feelies
Hands-on sensory objects
Feelies are the tactile equivalent of movies—entertainment you experience through touch.
The term comes from Aldous Huxley's *Brave New World*, where audiences gripped metal knobs to feel sensations from the screen.
It now applies to any technology delivering haptic feedback for immersive experience: VR gloves, game controllers with vibration, or experimental cinema.
In a gentler sense, feelies are the physical extras bundled with video games—maps, trinkets, patches—things you can actually hold.
Story navigated by commands
- propsTheater accessories or praise
- collectiblesItems people amass
- packagingProtective product enclosure
- memorabiliaCollected items of significance
artifacts · trinkets · souvenirs · promotional · novelty items · maps · coins · documentation
Informal term for atmosphere
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- atmosphereGaseous layer around planets
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
sense · impression · hunch · premonition · sentiment · undercurrent · aura · energy
Sensation from device interaction
- controllerDevice directing a system
- rumbleLow rolling sound
- vibrationRapid oscillating movement
- immersionState of being submerged
gamepad · joystick · force feedback · motion · peripheral · console · button press · handheld
text adventure
Story navigated by commands
- propsTheater accessories or praise
- collectiblesItems people amass
- packagingProtective product enclosure
memorabilia · artifacts · trinkets · souvenirs · promotional · novelty items · maps · coins · documentation · retro gaming
vibes
Informal term for atmosphere
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- atmosphereGaseous layer around planets
instinct · sense · impression · hunch · premonition · sentiment · undercurrent · aura · energy · ambiance
haptic feedback
Sensation from device interaction
- controllerDevice directing a system
- rumbleLow rolling sound
- vibrationRapid oscillating movement
immersion · gamepad · joystick · force feedback · motion · peripheral · console · button press · handheld · input device
touch
Perceiving through physical contact
tangible · palpable · fingertips · surface · grip · vibration · roughness · smoothness · ridges · bumps
- Text AdventuresZork, interactive fiction, parser, grue, compass directions
- sci-fi/fantasy techholodeck, holonovel, datapad, tricorder, neural interface
feeliesvisuals
Pictorial content collectively
spectacles · movies · talkies · eye candy · audio
feeliesdigital downloads
Electronically delivered files
intangibles · DLC · abstractions · streaming content · ephemera
feeliesabstractions
Non-concrete conceptual ideas
intangibles · virtuals · concepts · ideas · digitals
- feeling goodPositive emotional condition
- mixed feelingsConflicting emotional responses
- feeling downExperiencing sadness or dejection
- hard feelingsLasting resentment or anger
- no hard feelingsAbsence of lingering resentment
- feeling blueExperiencing mild sadness