A deer and a deer have lost away from home without knowing where they are or how they are back in the forest. With the help of glowing horns, curiosity and pure animals are abandoned subway system and surreal move sewage through cornfields, go do it they belong to. This is the path in the woods, a video game for PC and Xbox One in 2020 as a 20-year-old independent developer named Anthony Tan. “Pacifist” in the footsteps of similar games like Journey called, the alarms and the night in the woods path in the woods to players depends looking for adult experiences that are based on violence not to tell a compelling story. While proposing Minister Donald Trump and others continue despite the lack of evidence of a link between violent video games and mass shootings, there is a significant spike games like Tans is that they are more about exploring, collecting the history and design as a number of casualties. And the nearly $44 billion to bring to bear the considerable funding largest companies in the sector. “Personally, I like the content that engages with the players for fun or glamorous, or convincing,” says Tan. “I am inspired by creators whose work brings this fire of positivity, optimism and hope.” no violent games have existed since the early days of the medium – there is no mention in Pong and Tetris bloodshed. What makes this modern facility pacifists different games is that often treat mature concepts like loss, grief and interpersonal relationships. In 2013 he went home, for example, players explore an empty house character to look for signs of the missing family. It sold nearly 1 million copies and won site Polygon Game of the Year in 2013. Gaming “I love games that tell a different story,” says Meghan Camarena, a weathervane player and YouTube, with over 1 million subscribers per channel Strawburry17 . “What remains of Edith Finch, donut County, and Florence are just some playing the way you change an aspect of the game. They are driven story and incredibly catchy. These are the games I play.” Kells Tate, owner of co-head of the next Calico CatBean games and developer, a simulator Cat Cafe with an inclination magic, adds that the pacifist games offer an escape from, what often seems like a violent reality more and more hectic. “People are now really stressed, in general,” he says. “I think a lot of people, like me, has begun fatigue with the cynicism of a detached manner emotions and on your mind with real-world problems, and now we just want to respond genuinely and forcefully about what the world is going on. ” For developers offer games peace activists the opportunity to think about their work differently. “I had to take a break from this murder simulators,” said Laurent Bernier, who worked Walls breaking titles like Assassin ‘s Creed and Far Cry before the foundation of the study of the indie games. “At some point you realize these images are printed on your brain. It goes under the skin at one point:” Well, it helps to create away. The survival series, in which players explore Madagascar, while the shape of different animals. Chris Charla, senior director of Microsoft’s ID @ Xbox program, says two changes in the gaming industry over the past decade the door for the rise of peace opened games – or “friendly games”, as he calls them: digital distribution and access to tools for creating game. At the end of the 2000s it was becoming easier for console gamers to purchase and download songs directly via the Internet. eliminating the need to print on discs and send them to the stores greatly reduced the cost of the games to produce what publishers to experiment with new approaches. Around the same time, it has become easier to play first. Video game engines – the underlying software that supports games – such as Unity and Epic Unreal Engine has been vacated for many developers to dramatically reduce the cost of entry. are brought together, these developments in more games created by a larger, more diverse group of designers, while it is easier than ever to access the games for players. “We are beginning to see more and more stories from underrepresented voices to come,” says Charla. The main game console manufacturers in recognition of the growing interest in the less traditional games. Nintendo has supported it with shows like Animal Crossing. Sony has hosted a growing number of pacifists games like Flower and Journey. And Microsoft has at least three “friendly games” at E3 this year, including Spiritfarer and Hyperdot. “I have always been selling well these games and had huge community,” said Tate. Protect and fighting games “The only thing that has changed is the industry and in particular the decision makers are, to accept them as successful and useful just beginning.” Continue to dominate the bestseller lists every year, and they are unlikely to disappear any time soon. But thanks to independent game developers experiment with new ideas, we, that is a rapid expansion of the witness whose possible in the middle. “I think I heard the American rapper Vince Staples said in an interview that if he does not win in a championship or Spiel, eine kill anyone ‘, then it is not for him. And I know that,” says Tan. “But I think that the industry is shifting understand that there are many people who are all over the opposite side of the spectrum, and would rather violent games.”
Why Video Game Creators is jumping the bloodshed and make ‘peace Games’ instead
