Rhythmic Entrainment in Games

摘要

This exploratory paper focuses on the rhythm of game interactions and the rhythmic experience of the player. The player's experience of a rhythm involves patterns of attention that are formed through processes of entrainment and habituation. The player's body both opens to a rhythm and is influenced by it. There are voluntary and involuntary, conscious and unconscious aspects to these processes and this paper explores the characteristics of these rhythmic dynamics within game experience. In discussing the range and complexity of the processes of rhythmic entrainment, the paper also suggests that this perspective might be useful for the design and analysis of serious games.