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euphoria because you are immersed in a beautiful fantasy world or you may feel stress due to the time pressures of the game. Game designers build these in layers. Mechanics are the foundation; the next layer is dynamics, which work to create the aesthetic experiences that make up the top layer. Game theory is a sophisticated science, but modern video games use many other forms of sophisticated science such as computational geometry, fluid dynamics, biomechanics, and more to create the most lifelike games possible.

Many sophisticated sciences go into making games as lifelike as possible.

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SCIENCE IN GAMING