You can play.
You know surely electronic pets.
Whether it is the memory of the "electronic pet generation" Takuma Songzi, or later like the future "digital tyrannosaurus machine" such linkage, even the domestic variety of cottage versions, in the end of the last century to the beginning of this century in the interval, for many children's childhood color.
But later? When the children have an electronic pet of their own, what happens to the story?
I have forgotten where the little pet egg that I once regarded as a treasure has been lost in the past and in memory.
Nowadays, thinking back to electronic pets, in addition to the simple enough to be described by boring gameplay, you can only sigh how easy it was to be satisfied with yourself at that time, and then miss the past that you can get a sense of achievement by looking at the pixels of the black and white screen, and perhaps take a sharp comment in passing" "The current generation is compared with ours, it is like living in paradise."
So, what is the difference between "paradise today" and "paradise of the past"?
Electronic pet with "Royal Collection HD Remake".
My Universe - Puppies & Kittens is a recently released video pet game, and since it was only released on March 3, 2022, we can rigorously call it a new game – but if you look at the gameplay, it's not so new.
Choosing a puppy or kitten, interacting with them that most people can think of, and then repeating the process over and over again to increase your intimacy with the fur kids is all My Universe - Puppies & Kittens is all about.
More than a decade ago, there was a game that did the same, and it really caught fire for a while, and you should know the name - "Ren Tengu".
The problem is that "Ren Tengu" is a game from 2005, when the "king" or Nokia N70, game enthusiasts and digital enthusiasts highly overlap, and everyone has generally never seen any "world". 192× 3D dogs appearing on the 256-pixel 260,000-color screen look like a blow that can be described by dimensionality reduction for the small sub-ancient beasts that are still bouncing in the black and white screen.
My Universe - Puppies & Kittens, a 2022 game, became its biggest problem.
You may not know, but between 2022 and 2005, there is a gap of 17 years. 17 years ago, the old bustard of wanhualou could also introduce an 18-year-old flower queen with delicate eyes to drain the flow. But 17 years later, having become the little flower queen of the old bustard, it is inevitable that it is a little out of place to use himself to drain the flow.
In other words, the new swordsman who wants to play a famous hall, usually find some sword master Solo in the martial forest, so that not only does it go along with the will of passers-by, but also has to be played by him, and there is also a resounding name of "playing all over the same category of tracks without competitors".
So, how does the fledgling "My Universe - Puppies & Kittens" compete with the legendary predecessor "Ren Tengu"?
They don't have to be divided, they don't have to be divided.
My Universe - Puppies & Kittens isn't a good enough game to play the full gameplay in an hour, and it doesn't even intend to make a splash in the "jianghu". We also don't have to blame it with strange words like "Toads who don't want to eat swan meat are not good toads", the pot is not in it, it lies in its "master", My Universe.
"My Universe" is a deeply hidden genre that you may not have heard of, but the series has launched more than a dozen games on Steam. Each game is prefixed with "My Universe" and is made in exactly the same direction, focusing on a particular gameplay and gamifying it through simple mini-games.
You can see a lot of content in "My Universe" that seems to cover many aspects of life, from focusing on career development, such as simulating doctors, teachers and interior designers, to providing life experiences, such as providing you with a child who is like a child who has just been strung from the set of "Despicable Me" on the screen and lets you take care of it.
These series of works, not only have the picture chosen to be easy to accept the American animation style, but also have a strong gameplay guide, and the difficulty is mostly very kind - how kind, maybe my nephew who is studying in kindergarten can play.
Presumably you can already see that in fact, this series is more suitable for small children who have just learned to computer than for most adult players. Why use two small ones, because one small may not be able to play well, and it must be a little smaller.
So, if we start with the target user, I think the strength of My Universe - Puppies & Kittens is that it teaches preschoolers how to treat pets.
As a pet owner, I don't know if you will have such a distress - children who have just learned to run are not quite able to understand that "small animals need to be treated gently", and sometimes they will drag the hind legs of cats, cats, dogs and dogs, and use small force to make them submit.
At this time, you may need to hold your child in front of the computer desk, open this "My Universe - Puppies & Kittens" for him, and let him learn to get along with kittens and puppies more gently through various games on the screen.
Don't ask questions like "Why don't you educate your children directly?"
That's all I can think of, the value of My Universe - Puppies & Kittens today.
But if we go back to the roots— the electronic pet, maybe it can provide more than just teaching children how to get along with pets.
Looking back on those times when I was with electronic pets, sometimes I wonder what supported me to raise black-and-white pixel-like sub-ancient beasts in the Digital Tyrannosaurus machine; to raise little penguins on the desktop who needed to work to support themselves; and to share it with the world on the day when the ponies grew up in "Ranch Story".
It's actually quite simple, love.
If possible, I think everyone is a signal tower, receiving and emitting all kinds of emotions 24 hours a day, 7 days a year, and love is the most unique of them, love is very self.
There is no reason to say that when we accept a love, we have to send a love outward. Sometimes, the giving and giving of love are completely unequal, but it does not matter, and every signal tower will light up a little when love is transmitted and received.
When I look at the unreal puppies in My Universe - Puppies & Kittens, the signal tower in my heart lights up, and I subconsciously imagine, "Do I really have such a puppy now, it is represented by code in pixels, it is represented by carbon-based cells, and I am off-screen, and our invisible feelings can penetrate the tangible screen and communicate to each other." ”
What if it could feel it, it could feel the comfort of me walking with it, the tenderness of watching it eat, every tug-of-war, I was making it happy and not winning?
Perhaps, this mood is one of the reasons why electronic pets such as "Takuma Songzi, QQ Pet, talking Tom Cat" will catch fire in that year.
Pain is called love, pain point pain.