We all know it's bad to break immersion right? The main thing is that immersion is imagination. When someone is immersed, they are imagining and dreaming. This, sort of, ties in with my blog about "Good and Bad Marketing". When they are immersed and something like a mini-game breaks it, then that's obviously not good. When immersion is broken, the context is changed. It means that the player is drawn into the something that broke it and is now focusing on that. As a result, they have temporary blocked off any thoughts dealing with immersion. So, it was a trade-off, losing one thing for another to think about (even though there's probably more things to think about that are related to immersion). However, the more often a person blocks off something, the less likely they are to think about it again, because each time they get the impression that they can’t or shouldn’t be doing that—imagining; in addition, the less often they do it, the less inclined they are to remember or think of doing it again. As a result, it's killing off the amount of things that players think about (i.e. contracting context). Therefore, less fun...

            Immersion adds an additional level and variable for thinking and…