Article source: Haitongshe (ID: lifeissohappy ) , author: book Air
Do you need some fun to fight against the epidemic? “Animal Forest Friends” (Animal Crossing) may be the best choice. It seems to be popular overnight, social networks are full of strange games and videos, companies use its lenses for marketing, and health departments also use it to promote “stay at home, don’t go out.”
The reason why these strange gameplays can emerge endlessly stems from the fact that “Dongsen” is an open game. Its gameplay is not specified by the game maker, but is explored by the player independently. There is no single strategy to win the game, and there is no such thing as winning the game. Even people who will not play any other competitive games will find their own fun in it.
(Minecraft, MC) for “Motion” and “My World” (Grand Theft Auto, GTA) and other” open game “concerns also arise: Since there are no fixed rules on how to play games, does it mean that the game world is a” law ” “Outside the World”, can people “do whatever they want” regardless of the consequences? Furthermore, should we place more restrictions on such games, or even disallow the development and circulation of such games?
1. The best tool to inspire imagination
In Wikipedia, the terms “sandbox game” or “open game” are described as “sandbox games” or “open games” in similar games such as “Motion”, “My World”, etc., and are incorporated into the larger “nonlinear games” , Even if someone disagrees on the merger.
“Non-linear games” refer to games that are different from traditional video games. Traditional games have fixed levels and plot settings, and they go one line to the end, or although there are multiple lines, the plot The direction and ending are limited and can be exhaustive. “Non-linear game” allows players to define the rules of the game in their own way, and what is considered to achieve the purpose of the game, etc.
For an example. You once thought that “life” is a marathon. People have to go through a series of checkpoints such as school, work, marriage, and childbirth along the designated route, and finally reach the end of life. The basis for judging victory or not is generally whether you have a complete family and make enough money.
At this time, if you, as a “Life” game player, don’t want to live like this, you can choose to jump out of the track from any node and enter your own game. Such as not going to college, looking for “unstable” jobs or starting a business or freelance, not looking for a regular partner, not getting married or having no children.
When you have money, for example when you get a salary, some people feel that they should save or invest, and some people think they should consume first. There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, and it should be based on the actual situation of the individual. This is an example of defining the rules of the game yourself.
“Non-linear games” can also refer to the main lines or branch plots designed by the folk outside of the official game plots, but the game officials do not arbitrarily deprive players of the right to customize the game. .
If the game provides an official or unofficial editor, let the player develop a modified version (MNow in the game. In addition, for the dialogue in the game, as long as it is a non-voice interaction, there are now mature management solutions. Servers in different jurisdictions that are not connected to each other can also implement different policies in different regions.
4. Open game is a “metaphor” for the real world
In addition to increased playability, what other meanings does open gaming have? It seems that the Chinese people prefer to seek a “meaning” for anything, and playing it also requires “education”. In this respect, it is really worth mentioning.
Several masterpieces in open games have one thing in common, that is, after removing part or most of the constraints of human society, exploring the feasibility of a naturally growing society. These rules not only refer to the narrow sense of legal ethics, but also include physical rules, eating and the constraints of life, death, old age and death.
The existence of them helps us to inject a new perspective of observation from the perspective of a bystander to the real life that is very familiar with daily life.
Some things are hard to describe to people who have n’t seen them yet, but human language has a powerful weapon, which is a metaphor. We say that something is “like what”, and when we look at it together, we can guess that there is no difference. I actually saw the aftertaste and found out that these metaphors are true.
Open game is a kind of “metaphor” for real life. Although the specific rules are different, where there is a virtual currency system, it will be governed by economic laws and inflation or deflation will occur; where there are population movements, cultural exchanges, mixed races, and even a plague may occur.
Some open games are closer to building a human society parallel to reality than others. “The Sims” is the most famous game that persists to the present, and the turn of the century is very popular, and then “Second Life” tries to copy all the industries and departments in reality to create a society interacted by virtual images. At the most famous time, some countries established “Embassy” in “Second Life”.
The concept of “The Sims” is similar to “The Matrix” (the Matrix) , the player ’s interaction in the game provides them with a second identity , And virtual and reality can be completely separated. “Second Life” has a more profound impact on the outside world. “Summer Wars” (Summer Wars) tells a “Second Life”-the story of OZ being hacked to gain the authority to manipulate the real world. The number one player in (Ready Player One) is somewhere in between; people can have identities different from reality, but Conducting actual business activities in the virtual world is theoretically completely self-sufficient in the virtual world.
To treat these games, they should not be regarded as pure video games, which should be regulated by the rules of the game. On the contrary, it should be regarded as a social network with an image interactive interface.
This kind of thinking can solve a lot of confusion, and also makes it clear how to enforce the law. Law enforcement personnel in real society enter the player as a “police”, or hand over to developers, operators, etc. to perform duties on their behalf, can clearly communicate the extension of the rules of reality in the virtual world to the players.
This is also the long-term way to help the benign development of the game. Realizing the game and realizing the game are the same. Games that have a high degree of reduction in social rules can even serve as “digital twins” in real society (Digital Twin) ‘s important task is to make it impossible to do social experiments in reality (because it will violate ethics) , Do sandbox deduction in the game, in case our real life experience is hit by similar kind.
The ban on such games is perhaps the worst coping strategy.
Article source: Haitong (ID: lifeissohappy) , author: Hang book,