"Script kill" favored by young people
The new experience of "drama" and the new choice of socializing
"Welcome all the heroes to Mu Yunzhuang, and invite you to put the hidden weapon in the villain's custody." Hand over your phone and put on the turquoise hanfu. The girl Zhang Ying after the 90s entered a quaint room The heroine Liu Yimo in the script. In the afternoon, she will join seven young people who don't know each other to become a knight and solve the mystery of the murder of Mu Yunzhuang.
In the past two years, this social game called "Script Kill" has gradually become popular with young people. Within three or four hours, players can enter a completely different life with friends or strangers. He can be a general, a knight, a policeman or a fireman. "It's like playing a blockbuster." Zhang Ying said.
At present, the main consumer group killed by the script is between 20 and 35 years old. "It actually satisfies the social needs of young people, allowing them to go back online to offline and communicate face to face." Yuan Hang, founder of the FB Murder Mystery Experience Museum in Luoyang City, who has been in business for more than two years , "Human-to-human interaction is the essence of this industry, and the platform for human-to-human interaction is the meaning of this industry."
New social choices for young people
After 4 hours of immersion in the story of Mu Yunzhuang, Zhang Ying returned to reality from the rivers and lakes. She and the girl who played the role of cousin have been warmed up. The connection will arouse the emotional resonance between people. Everyone has common interests and hobbies, and it is easy to make a piece. "Since the contact with the script killing in early 2019, Zhang Ying has played more than 20 scripts.
This game originated from the European and American parties was originally literally translated as "murder mystery". In China, it was called "script kill" according to the previous social games "Three Kingdoms Kill" and "Wolf Kill".
In the game, players need to perform a story based on the script in their hands. They need to try their best to play their roles. Through interactive communication, discussion, and exchange of clues, they jointly uncover the secret behind the story or discover the murderer.
Li Yu (pseudonym), a post-95 boy, is a script killer. The host's job is to tell the background of the story and promote the development of the plot. Li Yu played more than 100 scripts all over the place. "Even if I stay in Australia for a month, I have a card in the script killing shop." After becoming the host, he repeatedly studied the script.
Li Yu, who used to play board games and werewolves to kill, has been playing scripts and killing for more than two years. Half of them are for entertainment, and the other half are to feel the worldview written by different authors. "I am a person who likes reading. It also gave me a completely different feeling. I was feeling another world described by the author and experiencing some ideas he wanted to convey to me. "
Yuan Hang remembered that the original script was more based on reasoning and investigation, allowing players to enjoy the pleasure of reasoning, but thanks to the development of the script industry and the efforts of the script author, more and more themes were derived.
"Sometimes the background of the story is a homicide case, but everyone does not care about the case itself." Yuan Hang said that some players are gradually immersed in the emotional part, and weakened the part of the reasoning. "Script killing gradually evolved from a reasoning game to a life game, allowing players to enjoy the experience more.
Two years ago, when the werewolf killing game was the most popular, Yuan Hang operated a professional werewolf killing club in Henan Province, but saw the appearance of script killing, he chose to transform the storefront.
"Werewolves kill more confrontations." Yuan Hang said, "Novices are easy to be bullied by the elderly, even if they play their roles well, they will inevitably be pitted by teammates. But the script will not kill, players can get it by playing their own roles. Satisfied, and no one will 'kill' halfway. "
The response of the market verified Yuan Hang ’s judgment that before the outbreak, his script killing store had an average of 10 games per day, and it was full by the weekend.
Li Yu ’s two best friends now know each other while playing the script. “During the play, you will find that the decisions and words made by one person fit with your own soul, and you will have a meal together in private. , Next time I continue to make an appointment to kill the script together. "
One script to experience another life
As the host, Li Yu has seen many original strangers form friendships. "The player's performance in the game actually has his own soul."
When describing script kills, players most often mention "experience." This includes not only the logic is reasonable, the rhythm is appropriate, but also the character image and plot story. This was not brought about by the werewolf killing or the Three Kingdoms killings-it was a completely different life in a few hours.
"Like a student who can't get in touch with other professions, in the script he may want to be a doctor or a lawyer to experience the problems encountered by different professions in real life. Some people will choose costume scripts, understand some ancient etiquette, and satisfy him with a play A fine dream. "Said Lin Yuhan, the script killer.
"This young man is not an ordinary drama." When the 90s girl Li Fanghua (pseudonym) played the script to kill, it was a moment of performance. "The person who plays the drama will sing a few words in his voice, and the bully character deliberately the audience. Speeches are fierce and evil. "Most of the performances are clumsy, but it just brings happiness.
In a script with the background of the Republic of China, her green plums went to Beijing to study, and she turned to a troupe to make a living. Ten years later, she went on stage to sing operas and met her first love. The other party was already an officer. Just when she thought that she finally found her true love and got rid of the bitter sea, the male master was suddenly killed.
The script has been reversed several times, and the writing is delicate, describing how many and how long the flower gun she plays is. Li Fanghua maps the miserable life experience of the character in the play to herself. When everyone replayed the game and the ending was clear, Li Fanghua, who had always talked a lot, suddenly became silent. She suddenly understood why the title of the play was called "Song of Everlasting Sorrow". A few days later, she was still thinking about her handsome boy in the play.
More than one player has revealed that the most exciting part of the game is when the host announces the ending. Everyone's true identity was revealed one by one, and pieces of puzzles finally came up with a full picture of the story.
The ending will vary depending on the player's choice. As a host, Li Yu is often surprised by the difference. The decisions made by social people and college students are very different. Despite the substitution of roles, the decisions made by college students are consistent with the current setting of the role, and people in the workplace often think farther, "In addition to becoming a role, they also bring some of their ideas to this role."
Li Yu clearly remembered that in the script, an undercover police officer fell in love with someone, but she broke the law. Almost all players who play this role choose to forgive her. Only once, a player told Li Yu, "Catch her." Later Li Yu knew that this player was really a policeman.
Good script is not just entertainment
The reason why I chose to become the host of the script is related to a script that Li Yu has played. This script called "Flying Flying Sky" tells the story of hatred in the Southern Song Dynasty. "I used to read Xin Qiji's words before, and I didn't feel so much, but after playing this script, every time I read Xin Qiji's words, I had a completely different feeling.
Li Yu feels that good scripts are not just entertainment. After three or four hours, players can really understand something. "Of course, it may be useless to think about the Southern Song Dynasty in 2020, but that feeling is common. "
In Yuan Hang's script killing store, the original spy war script "Ye Lai Xiang" based on Shanghai in 1942 was very popular. When the game is over, some players will cry. "It's not that simple players are happy, we made money, and there is an educational significance."
Yuan Hang remembered that a customer liked the script killing and hoped to open a franchise store. His mother just began to suspect that he was "not cheated." The old man was in his 60s, and later he watched his son playing "Ye Lai Xiang", and tears could not stop.
"She said that my son spent 7 years abroad and didn't expect to return to China to play a game. Actually, the patriotic sentiment can be improved so much. It is totally unexpected that young people's games are like this now."
"The core of the work is creativity and writing." Yuan Hang said that the birth of "Ye Lai Xiang" took quite a lot of time, from creative ideas to the formation of tens of thousands of words, it took more than ten days. To turn it into a good script after it is finished, you need to keep rehearsing and performing arts, find familiar players to test, print scripts and prop cards, and basically three or four months have passed since it was actually published.
A set of genuine scripts is cheap at three or four hundred yuan, and expensive ones are sold at seven or eight thousand yuan. Yuan Hang was able to make hundreds of thousands of yuan by publishing a high-quality work.
"Many professional writers want to try it, but most of them do not work because they do n’t understand script killing and take the novel writing set. Players have no feeling of acting, no sense of substitution, no burden, and the experience is very poor." Most of the studios where scripts are created and distributed are made by physical stores where the scripts are killed.
In order to reduce costs, some stores use pirated scripts, "just go to the print shop and print one page at three corners and five corners." This approach made Yuan Hang angry, "Piracy shops will lower the reputation of my works and have a great impact on my reputation. Because many of the script's cores require the author to tell the store, including how to shake the burden and highlight the feelings, I will only tell genuine buyers. "
Some stores will even do some pornographic violence and rubbing the ball to attract attention. Yuan Hang hopes that the country can provide a positive guidance to the industry, instead of prohibiting some content that violates the regulations, "it does not quarrel or fight, but also expands the social circle and pulls people back from the computer. "
Interpersonal interaction is the meaning of the industry
On April 6, Zhang Ying said goodbye to the computer and mobile phone, and once again walked into the FB Murder Mystery Experience Hall, where work has just resumed. Because of the sudden new outbreak of pneumonia, Zhang Ying "was panicking at home" and could only play Mahjong and fight the landlord online.
According to media reports, seven days before and after the Spring Festival, six online social games were among the top 20 applications, four of which were dedicated script killing apps and game apps that included script killing. Within 15 days of the Chinese New Year holiday, the total users of the script killing app "I Am Mystery" increased by 20% -30%.
But instead of playing script killing on a mobile phone, Zhang Ying prefers the face-to-face closeness between people. "If you don't sit in that environment, you will often dance. For example, if you are reading this script, suddenly my mother said," You should 'Sleep', there will be a play. "
The epidemic has a greater impact on offline script killing stores. "Like in Luoyang, there are more and more people who understand the script killing. Some stores have tasted the sweetness. They took advantage of this year's New Year to open nearly 20 script killing offline stores. There are four. "Lin Yuhan's script killed the store, and the net loss during the epidemic was two or three hundred thousand yuan.
In a media report in September 2019, nearly 700 stores could be found by searching Beijing's playhouse on Dianping.com. Today, this number is only more than 200.
"The epidemic has a devastating impact on this industry. Many old stores can't sustain it. Because the old stores may expand faster, do more, and have high rents and staff costs." Yuan Hang said.
After returning to work, Li Yu returned to his post and continued to do the job he liked. Script killing the host belongs to the service industry and requires a lot of skills, "For example, when a large table does n’t know what to talk about, how do you guide; when everyone ’s reasoning is unclear, and you do n’t know what happened, how do you prompt to let They do n’t feel stiff, but they reasoned themselves. "
He watched the programmers who were usually mune talk about the powerful logic in the script, and took the chance to strip the cocoon; he also reminded the girls who were immersed in the character settings. "There is knowledge to learn, life perception, and I am very happy."
"Face-to-face communication is always needed. We pull people back online." Yuan Hang also insisted on making offline stores. "We played a script together today. We experienced a common life and death, faced with a common test, and made The same choice, how good this feeling! Interpersonal interaction is the meaning of our industry. "
China Youth Daily · China Youth Daily reporter Liu Yan Trainee reporter Bi Ruoxu Source: China Youth Daily
April 24, 2020 version 07