"Now turn off all the little candles in front of yourself, close your eyes, lean back in the chair behind you, and think about who you will save if you were to sacrifice yourself to let a man escape." When the DM (Script Kill Host) gives the command, all the players do it one by one, which means that a script kill is about to enter the climax stage.
This is an emotional script killing planned by the host Pan Chen, in more than a year he has brought more than 600 script killings, of which more than 400 are emotional theme scripts, more than 50 couples are matched, and he has a title in the store, called "The Old Moon in the World".
The script killing in Pan Chen's eyes is an activity that can bring a group of strangers together in just a few hours and make them have a certain connection, which is something that werewolf killing, board games and computer games can't do. Therefore, it is not unusual for today's young people to look at each other because they play the script to kill each other.
With the popularity of the mango variety show "Star Detective" in the past few years, the script killing has quickly swept the market and has become an effective medium for modern young people to expand their social circles.
For this generation of young people, playing script killing is not necessarily a hammer deal, because a game of infusion of emotions may not only gain a memorable story, but also a friend who meets and hates late, and a lover who fits three views.
Although, this lover may also break up after only three days of talking.
Looking for someone? The script kills and crushes the century
After turning off the only light source, the room is plunged into darkness, and the antique background music played on the mobile phone is slightly sad, which makes it easier to bring the player's emotions into the script plot.
Almost every heart-wrenching emotional script kill will set such a scene. When the player "goes too deep into the play", the eye socket will become an out-of-control faucet, and in this link, the sobbing is not stopped, which is the moment when people are most likely to break the defense.
After a play, Pan Chen witnessed a boy and a girl directly adding contact information to each other under the ambiguous atmosphere and scene of the whole scene.
Two weeks later, when Pan Chen wanted to set up another game to let the two enhance their relationship, the reply was that the two were already together.
The man told Pan Chen that after the two people talked for a few days, they found that the two companies were very close, so they picked her up from work every day, and within a few days, they naturally interacted. Pan Chen joked: "The script killed a step, they are equivalent to stepping on me and going straight up." ”
This is not Pan Chen's best "battle result". Once, he brought a sadistic love book called "Slow Voice", and one directly became two pairs. One of the pairs is that the boys wanted to take advantage of this script to kill and confess to the girl they liked, so they were considerate and took care of the girls everywhere in the game. "Once the two of them bring the atmosphere out, it's easy for others to get on top of it."
"It's good to play the script and kill by the way to meet new people." Chen Lingxi, now 25 years old, will take time to play a script killing almost every week, met a few boys who feel good, added WeChat, everyone has time to make another appointment together, "After all, the circle is so big, knowing people is also limited, script killing is a good way to make friends, if there is a suitable, I am also willing to find an object in the script killing shop." ”
For the post-90s and post-00s generation, the traditional one-sided dating method of eating, drinking coffee, and watching movies may really lack fun and opportunities to promote feelings. Especially the traditional blind date, the purpose is too strong, always put the result in the first place, somewhat resistant.
But the script kill is different, it can make young people unconsciously in the game temporarily "out of" real life, forget the external rules, taste another life and life.
Moreover, because of the needs of the script, the speed of ice-breaking and adaptation between players will be faster, and the chat will be more natural, and there will be no tension and awkward chat.
"With people who are not familiar with each other, they start to talk about work, family situation, and hobbies first, just like checking the household registration, which is too embarrassing." Although there was no personal experience, Chen Lingxi instinctively rejected deliberate blind dates. Chen Lingxi said that the blind date process of her friends around her is more or less like this, and everyone will consciously consider marriage, which will make her feel some pressure.
This is also the market targeted by the script killing bosses, with the theme of script killing, the boss of the "single dating club" Dahe has done in-depth research before opening.
"The demand for single young people to make friends is very large, but the blind date market is relatively mixed, and there is no precise segmentation. For example, Lily Network, Century Jiayuan and other more belong to very traditional websites, the users in which include those in their thirties, divorced, customer classification is not clear, and it is difficult for young people of the right age to find objects in it. Dahe told Phoenix WEEKLY Finance reporter.
In the process of playing script killing, Dahe also met a lot of new friends. From middle and high school students to middle-aged people in their forties, involving doctors, teachers, the Internet, students and other occupations and groups, "script killing is one of the main ways for young people to make friends." ”
The twists and turns of each script and the plump character image will easily make the player have a sense of substitution and connect the relationship between the characters, which is the place where the script kills the biggest impact on the river. It contains our real story or yearning for life, which can make users feel familiar and empathetic, thus promoting everyone's emotional communication and resonance.
Compared with the suspenseful reasoning book and the hilarious tearing book, the high-quality emotional book can obviously arouse the emotional fluctuations the most and provide emotional value for the player.
Host's "God Assist"
"What I'm doing now is an offline bachelor's dating club, and script killing is one of the ways to carry it." Big River said.
In the beginning, Dahe's bachelor's dating club was developed online, and everyone was about to do activities together on weekends. But Dahe soon found that even if there is a community online, it can't escape the offline venue to do activities.
At that time, in order to attract users into their own private domain traffic, Dahe had lost money several times before, and the registration fee charged was less than half of the cost. "Instead of this, it is better to run an offline physical store, and when there is no activity, the venue of the script killing is also open to the public, which can increase other sources of income." Big River thought.
However, once the script is killed and blind dated, the requirements for DM and script planners will also increase.
In the script to fight, Dahe usually pays attention to the community's entry threshold, the age of the participants can not be too large or too small, income, work, education, appearance must be in the middle and upper reaches, and then according to the hierarchy, everyone is assigned to the appropriate group. "In this way, people are more likely to find people they like, and they will also improve the success rate of communication and the sense of gaming experience."
Pan Chen also said that the blind date theme script killing is a very "eating DM" job, that is, the DM skills must be sufficient and have eyes.
Before each opening book, Pan Chen will call each player to the room for a private chat, ask who he wants to form a CP line with, and if he likes it, he will especially promote the communication progress between the two sides. "Because I am a God perspective and know all the plots, if anyone says anything outside the plot, I can react quickly, simply change the side quests in the script, and create opportunities for these two people." 」
In addition, the emotional ben is also very "eating guests".
Pan Chen said that players who come to play the script to kill need to consciously immerse themselves in the story in order to truly appreciate the fun. Some people come to play itself to see the storyline, not only can not fully immerse themselves, nor do they consider the experiences of others, so it will be more difficult to advance emotions.
Second, there is the high demand for the script.
Pan Chen frankly said that the script belongs to consumables, can only be played once, now the good script is too few, many scripts are new bottles of old wine, the same plot several copies of each other, and then become a new name, play more players know the plot at a glance, so there are not many new scripts that can enter.
"Only by meeting the above three points can we organize a perfect script kill, I have brought so many games, and less than 10 games can meet this standard." Once, 6 players were so emotionally contagious that even though I knew all the plot, I couldn't stop crying. Pan Chen said that in this case, the tight strings in people's hearts are completely broken, and then through open heart conversation, it is easy to harvest friendship and even love.
Dahe's goal is also very clear, to do a single dating club must be "small and beautiful", users are positioned in the young group, mainly to create a heavy social, light blind date model, and strive to create an overall relaxed atmosphere.
A love affair, only three days to talk about
In such a game that focuses on "fast socializing", love at first sight is a very common thing.
However, the reason why the script killing can quickly match strangers together and become a "single artifact" is mainly dependent on a momentary impulse, which is contrary to the order of general getting along first and then interacting, and also lays a mine for subsequent interactions.
"A person's good looks, temperament dust, good voice, and strong logical thinking ability can all become direct factors that make another person move." Whether they can be together depends on whether two people dare to be impulsive, and as for whether they can be together for a long time, it depends on reality, getting along, and other factors, which is not something that the script can kill. Pan Chen said.
It is undeniable that some people will use the script killing as a pretext to find boyfriend and girlfriend with the mentality of playing.
Xiao Yu, a blogger with 350,000 fans in Xiaohongshu, runs a script killing shop, and some time ago, a boy with two friends looked for Xiao Yu to make an emotional book, especially pointing out that he wanted to find a few more beautiful women. Xiaoyu did not care at first, and after making an appointment, he informed the other party, but he asked Xiaoyu to send a photo of the carpool girl, and finally Xiaoyu refused.
On the day of the script killing, the girls who carpooled the car entered the seat early, but the three boys were late, and after entering the seat, they suddenly went out to the toilet one after another and never returned. Later, the boy also blamed Xiaoyu for finding a carpool not a beautiful woman, looking so disgusting, unable to play, angry Xiaoyu directly exploded foul mouth.
Pan Chen himself has also had the experience of finding a three-day girlfriend because of playing script killing. "She's a few years older than me, but I don't care much about age, I play script to kill a lot of beautiful women, but the first time I see her, I feel very close." I admit that I was a bit selfish and deliberately changed the plot of the script to communicate with her more. That night, I chatted with her on WeChat and found that the three views were also suitable, so I decided to be together. Pan Chen said somewhat self-deprecatingly, "But because I have been doing DM, I still have some experience in watching people, and soon I found out that she was playing with feelings and did not plan to seriously fall in love, and then broke up." ”
Pan Chen also said that it is very common for players to break up after a few days together, especially when they are in love with DM, they may look at each other and break up in a few days to change the next one.
This is inseparable from the game attributes that come with the script killing.
Although script killing is a way to make friends, it is not a formal social occasion, so whether it is a DM or a player, there will always be people who treat social networking through this way as a game, which is also an unavoidable problem.
However, Chen Lingxi believed that this situation was only a small part. "More people play script killing because their social circle is too small, and they need to increase their social circle and meet more friends in different forms." Off-order is only part of the purpose of social networking, can not represent the whole, if only for the purpose of off-order, then these people are certainly not only playing the script to kill. ”
(At the request of the interviewees, Dahe, Pan Chen, and Chen Lingxi are pseudonyms)
The author | Wang Han
Editor| Zhang Yixiao
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