystery games.Secondly,this thesis analyzes the development history,game composition,and the scope and characteristics of the offline Murder mystery game,and addresses the question of what Murder mystery game and its text are.The Murder mystery game pursues the ultimate immersion and interaction experience,setting players to play a role-playing puzzle game based on a script,bringing the cooperation and interaction of players to the extreme,and gradually evolving into a synonym for a new type of social interaction.This thesis will focus on these two points,combining the rules,process,content and player experience of the game,and analyze how it works in the text of the game,and how it touches the entertainment and social needs of contemporary youth groups,and what significance and value it has respectively The study found that The study finds that the immersion in the Murder mystery game text firstly reflects the spatial deconstruction characteristics,and the script and situations and props try to create a cross-media physical space to create a realistic sense of presence.Secondly,the game character and link design are used to maintain players’ attention with multiple characters,exciting game challenges and a scary game atmosphere.Finally,the text is written with hypothetical rules,a reversal of suspense and an open end to add a sense of fun to the game experience.The immersion feature provides a stage for players’ emotional expression and free expression,reconstructing the audience’s identity and refreshing individual perception.As an extension of flow experience,interaction reflects the collective and interesting nature of the players’ circle,as well as the exclusivity and interactivity of the members in the text of the Murder mystery game,building a cultural community and returning to offline socialization using physical presence and exchange of emotions,thus gathering emotional energy and spreading youth culture spirit.Finally,based on the above research,this thesis summarizes the problems and shortcomings of the text experience of the Murder mystery game,such as the patterned plot,detachment from reality,and vulgarity of the writing,and reflects on the shortcomings of the game text experience: deepening the content of the script,improving the distribution mechanism,and improving legal protection,and at the same time uniting with the cultural and creative industries to drive the transformation and upgrading of the Murder mystery game to optimize its text properties and enhance players’ entertainment interactive experience of it.