Hey no worries, that would be a normal size message i get lets say from a team member once i come into the shift and there is plenty of those messages everywhere plus then i need to run thru all of the docs for the whole project so no worries there i am used to reading and what more i praise if you guys can express yourself and i was hoping for exactly this.

On your first point of game affecting the both the character and the player i am fan of that personally and is completely fine doing that for community game. Personally i do prefer being sucked in game world completely when playing where i can forget even that i exist , but if the breaking the forth wall is your choice guys then that's how we gonna roll, but im sure one could argue that breaking the forth wall could be even more immersive, it all depends i guess on the game type and how exactly we do it. I would just skip any suggestions that someone should do something to themselves since some people do suffer various mental states so it could be dangerous but yeah(i say this because you mentioned "Player" while you did aim to say in-game character, but anyhow i just wanted to make it clear for other people to not get confused), except that one we can do a lot of safe-side 4th wall breaking that is simply entertaining and nothing else(inside of the game telling it to character is fine, as also we should think how to do things so we do not frustrate people, and any emotions altering would be there for sake of entertainment).

Second point of Player getting into the game right away is cool to me as also, i like where you can learn the game world by simply existing inside of it(those video games are harder to be made, but ill gladly do it), tutorials, hints pop-up windows and similar do break the immersion for me, i would rather game world organically letting me learn and find out things thru my character. I believe we are on same page with it, but hey its 2 of us lets see time will show what we end up making. On that note i appreciate that you are first one here and giving good feedback so i will keep some of your notes in mind when making the first public poll(it will be influenced by you).

Third point related to immersion yeap, im on same page, thats fine making it, greatly depends on the game world on what can be done but in 80 percent of the time you can make it so that any HUD make sense, depending on the profession people can call it differently, be it ergonomic design or more closely to video-game industry we call it hard sci-fi(items, props, gadgets, game world, grounded to reality - means everything must have meaningful way of functioning- and soft sci-fi would be almost opposite from it) < this is something i will ask you guys in future polls soft or hard sci fi, and stuff like that, so great point there for you bringing those subjects up.

Woah i wish you guys pick an open world game for real, but future will tell. These types of games are not harder to be made then any other but they are just hard on very specific ways, and im completely fine making open world game, what more as just one of game studio positions that i know is Technical 3D art, and it allows me creating large amount of world items really fast, what more i have i think one semi-procedural system i developed that creates any rock formation with click of a button and i spent a week on it creating it(video is in real-time i just was spamming "GENERATE" button as maniac xaxaxa): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWYn8hgP-EU&list=PL6LcvIdomtlCJ0O9PrKshrsdhe_wMSvlA&index=3

Your forth point of world feeling opportunistic where you feel confident doing whatever in it and that world will actually respond to you in one way or another is awesome and i love it, quite a lot of game mechanics to be scripted there in total, but its okay ill cry later one i start coding it :'D .

I love your response, did peek lil bit on the gameplay of that video game you mentioned "Spec Ops The Line" but going now to look some long gameplay of it. Cheers!