feelies

Noun

feelie (plural feelies)

1. (in plural, often) A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.
   • Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus
2. An additional physical item packaged with a game (usually interactive fiction) to immerse the player in the game world and provide hints to solving the game.
   • The company also gained fame for its inclusion of “feelies,” small tangible items directly related to the game. The feelies for Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984), for example, included papers representing “Destruction Orders for Your Home and Planet,” an empty bag representing...2017, Andrew Williams, History of Digital Games: Developments in Art, Design and Interaction, CRC Press, →ISBN

Noun

feely (plural feelies)

1. (Polari) A child; a young person.

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