In the game "Love and Robot Maintenance Technology", in the MBTI career test , you treat a robot, but what you are treating is a disease that is deeply buried in the workers' hearts. It allows you to use a screwdriver to open the closed head of the robot, and what you see are all the real difficult situations faced by contemporary working people, and they are all punctuation marks.
When the robot also begins to involute
In the cyber city in the game, robots also face the same situation as 996. In order to achieve the rapidly increasing number of deliveries, Stone, the delivery robot, secretly purchased high-speed modules in order to improve efficiency. However, the memory capacity is insufficient, and in order to survive, it has to delete its most beloved music module.
Isn’t this the reality of us working overtime for KPIs? Just because we don’t want to be eliminated, we continue to put pressure on ourselves, and eventually even the most basic hobbies and life are lost. The production team transplanted the involution of the workplace into the robot, causing players to have extremely strong resonance during the treatment.
Anxiety about being replaced by AI
The situation encountered by Pepe, the robot wearing Midea's tools, is even more painful. After the company installed a module for her to generate artificial intelligence graphics, she found that she could no longer draw graphics. After diagnosis, it was discovered that she had lost her sense of color. The reason was that artificial intelligence took over the work of color application, and her ability to perceive color gradually declined.
This scene is too familiar. When artificial intelligence begins to get involved in the field of creative work, many designers and illustrators are worried about whether they will gradually evolve into a tool that can only press the shutter, like Pepe. The way the game crystallizes this anxiety into the robot's illness is truly chilling.
PUA from the top
The project manager named Yingli is a top -notch robot that can replace the highest-quality modules at will, and the related expenses are reimbursed by the company. However, she was completely and completely brainwashed by her superiors. She only had 21 minutes and 3 seconds of rest every day, and she also used this set of standards to squeeze her subordinates.
This can be called a textbook case of PUA in the workplace. After being brainwashed by the top management, middle-level managers intensified their efforts to exploit lower-level employees. Through the role of Yingli, the game exposes the power relationships in the workplace to the players without reservation.
The truth behind treatment
When you carry out maintenance work on robots, what you are doing on the surface is to deal with technical faults, but in fact you are uncovering the truth about the workplace one by one. When performing treatment operations on Pepe, you noticed that her visual module was calling on the colors in her memory for autonomous purposes to fight against the AI.
The design of this game is very exquisite. As a doctor, all you can do is cut off the color channel to ensure that the AI can function normally. Such a solution that only deals with superficial problems without solving the fundamental problems is just like the compromises we make when we encounter difficulties in the workplace in reality. Pepe accepted the plan, but the player knew exactly where the root of the problem was.
Reality in the details
After the remake, the level of detail has improved a lot, and the restoration of the surgical scenes is extremely good. When the robot's head is opened, the circuit board and various parts can be seen. During the treatment process, you have to play certain mini-games, such as using wire cutters to cut specific lines.
The design of these mini-games is extremely natural, not like playing a game, but more like performing a real surgical operation on a robot. As the plot moves forward, there will be interactive options. Although it is not yet clear what impact it will have, the production team has made it clear that subsequent versions will have multiple different endings, hoping to effectively change the fate of the characters.
The co-creation of migrant workers
The background of the production team is quite interesting. After graduating from Zhongchuan, its founder served as a level planner at NetEase for more than three years. The members of the team are all or have been ordinary workers in game companies. They have integrated their workplace experience in the past few years into the game.
No wonder the plot is so real. Those days when KPIs made it difficult to breathe, the fear of being replaced by AI tools, and the helplessness when leaders conducted PUA, they all experienced it personally. Now they turned the pain into creative material and made a game that can make workers feel the same way.
The trial version is only 30 minutes long, but it already has people looking forward to the full version. There are six repairable characters, a 6 to 8-hour main plot, and an MBTI personality test with multiple endings. If the script can be further polished, then this game is very likely to become a dark horse among domestic independent games.
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