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    1 year ago

    Also, the doorway effect is a big reason why minecraft was a popular game.

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        1 year ago

        Moving in and out of rooms you’ve created taps deeply into a very primitive part of human psychology, creating feelings of nostalgia and wonder and also in the case of minecraft–protection.

        Another example is the “mind palace” method of recording information that humans used for centuries to record extensive oral histories.

        You could think of the Doorway effect as a glitch from that same brain function.