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If someone told me a month ago, there would be hundreds of game broadcasters at the same time broadcast “collection!” In the event of “Animal Friendship Association”, on Sunday morning, the price of rutabaga was searched on Weibo, and I will definitely think, “Impossible, is this a dream?”

I’m an amateur broadcaster of “Dongsen” from the NDS era. I couldn’t even find an online object a month ago. Now, I finally saw “Dongsen” out of the game circle in my lifetime. Seeing one by one dead group re-energized, the old players returned in full, and some people in the circle of friends kept watching from the other side to crazy addiction, which took less than a week.

Koruna is a short-term financial product that can only be purchased on Sunday mornings in “Dongsen”. “Dongsen” players will no longer be able to sleep on Sundays in the future.

The popularity of “Dongsen” is reasonable-from the perspective of game positioning, Nintendo has always insisted on making simple and easy-to-use games for ordinary players. The extremely simple operation of “Dongsen” hits the ordinary well. Players’ needs; on the other hand, the release of “Dongsen” has caught up with a very special period. Many people have not met with friends for two or three months, and social demand has just reached a stage that requires retaliatory rebound. . At this time, a social game may be thrown out, which may detonate everyone’s long-suppressed psychological needs.

Not to mention, “Dongsen” is not a ubiquitous generation. As Nintendo’s monster-level IP, it deserves such popularity.

What was the original intention of the production of “Dongsen”?

After “Dynsen” became hot, many people triedThe picture explores what “Dongsen” is. Some people think it is a decoration game, some people think it is a dress-up game, some people think it is another “Cat Backyard”, and some people think it is a house slave simulator … These thousands of answers are also “Dongsen “The charm is. Simply put, “Dynsen” is a game where you have no purpose and live on an island in a parallel world. Even if you live in a tent for a lifetime, it will not prevent you from enjoying other fun in the game.

What was the original intention of “Dongsen”? If you understand its birth process, you will find that it is actually a game for communication.

The main creator of this game, Katsu Eguchi, also talked about the origin of the game, and told a story like this: As a game developer, Eguchi always returns home after the child sleeps, and rarely has time to play games with the child. So he thought: Can you create a brand new game that allows multiple players to share the same environment in a staggered time?

The idea of ​​having a big brain has been realized for many years. In 1999, Nintendo introduced the 64DD expansion disk unit, which provides additional storage and other expansion functions for N64 game consoles. 64 megabytes of storage space seems insignificant today, but Jiangkou saw the possibility of creating a completely new type of game.

At that time, Eguchi conceived a brave RPG game with clear goals and endings. For example, the child takes an adventure during the day, and half of the adventure can be retained. At night, according to the child’s prompts, his father can continue to go further, like completing a relay race.

“Dynsen” originally designed for 64DD is a targeted game. Players complete the task with the help of animals, which is completely different from “Dynsen” (picture from famitsu.com)

Unfortunately, due to the bleak sales of 64DD, this plan can only be implemented on N64 with smaller media capacity, and the game specifications need to be significantly reduced. The original conception of the brave PRG was impossible. The team rethinks what is the core joy of this model? When a father complains that he has no time to play games with his children, what does he really want?

The answer is “communicate.” Thus, a village with small animals was born. In 2001, the first-generation “Animal Sen Friends” of the “Dongsen” series was released on the N64 platform. One village (ie, a cassette) can accommodate 4 villagers (ie4 players), only one player can appear in the game at a time. At that time, there were no Wi-Fi and online functions. If you want to visit a friend’s village, you need to get a friend’s cassette, and then realize this function by retaining the handle of your game archive.

The first generation of “Motion” on the N64 platform

At this point, you may suddenly realize. Why do villagers in a village in “Dongsen” send letters and write announcements to each other? Why do small animal villagers often tell you what other players have done today, talking about their hobbies and dreams? Why can the items displayed in the store be purchased only once, and some special insects and fish can only be obtained at night? And, why did “Dynsen” as a game have no ending?

All of this is designed for a gentle purpose-to increase communication with someone.

The game has day and night and four seasons synchronized with the real world, allowing players to have a common experience, and the different weather and terrain of each village bring opportunities for communication. During mutual visits, communication such as “It’s snowing in my village” and “Where is your store” will naturally occur.

“The difference between people” promotes communication and exchange, and has become the theme of this game. Everything in the game is to serve the communication between players. Why design so many animal villagers? The first task of these small animals is not to sell cute or cure, but to serve as a guide for communication between different players. The initial idea of ​​Nintendo was that if five children in a class had “Dongsen” cassettes, their villagers would try to avoid duplication.

The small animals move to other people’s villages after a certain period of time. This design is also designed to make friends always have new gossip to talk about; why some magical fish only appear late at night because they go home from work. For adults, the village at night is boring, but if you can catch a good fish, you may be respected by your children.

Universal “Motion”

If the original intention of the first generation of “Dongsen” was to promote communication between family and close friends, it was pure acquaintance social, then in the subsequent versions, Wi-Fi connection, multiplayer connection and other modes have been added successively , A weak relationship social network based on “Dongsen” was formed.

At the same time, the change of information media has changed our gaming habits. There are still people seriously writing village announcements in the game, asking friends online