Understanding the GTP

The image after effect – Popular called Tetris effect

Image after effect is one type of player experience that has been classified as automatic Game Transfer Phenomena. Here you can watch a speech by professor Shawn Achor explaining what happens in the mind.

Watch this video and you will find out what the “Motion after effect”.
This phenomenon is experience by players right away after they stopped playing, when objects seemed to levitate or move slowly when the players took their eyes from the screen and is usually connected with music games with scrolling notes like Guitar Hero.

“We also get the Guitar Hero effect after we played it for a while After a couple of hours with it when we turn it off. everything slowly moves up for a short period. Since the notes in the game falls down, and after you played it for a while, everything slowly moves upwards when you are not looking at the game. if you play guitar hero, play it for a while, 1-2 hours. then turn it off, look at the wall or a bookshelf and you see everything moves slowly upwards. But only for a short period. Like an optical illusion”(Albin, 20).