Columbian Snow

Columbian Snow is a Crysis Wars modification for a final year project. The project was created and used to test the hypothesis "Do Implausible Elements Affect Immersion in a Realistic First Person Shooter". The hypothesis was to test whether or not un-realistic aspects of a game (such as invisible walls) affect a player enough to break their immersion.

Whilst the results suggested this was not the case, numerous unexpected elements emerged that unveiled interesting results.
Weeks of research were taken to understand immersion, how it works, experiences and how other professionals in the industry  have tested it. We then set out to create the best experience we could, which would be considered as a professional game. From this we then devised multiple methods to test and record findings and used these on a wide-varied demographic. Ultimately concluding that; no, immersion is hard to break once a certain focus has been achieved.