The hide-and-seek game that I loved to play with my friends in my childhood has been updated and iterated to become a popular "urban peek-a-boo" activity among young people with the blessing of mobile phone sharing positioning. At night, the large game area, real-time updated location coordinates, and the chase battle of offensive and defensive conversion, the exciting game experience makes "urban peek-a-boo" quickly become one of the outdoor sports that young people are keen on in recent days.
7 Yuan sweated and ran for one nightOn September 25, the reporter searched for "Jinan Peekaboo" through social media, and according to the information released by the organizer "Tong Yuge", he joined the WeChat group of the "Urban Peekaboo" activity created by him, and there were more than 400 people in the group at this time. After choosing to participate in the peekaboo event held in Hundred Flowers Park that night, the reporter entered the mini program and paid a registration fee of 7 yuan.
At about 19 o'clock in the evening, the reporter arrived at the meeting point of Baihua Park, where many young players were already waiting early, and the organizers Xue Tongyu and He Yuan were guiding everyone to join the group of Amap, opening location sharing and reiterating the rules of the game.
Before the start of each game, players draw lots in the WeChat group to determine the role, and replace the corresponding avatar in the shared position. Each "cat" receives a glow stick, and the "mice" each receive two fluorescent bracelets to distinguish them from passers-by. Each caught "mouse" must hand over a bracelet to the "cat", and after changing the avatar of "Tom Cat", it will automatically become a "cat" to chase the remaining "rat". At the end of the game, the "cat" who collected the most fluorescent bracelets was awarded the title of "Elvis", and the last surviving "rat" was named the "Rat King" of the authorities.
With the organizer's order, the "rat friends" took the lead and scattered towards the depths of the park. Five minutes later, the "cats" began to chase, and the reporter saw the "Tom cat" avatar on the shared location and immediately began to move rapidly.
The rules of the game seem simple, but the "combat strategies" are varied, and if necessary, a certain amount of acting bonuses are required. Not only the "King of Qin around the column" style of roundabout running, the "man-machine separation" style of hiding tricks, and the calm mentality when "pointing the mouse as a cat", many players will also form a "capture team" to encircle and suppress. After the whole game, although the young people present were sweating profusely, they had already mingled and excitedly exchanged game strategies and feelings.
The reporter signed up for the "urban peek-a-boo" in the Daming Lake scenic area the next day, and ran more than 30,000 steps in two days.
Play once and become addicted, hit workers off work fitness new options"This is the fifth time I've played it, and I've run Huashan Mountain, Forest Park, and Quancheng Square before." A boy at the scene who carried a flashlight and other equipment said that he would sign up for the event when he was free from work, "It's good to come over from work and exercise." ”
In the process of chatting with players, the reporter found that most of the people involved in the "urban peek-a-boo" were office workers aged 20~30.
Being able to exercise in the game has obviously become a highlight of "urban peek-a-boo", and many players have said that exercising in entertainment is less likely to feel tired, and the number of steps can easily break 10,000, which is very suitable for exercise after work.
As a sports event organizer, Xue Tongyu, more than a dozen games were organized, she found that the excitement and experience generated by this activity in the sport can infect the participants in a short time, "some players come for the purpose of meeting more friends, after running for five minutes, they are completely immersed in the joy of sports and competitions, and everyone enjoys the excitement of 'catching people' and 'being caught'", she believes that this is an important reason for the stickiness of users of the "urban peek-a-boo" activity.
Easy socialization also requires a focus on safetyThe popularity of "urban peek-a-boo" is an inescapable topic that is its social attributes. From cycling, hiking, script kills to frisbee... Social networking has always been the key word for young people's group activities.
"When I first arrived, I was a little afraid of not being able to fit in," a female player shared with reporters, "and as soon as I ran, everyone naturally started talking." ”
Zhu Jun, a psychotherapist in the day diagnosis and treatment department of the Shandong Provincial Mental Health Center, said in an interview that urban peek-a-boo provides modern professionals and young people with a more relaxed and simple entertainment and social scene. Zhu Jun introduced, "When adults go to play childhood games such as peek-a-boo, their psychology regresses to a child's state to some extent, and they will be more immersed in simple happiness, which can better promote people to communicate." ”
Zhu Jun believes that under the current social pressure, young people need to have such moments of relaxation, establish links with other people, socialize or develop more intimate relationships. Coupled with the pleasant experience brought by dopamine secretion in exercise, this is a very important factor to attract more and more young people to participate in it, "Although there are a variety of entertainment and game software on mobile phones, the happiness of human-computer interaction is certainly far less than the real interaction between people, and the happiness brought to us by language, body and emotions in reality is more real and more we desire and cherish." ”
However, while socializing easily and releasing stress, it is also important to pay attention to safety. In parks and squares where peek-a-boo activities are held, there are many adjacent waters, rockeries and environments with unsatisfactory lighting conditions, coupled with many elderly and children, participants are constantly chasing and hiding in the venue, and objectively there are indeed certain safety hazards.
Xue Tongyu said that they purchased sports accident insurance for each player, and also prepared some medical emergency supplies on site. Before the game starts, the organizer will also repeatedly emphasize with the players not to chase vigorously, safety first.
As the venue manager, the staff of Daming Lake Scenic Area told reporters that the park, as a tourist area open to the public, has a positive and inclusive attitude towards such activities, but it is necessary to remind the organizers and players to pay attention to personal safety during the game, pay attention to avoid pedestrians, and try not to affect the normal leisure activities of other citizens in the park.
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