(a series wherein I explain to you how to be a game developer. Masterlist of episodes can be found [here](https://poal.co/s/Unity/66184)) a quick footnote i want to throw onto the requested topic while i get the next bit written i told someone this in a comment to someone else, explaining why i never carry a cellphone around. biggest reason personally is mobile games are literally digital crack cocaine, and i'm not kidding. you've seen me talk in this series about compiling audio/visual data to fool the senses. let me now tell you why that is video games (and many other other digital entertainment/systems) are all just hyper-advanced skinner boxes. they are fake mini-realities. they need the correct audio/visual data to sell their audio/visual illusion picking up a mario coin, for instance, causes a positive impulse IE dopamine losing a life or getting hurt causes a bad impulse IE cortisol the rat in the skinner box is the player. this probably sounds super-evil but it's the reality of the situation. you hack a players biological chemistry and therefore their emotions via external UI impulses originating from inside the videogame itself. if i can immerse a player, and then i swing a fucking hammer and take half their lifebar, **their brain registers that event as half the persons actual life dropping** if i give them a fake digital coin, **their brain registers it as an actual gold coin** i'm not trying to trick *the player*, i'm trying to trick the players *animal brain*. yes, you read that right, a lot of what you'll be doing skips the player themselves, and instead toys with the chemical/emotional meatsack of their fleshy human brain. part 2 of this topic is still incoming but i thought i'd mention this since people seemed confused