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Script killing, a kind of experiential reasoning game, arose around 2017, with several reasoning programs gradually out of the circle of variety shows.
A public data quoted by Tencent News shows that among the many offline trend entertainment methods preferred by consumers in the first half of this year, script killing ranked third with 36.1%, second only to the second place to watch movies (38.3%) and sports and fitness (36.4%).
In an immersive experience ranging from three to six hours, participants enter the set contradictions, play, state, mutual doubt and overturn, and finally find out the dissident, this interactive game with strong social attributes is being favored by more and more people.
©️ Stills from "Star Detective"
We found three script killing enthusiasts and asked them why they like script killing, and what they were doing when they approached the industry.
Among them, some are professional evaluators who have played more than 400 script killings; some are shopkeepers who have left their previous job to devote themselves to script killing; and another, perhaps more representative of most of the people involved in the script killing carnival: a player who puts real-life sustenance into the game.
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Miao Miao, 27 years old, "killing age" 3 years
Part-time script killing evaluator
At the beginning of 19, a chance encounter took me and my friend into an offline script killing experience hall in Beijing.
I put on the Qing Dynasty costume and traveled back to ancient times to become a brother, in this ancient style palace fight as the theme of the script, I have two "Erniang", three "brothers"; several of us "princes" in order to compete for authority, together with "concubines" to fight for the corner.
©️ Venus in Fur
Live-action performances, NPC interactions, host-led rhythm control, and also considering acting skills, I think everything about the script kill is completely different from the online experience of playing before. A scene from front to back for 6 hours, experiencing a handful of other people's lives, this is an experience I have never had in reality.
After that, I became a regular customer in the offline script killing store.
Because I work in sports marketing, I have more free time than most people; I play once or twice a month when I'm busy, and twice a week when I'm free.
©️ "Crush on Peach Blossom Garden"
Playing more, I also began to be picky.
Sometimes I can't find a good script, and sometimes I step on the pit when I listen to the recommendation of the store.
I pay more and more attention to the player experience throughout the script, after all, it is four or five hours at the beginning of the book, and there is no way to go back.
So, in April last year, I began to share the script reviews I had played on my public account to provide experiences for latecomers.
The first one was written in a Republic of China love script called "The First Cigarette", in which I played the shanghai beach bastard, and the girl of my choice sank and floated in the chaotic era, and then went through layers of difficulties together.
The story setting is great, so I still remember it after half a year of playing.
©️ "Singing and Playing"
I write articles myself without scruples, good is good, bad is not good, I am not afraid of offending people, costume props, decoration scenes, scripts are good or bad, the host's ability to control the field everything to write, but also three four five stars to give people a score.
The more you play, the more you write, the more you push, the horror, the horror, and the love book, the original, the hardcore book, and the last one to the present.
©️ "Brilliant Pen and Raw Flowers"
On Weibo, WeChat, and Zhihu backstage, I often receive private messages from followers, some people praise me for writing really well, and I am more engaged in watching; some people say that I fell in love with the script because of my review; and some players saw that I did a good job, and they themselves became review bloggers, and even opened a store at home.
Merchants see that I have a good influence, and will privately invite me to evaluate their new scripts and give professional advice.
Everyone seems to be playing and playing every day at work, refreshing. But for me, the evaluator is under a lot of pressure - not only to pay attention to the player's emotions, the host's state, but also to repeatedly deduce the logic of the script, play their own role, and drive the atmosphere of the whole audience.
After playing, others were tired and went home, so I sat down to review the script over and over again, asking the host what it was, why, and how, and I would pick up the host's manual. When writing reviews, you should also pay special attention to how not to spoil and order something fun.
©️ The Tragedy of W
The effect is remarkable, and some merchants will make adjustments: strengthen the host training, and arrange the venue more carefully.
However, some adjustments are not within my ability range, such as seeing the script like a dumb can talk, so-and-so year there is such a blatant BUG as WeChat, I can't cry and laugh.
But the script has been released, and the cost of recouping the revision is huge.
In the past two years, the script killing experience hall has blown up across the country. The number of scripts also began to explode, there are nearly 10,000 books on the market, even if I am already a semi-professional player, when the amount is large, I can only evaluate two a day, and when I am slow, I can play one a day, and after playing, I still need a whole day to sort out, in fact, it is quite laborious.
©️ Phantom of the Opera
Moreover, a large number of Thunderman releases are also growing rapidly, but for players, the script is "once in a lifetime" and will never be experienced again after playing; so, just like food reviews will tell everyone where to eat, player reviews are to lead everyone to find interesting places.
I am very optimistic about the future of script killing, but considering that my parents feel that this line of work is "night work" and not very reliable, I dare not resign to make them sad. So I worked as a part-time evaluator first, finding the right opportunity to go down.
©️ "Big Names"
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Mimiko, 29 years old, "killing age" for 3 years
Script kills the owner of the experience hall
I opened a script killing experience hall in Dujiangyan, and after the epidemic, business gradually improved; there are two universities next to each other, and one room a day can send away three or four waves of guests a day on weekends.
300 square meters of land, a total of 7 different theme rooms; a day's high revenue can reach as many as 30,000, a month down hundreds of thousands of flowing water.
Many of my peers envied me for surviving the epidemic, but in fact, the script killing was that others seemed to make money, but in fact they were losing money.
©️ "Bad Education"
I was a Little Red Book travel blogger before, and in late 2019, I partnered with a few friends to open this script killing experience hall in Dujiangyan; decoration, procurement, rent, water and electricity, a few people threw nearly a million into it, without splashing a splash.
Four of us are freelancers, only one of us has opened a board game shop before, and the knowledge of several of us about script killing is limited to the previous experience of playing in groups. Everyone's head is hot and everyone has hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they find that the actual operation does not have a clear direction like the script killing.
©️ "Buy Murder Shoot Man"
The lighting will affect the atmosphere, the host will determine the quality of the game, the player combination is also exquisite... We opened the store almost step by step.
It was not easy for the business to have a stable revenue, but the epidemic came, there was no guest for more than half a year, the rent was paid, if it were not for the shareholders, it would almost collapse.
Of course, it is precisely because of the large number of shareholders that the feelings of several people for more than ten years have more or less cracked.
Scenes, costumes, and services are all soft needs, and the core is actually the script.
My boyfriend also said, "Grabbing a good script can sometimes determine the life and death of a store." "At each script sales exhibition, our 5 shareholders brought enough dry food, and after paying the registration fee of a few hundred yuan, they entered the hotel lobby.
Hundreds of square meters of hotels are densely packed with signs next to each other, and distributors, merchants, middlemen, and evaluators are crowded together to pick up books, and people come and go, just like the vegetable market.
One after another, we tested the books endlessly.
When measuring the book, the mind needs to be highly concentrated, and the notebook should be recorded at any time to surprise or frighten people.
©️ My Week with Monroe
Sometimes when encountering a good book, in order to grab the exclusive or city limit (city limited edition, a script only supplies three merchants in a city), several merchants directly disregard the image of the big fight.
Some of the rumors online are true, but some are false.
For example, the so-called "merchants are very profitable", in fact, in the upstream and downstream industries of script killing, script killing distribution has gradually become professional, and marketing is also very fancy - signing up for money, eating and living to ask for money, grabbing books and walking relationships also need money. Sometimes the merchant feels that he is the little white who has been cut leeks.
We also heard others say what the most tear-inducing Ben in history, the most brain-burning Ben in history, with the professional comments of the so-called professional evaluators, plus some childcare mixed in, we measured that the brains were mushy, still pay the bill, and came back to find that the effect was particularly poor.
©️ 《Party A and Party B》
An ordinary box (non-limited normal distribution, anyone can buy) four or five hundred, the city limit box one or two thousand, the exclusive book three or four thousand; in order to buy the script, several of us spent a total of seven or eighty thousand.
At present, our family has seven or eight exclusive books, more than ten city limited edition books and more than thirty ordinary books.
Having a script is not enough, training the host is also an important part.
In the beginning, in order to save money, we would find nearby college students to work part-time. For a hundred dollars, people who signed up flocked to it. However, many players later reported that college students always read the script dryly, almost sent the answer to their mouths, and sometimes took the lead in jumping the play, which greatly affected the game experience. I began to consciously train the host and take him to spend money to participate in various training activities.
©️ "Adults Don't Make a Sound"
A host, cultivated to be able to play most of the book at the same time and integrate into the story, when there is a lack of people to play on top, physical fitness often stay up late, these must be satisfied is not easy.
Stay up for a month or two to cultivate it, and soon it will be poached by peers.
In the past, it was only out of a simple love for the script to kill, and after officially taking over the store, I felt that there were bits and pieces of trivial matters (power outages, property fees, player things lost...). ), it's a drain on energy.
©️ Why Hell Is Bad
Less than two years after opening a shop, it was basically the two years I was kidnapped by life: a person who loved freedom and loved to travel everywhere could not go anywhere, and could only watch the young people come and go in the store; the income was much more stable than before, but compared to my own tourism career, I felt that I had lost a lot invisibly.
The only thing that comforted me was that everyone was immersed in the script. Whenever I saw the students come out and blush, I felt a sense of accomplishment — I cried again.
©️ Gossip Girl
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Cici, 26 years old, "killing age" 4 years
The script kills fans
When I was in college, I liked to play werewolf killing with my roommates, others were suspicious of the long time, the interest was not high, but I was passionate.
I love hilarity, love acting, the script will "lie into sex", deceive the players, often overturn the whole scene by one person, and am a hardcore player recognized by friends.
After graduation, I went to Shenzhen and became the operator of a commercial project under a real estate developer; I often worked overtime, and every time I took the subway back to the rental house, I was lonely or lonely.
©️ The Man on the Moon
The change occurred at one time in a departmental team building.
The young leader took six or seven people to the script killing experience hall in the nearby office building, and played a live-action game of pushing murder for four or five hours, and I completely fell in love with this experience of putting down my mobile phone and devoting myself to it.
I added the store's WeChat, entered the player group of three or four hundred people, and found that most of the friends in the group were single young men and women in the office building near the company.
Everyone plays the script to kill for different reasons: some are too lonely, some like reasoning, and some are purely to pass the time, and people like me who are addicted to playing for the first time also account for a lot - one or two hundred yuan to buy another life, which is more cost-effective for young people after 95.
At the beginning, it was a weekend, when the group needed people, I took the initiative to take care of it, which was the often "1" in the group; sometimes the overtime was too late to go home, and I also participated in the group bureau at ten o'clock, and I played until three or four o'clock in the morning or even overnight, I slept directly on the sofa in the lobby of the store, and the next day I packed up and went directly to work.
Later, after getting acquainted with the boss, I threw my toiletry bag and blanket in the shop in case I could get my spirits back to reality after the end of the repair of the fairy game (all night).
My ability to stay up late is such a sad thing to say.
Three years ago, my boyfriend just went to the United States, so that the two can communicate frequently, I was willing to reverse the jet lag to accompany the chat, and the next day I made a cup of instant coffee and climbed up to work.
At first, the two were well connected; but after less than a year of persistence, communication became less and less, mainly because there was no topic and no energy.
The distance between our hearts was getting farther and farther, and eventually I couldn't stand his cold violence and took the initiative to break up.
©️ "If You Love"
©️ Death Poetry Society
Later I learned that he had a new girlfriend over there.
During that time, I was overly sad, I was diagnosed with depression, and I relied on taking medicine to calm my emotions and live a normal life.
For me, script killing is a kind of escape from reality - five or six hours of emotional ben gradually became my favorite, there is no complex brain-burning plot and background introduction, a few simple sentences to bring into another life, I often cry, so I am called "C dragon head" by my friends.
©️ The King of Comedy
Script killing is sometimes not only a game, but also makes you have more feelings in the game, a sense of life.
After playing nearly 100 books, what impressed me the most was the emotional immersion book "In the Water": in the plot of 6 people, I played an introverted girl who paid silently, and I recognized my fate by stripping away the cocoon.
In the big times, we are only a small drop. "Growing up is a process of constant letting go and compromising." The words in this script brought into my own experience, and I cried a lot. Later, with a long breath, I figured it out and stopped allowing myself to stick to people who weren't worth it.
©️ In Search of Neverland
Script killing also allowed me to gain a lot of relationships outside the plot.
Often after playing can receive WeChat requests from men in the same car, some feel good, offline eating together has developed into a very good friend; once even met a female colleague from different project departments of the same group, so we got to know and began to communicate in business, and the transfer after half a year was also thanks to the help of this colleague.
©️ "Angel Amelie"
Now, I have changed to a real estate media operation job, I need more concentration, I chase the script killing no more than before, but I still insist on playing at least once a month, for me, entering the script killing shop is like opening the door to a parallel universe.
After all, reality is too tired, the script kills, you don't know what awaits you.
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