How not to get bored at home during the pandemic? Recently, the designer of the unplugged game Chang Ran, the member of the Shanghai Youth Federation, the standing committee member of the Yangpu District Youth Federation, the teacher of Shanghai Gongjiang Middle School Wang Duyi, the founder of the technology platform Timeory Cherry, and the three young people jointly designed an epidemic-themed online pressure reduction interactive game - "Home Battle".
Social interaction, full of childlike fun
"Stay-at-home battle" is composed of a variety of social interactive mini-games, including self-expression games, relationship interactive games, body rhythm games and so on. The game also added keywords related to the epidemic such as "hoarding materials", "grabbing vegetables", "nucleic acid", etc., starting from the epidemic keywords, randomly selecting the content blind box in the nine palace grids to open the game interaction. The visual design adopts the form of original illustrations, which is relaxed and lively at the same time full of childlike fun.
"At the beginning of April, we observed that due to various reasons such as work and environment, many young partners had negative emotions such as anxiety, nervousness and depression to varying degrees. So we're also wondering if there's a way to connect people in neighborhoods, communities, districts, or even cities that don't have much intersection, listen to stories from strangers, and feel greetings and cares from strangers. Talking about the origin of game design, the three main creators all said that they hope that this interactive mini-game can increase the opportunity for interactive communication for more young people, alleviate negative emotions, and give more people the warmth of watching out for each other.
Strangeness does not mean indifference, communication produces empathy. "Under the epidemic, we ordinary people from all walks of life hope to maintain our connection and find the power to be seen through various forms, perhaps an online game, to provide more possibilities for reconstructing the picture of interpersonal relationships in cities and communities." "Home Wars," said the creators.
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Social "New Fashion" in Home Mode
After 1 month of design, multiple rounds of trial play, modification and iteration, on May 4, the "Home Battle" was officially launched.
On the day of the game's launch, under the organization of the Yangpu Youth League Committee and under the guidance of the General Branch of the Weibaixin League, the young partners of Haoyuefang, Yangpu Youth Community, took the lead in experiencing two public welfare online social interactive game activities with the theme of the epidemic.
In the game, the most popular is the "hot pot" and "little green dragon" these two links, "hot pot" link is the game host private message to each game participant 0-100 in the middle of a number, everyone according to the size of the number to say the preparation to unseal after the hot pot with the popularity of the ingredients, 0 is the most unpopular, 100 is the most popular, in the case of the player does not say the number, only use language to communicate, time limit guess the size of the number arrangement, if the order of the numbers is correct, everyone play the game.
The "Little Green Dragon" is to say the same thing you have, if more than two-thirds of the players do not have this object, they will successfully pass the level. This link aims to quickly understand the experience that the player wants to express and is most worth sharing through the sharing of each player's current experience, such as a girl who posted her square cabin isolation release list, which is a unique experience in her life, because of the generous sharing of girls, everyone is also touched by this optimistic and positive attitude to life.
It is worth mentioning that the game finally introduced a "letter reading" link, using the app developed by cherry to send players an online letter, for what they have seen and heard recently, in the form of reading letters, for young people in difficult times to increase the happiness of community and group organization.
After the experience, many players have said that such a novel community activity is really a new social fashion under the "home mode". Player Sai Meng said: "Under the epidemic, this online interactive game experience is super strong, the graphic design is warm and cute, the game design that fits the current hot spots, there are nucleic acid knowledge questions and answers, there are KFC imitation interactive games, there are hot pot blind guessing games, which adds a sense of happiness and fun to the life filled by the home state, and also enhances the relationship between each other." Player Xiao Xian believes that it is actually very valuable to be able to organize everyone through a small game. Player CC said that through the game, the young friends of Haoyuefang Community met new friends, and also injected warm power into the spiritual world of everyone.
The relevant person in charge of the Youth League District Committee said that the Haoyuefang Youth Community is a model room for the Youth Community created by the Youth League Committee and the General Branch of the Weibaixin Youth League, and most of the tenants are young people of enterprises and institutions. During the epidemic, more and more young people have taken the initiative to integrate into the community, actively participate in community governance, and complete nucleic acid testing and sealing management in a safe and orderly manner. It is hoped that through online games, more young people can be attracted to participate in the social activities of the youth community under the epidemic, so as to promote the initiative of young people under the epidemic to embrace community autonomy and contribute to the youth community.
Source: Yangpu, Shanghai