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《Grow a Garden》玩家可以在土地上种植植物、饲养动物,收获出售、交易或偷窃彼此的收成。

无论是作为逃离现实世界纷扰的轻松避风港,还是仅仅为了打发无聊的假期,Roblox上的一款模拟农场游戏爆红网络,成为今夏的意外爆款。

《Grow a Garden》这款游戏,由一位年仅16岁的少年在短短几天内打造,打破了有史以来任何游戏的同时在线人数纪录,击败了那些耗时数年、耗资数百万美元开发的电子游戏。

而且,这款游戏中没有射击、打斗或竞速元素。如果你上次尝试种菜还是在2010年的《FarmVille》,别担心——即使你从不浇水,你的西红柿也会生长。

《Grow a Garden》正如其名,玩法简单直观——玩家可以在土地上种植植物、饲养动物,收获出售、交易或偷窃彼此的收成。这款游戏给人的压力很小,画面风格类似《我的世界》(Minecraft),背景音乐是莫扎特的《土耳其进行曲》(Rondo Alla Turca)等舒缓的古典乐曲。它的流行进一步巩固了Roblox在游戏界乃至流行文化中的地位——无论好坏,这里就是孩子们聚集的地方。

非营利组织Common Sense Media的编辑总监贝基·博兹德克表示:“我经常听到人们用‘轻松’这个词来形容这款游戏,这真是一款不错的替代品。我从这款游戏中感受到很多《动物森友会》(Animal Crossing)的氛围。你知道的,你可以登录游戏,查看你的花园,获得一些新种子,然后种植这些种子。我11岁的儿子也在玩这款游戏,他对我说,很多游戏都有一个你必须完成的宏大目标,但在《Grow a Garden》里,你可以随心所欲地做自己想做的事,这就是这款游戏的最大不同之处。”

无论是否巧合,《Grow a Garden》人气飙升之时,恰逢Take-Two Interactive宣布将其备受期待的《侠盗猎车手6》(Grand Theft Auto 6)推迟到明年发布。根据Roblox的数据,六月底,这款模拟农场游戏的同时在线人数达到2,160万,超过了《堡垒之夜》(Fortnite)此前创下的1,520万的纪录。关注Roblox股票的分析师表示,“Grow a Garden”正在帮助提升公司收入,并将推动其季度盈利数字超过华尔街预期。

虽然尚不清楚《侠盗猎车手》的玩家是否只是为了打发时间而涌向这款简单的模拟农场游戏,但这款游戏走红的时机让一个老生常谈的话题成为焦点,即“哪些人算是游戏玩家”以及“哪些游戏会被游戏行业主流认可”。这种情况曾在《糖果传奇》(Candy Crush)、益智游戏、《动物森友会》身上发生过。玩休闲游戏的人算是真正的玩家吗?还是说“玩家”这个头衔只属于那些在《使命召唤》(Call of Duty)中射杀敌人或在《侠盗猎车手》中四处制造混乱的人?

新西兰Splitting Point工作室从这位少年创作者手中收购了这款游戏。该工作室的首席执行官兼创始人詹森·马德森表示:“有大量玩家在玩Roblox游戏,而游戏行业主流却认为该平台是一个神秘幼稚、有着怪异玩法习惯的平台。实际上,我认为五年后,玩家的期望就是这类游戏。而你们不接受它,就不知道如何制作游戏了。”

开始打理自己的花园时,你需要一个Roblox账号。游戏会为你提供一块空地、一些游戏货币(谢克尔)以及一颗初始种子。然后,你可以开始播种、收获并出售农作物,还可以购买更多种子、动物或工具来完善你的花园。虽然不必投入真金白银也可以玩这款游戏,但会花费更长时间。等你出售了足够多的农作物,赚到钱,就可以购买比基本胡萝卜和蓝莓更昂贵的种子。

YouTube博主莉亚·阿什表示:“对我来说,我真的很想收集所有最稀有的东西。我是个完美主义者,所以我想要所有东西,对我而言,这就是乐趣所。”她向530万观众直播玩《Grow a Garden》和其他热门游戏。“这真的很酷,玩家们可以聚在一起,因为种子商店是全球通用的,所以每个人的商店都是一样的。你可以和其他人合作,比如:‘天哪,糖苹果有货了。快上线!’种子商店每五分钟更新一次,所以总有东西把你拉回游戏。”

Roblox曾因在游戏服务中未能采取足够措施保护儿童而遭到强烈反对,《Grow a Garden》连同新的安全措施(如聊天限制和隐私工具)在一定程度上缓解了公司的压力。

新玩家会得到资深玩家的帮助,他们会赠送礼物,并告知种子商店何时有稀有种子上架。

博兹德克表示,“如果有适当的监督和指导”,Roblox可以为孩子们带来积极的体验,例如,让他们设计自己的作品或练习编程。

她表示:“像《Grow a Garden》这样的游戏,或许可以促进亲子互动,增进亲子感情。”

或许,慢慢打理一个魔法花园也能给父母带来好处。

博兹德克表示:“这真的直击人心,你知道吗?人们需要逃离现实世界,我想我们都需要。” (*)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

《Grow a Garden》玩家可以在土地上种植植物、饲养动物,收获出售、交易或偷窃彼此的收成。

无论是作为逃离现实世界纷扰的轻松避风港,还是仅仅为了打发无聊的假期,Roblox上的一款模拟农场游戏爆红网络,成为今夏的意外爆款。

《Grow a Garden》这款游戏,由一位年仅16岁的少年在短短几天内打造,打破了有史以来任何游戏的同时在线人数纪录,击败了那些耗时数年、耗资数百万美元开发的电子游戏。

而且,这款游戏中没有射击、打斗或竞速元素。如果你上次尝试种菜还是在2010年的《FarmVille》,别担心——即使你从不浇水,你的西红柿也会生长。

《Grow a Garden》正如其名,玩法简单直观——玩家可以在土地上种植植物、饲养动物,收获出售、交易或偷窃彼此的收成。这款游戏给人的压力很小,画面风格类似《我的世界》(Minecraft),背景音乐是莫扎特的《土耳其进行曲》(Rondo Alla Turca)等舒缓的古典乐曲。它的流行进一步巩固了Roblox在游戏界乃至流行文化中的地位——无论好坏,这里就是孩子们聚集的地方。

非营利组织Common Sense Media的编辑总监贝基·博兹德克表示:“我经常听到人们用‘轻松’这个词来形容这款游戏,这真是一款不错的替代品。我从这款游戏中感受到很多《动物森友会》(Animal Crossing)的氛围。你知道的,你可以登录游戏,查看你的花园,获得一些新种子,然后种植这些种子。我11岁的儿子也在玩这款游戏,他对我说,很多游戏都有一个你必须完成的宏大目标,但在《Grow a Garden》里,你可以随心所欲地做自己想做的事,这就是这款游戏的最大不同之处。”

无论是否巧合,《Grow a Garden》人气飙升之时,恰逢Take-Two Interactive宣布将其备受期待的《侠盗猎车手6》(Grand Theft Auto 6)推迟到明年发布。根据Roblox的数据,六月底,这款模拟农场游戏的同时在线人数达到2,160万,超过了《堡垒之夜》(Fortnite)此前创下的1,520万的纪录。关注Roblox股票的分析师表示,“Grow a Garden”正在帮助提升公司收入,并将推动其季度盈利数字超过华尔街预期。

虽然尚不清楚《侠盗猎车手》的玩家是否只是为了打发时间而涌向这款简单的模拟农场游戏,但这款游戏走红的时机让一个老生常谈的话题成为焦点,即“哪些人算是游戏玩家”以及“哪些游戏会被游戏行业主流认可”。这种情况曾在《糖果传奇》(Candy Crush)、益智游戏、《动物森友会》身上发生过。玩休闲游戏的人算是真正的玩家吗?还是说“玩家”这个头衔只属于那些在《使命召唤》(Call of Duty)中射杀敌人或在《侠盗猎车手》中四处制造混乱的人?

新西兰Splitting Point工作室从这位少年创作者手中收购了这款游戏。该工作室的首席执行官兼创始人詹森·马德森表示:“有大量玩家在玩Roblox游戏,而游戏行业主流却认为该平台是一个神秘幼稚、有着怪异玩法习惯的平台。实际上,我认为五年后,玩家的期望就是这类游戏。而你们不接受它,就不知道如何制作游戏了。”

开始打理自己的花园时,你需要一个Roblox账号。游戏会为你提供一块空地、一些游戏货币(谢克尔)以及一颗初始种子。然后,你可以开始播种、收获并出售农作物,还可以购买更多种子、动物或工具来完善你的花园。虽然不必投入真金白银也可以玩这款游戏,但会花费更长时间。等你出售了足够多的农作物,赚到钱,就可以购买比基本胡萝卜和蓝莓更昂贵的种子。

YouTube博主莉亚·阿什表示:“对我来说,我真的很想收集所有最稀有的东西。我是个完美主义者,所以我想要所有东西,对我而言,这就是乐趣所。”她向530万观众直播玩《Grow a Garden》和其他热门游戏。“这真的很酷,玩家们可以聚在一起,因为种子商店是全球通用的,所以每个人的商店都是一样的。你可以和其他人合作,比如:‘天哪,糖苹果有货了。快上线!’种子商店每五分钟更新一次,所以总有东西把你拉回游戏。”

Roblox曾因在游戏服务中未能采取足够措施保护儿童而遭到强烈反对,《Grow a Garden》连同新的安全措施(如聊天限制和隐私工具)在一定程度上缓解了公司的压力。

新玩家会得到资深玩家的帮助,他们会赠送礼物,并告知种子商店何时有稀有种子上架。

博兹德克表示,“如果有适当的监督和指导”,Roblox可以为孩子们带来积极的体验,例如,让他们设计自己的作品或练习编程。

她表示:“像《Grow a Garden》这样的游戏,或许可以促进亲子互动,增进亲子感情。”

或许,慢慢打理一个魔法花园也能给父母带来好处。

博兹德克表示:“这真的直击人心,你知道吗?人们需要逃离现实世界,我想我们都需要。” (*)

译者:刘进龙

审校:汪皓

Whether it serves as a chill escape from the onslaught of the real world or simply a way to beat vacation doldrums, a viral Roblox game about gardening has become the surprise hit of the summer.

Grow a Garden, created by a 16-year-old in a few days, has shattered records for the most concurrent players of any game in history, beating out video games that take years and millions of dollars to develop.

And there’s no one to shoot, fight or race. If your last attempt at cultivating vegetables was FarmVille in 2010, don’t worry — your tomatoes will grow even if you never water them.

Grow a Garden is as simple as its name suggests — players can fill a plot of land with plants and animals, harvest and sell, trade or steal each others’ bounty. The game is low stress, with an aesthetic reminiscent of Minecraft and a soundtrack of soothing classical tunes such as Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca playing in the background. Its popularity has further cemented Roblox’ place not just in the gaming world but in popular culture — for better or for worse, it’s where the kids hang out.

“The word I keep hearing used over and over to describe this particular game is that it’s chill, which is just such a nice alternative. I get a lot of sort of that Animal Crossing vibe from it. You know, like you can check in, you can check your gardens, you can get some new seeds, you can plant them,” said Becky Bozdech, editorial director at the nonprofit Common Sense Media. “I have an 11-year-old son who (plays it) and he says to him the big difference is that a lot of games have a big giant objective that you have to do, but in Grow a Garden, you can just kind of hang out and do what you want.”

Coincidence or not, Grow a Garden soared to popularity around the same time that Take-Two Interactive announced it would delay the launch of its wildly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 until next year. In late June, the gardening game logged 21.6 million concurrent players, surpassing Fortnite’s previous record of 15.2 million according to Roblox. Analysts who follow Roblox’s stock say Grow a Garden is helping boost the company’s revenue and will push the company’s quarterly earnings numbers above Wall Street’s expectations.

While it’s not clear if the GTA audience flocked to this simple gardening game to pass the time until then, the timing reignited the age-old debate about who gamers are and what titles are taken seriously by the video game establishment. It happened with Candy Crush, with puzzle games, with Animal Crossing. Are people who play cozy games true gamers? Or is the title reserved for the folks who shoot enemies in Call of Duty or drive around creating mayhem in GTA?

“There’s a huge percentage of gamers that play Roblox and the actual industry just views it as like this esoterically immature platform of weird gameplay habits,” said Janzen Madsen, the New Zealand-based CEO and founder of Splitting Point studios, which acquired the game from its teenage creator. “Well, I actually think in five years this is what player expectation is gonna be. And because you guys haven’t embraced it, like you’re not gonna know how to make games.”

To start growing your garden, you’ll need a Roblox account. The game will start you out with an empty plot and some money — sheckles — and a starter seed. From there, you can plant seeds, harvest and sell your crops and buy more seeds, animals or tools for your garden. While it is possible to play the game without spending real-world money, it will take longer. Once you sell enough crops, you earn money to buy more expensive seeds beyond basic carrots and blueberries.

“For me, I just, I really want to get all the rarest stuff. I’m a completionist, so I want everything and that’s what’s fun for me,” said Leah Ashe, a YouTuber who plays Grow a Garden and other popular games to an audience of 5.3 million. “It’s really cool because you can come together because the seed shop is global, so everybody’s shop is the exact same. So you can work with other people and be like, ‘Oh my gosh, the sugar apple is in stock. Get online!’ The seed shop updates every five minutes, so there’s always something pulling you back into the game.”

For Roblox, which has faced a backlash for not doing enough to protect kids on its gaming service, Grow a Garden has served as something of a reprieve — along with new safety measures such as chat restrictions and privacy tools.

New players get help from more established peers who send them gifts and let them know when rare seeds become available in the seed shop.

Bozdech said that “if you have the right supervision and guidance,” Roblox can be a positive experience for kids, allowing them to create their own designs or practice coding, for instance.

“Something like Grow a Garden, particularly, is a nice opportunity maybe for parents and kids to play together,” she said.

And perhaps the slow cultivating of a magical garden can benefit parents too.

“It’s hitting a nerve, you know?” Bozdech said. “People need an escape from the world, I think we all do.”

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