Rami Ismail 冥想游戏是什么? What are the Meditations Games (2019)
译者按
九天前,我开始了一个视频制作计划,并已连续更新了九天。
这个计划关于一个叫做 Meditations,我译作《冥想集》的游戏合集。合集非常特别,由三百多个游戏组成,它为一年中的每一天,都提供了一个独特而轻松的游戏。
而背后是由不同开发个人或团队选择一年中的某一个日期进行的制作,对应的,你每天只能访问那天的游戏。如果错过了,那就需等到明年的那一天。
目前制作的九期基本上都是按照认识创作者,翻译附带的短讯,体验游戏,评论和分享感想的流程进行,时长在十分钟上下。
虽然制作视频的负担比较大,但收获颇丰,过程中我认识到了很多国外的独立开发者,且就像是开游戏盲盒一样,实况体验一些精巧且有创见的游戏想法,并附带不少自身经验和评论拓展。
如果你对游戏有思考,那或许会有不少启发或灵感。甚至评论区已经有课代表来写小作文了。
我可以选择等我更新得很久了再做集合介绍,但我觉得这个游戏合集和视频计划的意义在于陪伴而非总结。
你可以在我的B站账号(@叶叶叶叶梓涛_落日间)找到这个合集(BV1Jq4y1e7BA),并且持续关注,也希望我能持续更新下去。
如果你希望同步体验,那么你可以在官网(https://meditations.games/)为你的 PC 或 Mac 免费下载启动器 。
Rami Ismail
项目的发起和组织者则是独立游戏开发者 Rami Ismail[6],他是工作室Vlambeer的联合创始人,发布的游戏诸如《Ridiculous Fishing》《Lufrausers》以及《Nuclear Throne》,在我看来以游戏皆以强烈的 Juicyness 感著称。
*以下的翻译内容来自 meditation games 官网对项目的介绍*
*翻译经过 Rami Ismail 授权
What
如果每天都有一封来自过去的短讯,并附带一个小游戏或小玩具可以体验的话,会怎样?《冥想集》(Meditations) 是一个启动器,每天都会加载一个小游戏,以及一段作为冥想,消遣,训诫或灵感的文字。
Who
整个《冥想集》的游戏由三百多个游戏组成,每个游戏都由不同的团队或个人开发,他们有着不同的背景,其中有些匿名,有些则是些熟悉的名字:如纽约大学的开发者 Jenny Jiao Hsia[1],《史丹利的寓言》和《新手指南》的开发者 Davey Wreden[2] ,ustwo 和纪念碑谷的开发者 Ken Wong[3] ,《Paper, please》以及《奥伯拉丁的回归》的开发者Lucas Pope[4],《FEZ》的程序员 Renaud Bédard[5] 等等
WAY
2017年底的一个早晨,我偶然发现了一个叫 TEMPRES[7] 的小游戏。这是一个极简主义解谜游戏,理解它可能不会超过我的五分钟时间。退出游戏时,我为开发者tak 的聪明设计,以及我一大早完成这个短游戏的感受而印象深刻。
从那天起,在一群出色的策展人、开发者和支持成员的帮助下,我收集了超过350个由开发者为此定制的游戏——一年中的每一天都有一个。每个开发者都被要求选择一个对他们有意义的,或者随机的日子,并从那一天中获得灵感。这个想法是关于创造一种类似冥想的体验,一种反省,或捕捉一个特定的瞬间。
以 TEMPRES 作为指引,游戏要求必须简短——不超过五分钟,且无文字。而这也符合我的个人信念,即在某些方面,游戏自身有一种全球性的语言。每个冥想作品前都会有一个简短的描述,但游戏本身是无文字的。
《Meditations》是这个项目后续的游戏合集。每个作品都不同的——有些很短,有些更复杂。有些冥想轻松而充满好奇的。有些则可能是悲伤或者困难,倾向稀奇或者内省,个人化的或者好玩的。每一天你都能探索其他创作者的作品和想法。
启动器将允许你下载和访问这些冥想游戏,每一个只会在它们创造时选择那天出现。第一个是1月1日的 TEMPRES ——这个游戏启发了这个项目。注意,因为启动器缓冲了一个月的游戏量,每个月的初始启动都需要一段时间。
如果你某天很享受这个游戏,请通过 Credits 或标签 #meditationgames 让开发者知道。
Meditation Games
此外我希望能够将我制作的这九个视频所附带的文字描述也翻译出来
配套的不是游戏名(大多无名),而是我取的视频名字。
4.3
April 3 is the day after my wife and l got married. Sometimes it feels like a million years ago, and it's nice to remember those moon-eyed,blissed-out, just-married days, too.
4月3日是我和我妻子结婚的第二天。有时它就像是百万年前一样,很高兴回忆起那些月亮般的眼睛、充满幸福的、刚结婚的日子。
《0403 世界真大 by Sam Potasznik》
4.4
Find your friends in your increasingly unrecognizable hometown, and take The Bus to come back next year. CONTROLS-Arrow Keys to Move (tap to run, hold to walk)
在你越来越不认识的家乡找到你的朋友,然后乘坐巴士,明年再来。控制键--箭头键移动(连续点击跑,按住走)。
Being born and raised in Hawai'i, I try to make time to visit home every spring. With each passing year, I have seen Hawai'i change rapidly to keep up with demands for tourism and high-end housing. As more and more people move there in hopes of finding paradise, it has only pushed out the people and cultures that actually made it special. Now, when l go back, I try to remember what's gone and appreciate what's left.
作为在夏威夷出生和长大的人,我每年春天都会抽出时间回家看看。随着时间的推移,我看到夏威夷在快速变化,以满足对旅游业和高端住房的需求。随着越来越多的人搬到那里,希望找到天堂,它只是把那些真正使它特别的人和文化挤走了。现在,当我回去的时候,我试着记起已消逝的,并感受还剩下的那些。
《0404 每年都回家看看吧 by Picogram》
4.5
My mother was a teacher.
She had a talent for getting her driving license revoked, so for months at a time, I had to drive her.
我的母亲是一名教师。
她有一种让她的驾照被吊销的天赋,所以有几个月的时间我不得不开车送她。
《0405 送妈妈上班的日子 by Daniele Giardini》
4.6
April 6th, 2018.
I got the call my friend Jacob had killed himself. He was 26.
I met him in 3rd grade. He was the funniest person I've ever known. He invented the concept of "comedic integrity", which is something like the opposite of regular integrity. It means to commit to a joke at all costs. Even if no one else thinks it's funny. Especially if no one else thinks it's funny. I was at a bar in Boston,800 miles from home, with the sound of a party in the background.
So many people that didn't know Jacob, would never get to know him. It was my loss and theirs. I pitied everyone on Earth that would never even know Jacob had lived.
He hated himself as much as anyone else loved him.
I wanted to go back into that bar and tell everyone to stop having fun. There was no way they could enjoy themselves now that Jacob was dead. Instead, I took a taxi back to where l was crashing and cried on the couch.
"Catch you guys on the flippy floppy. Have fun." -Jacob's last recorded words
2018年4月6日。
我接到电话,我的朋友雅各布已经自杀了。他26岁。
我在三年级时认识了他。他是我认识的最有趣的人。他发明了「喜剧职业操守/完整性」的概念,这与普通的完整性是相反的。这意味着不惜一切代价致力于一个笑话,即使没有人认为它是有趣的。或正是要没有人认为它有趣。那时我在波士顿的一家酒吧,离家800英里,背景是派对的声音。
那么多不认识雅各布的人,永远不会再认识他。这是我和他们的损失。我同情地球上的每一个人,他们甚至永远不会知道雅各布曾活过。
他如此恨自己,就像其他人如此爱他一样。
我想回到那个酒吧,告诉大家别再玩了。雅各布死了,他们怎能继续享受。但我最终回到我待着的地方,在沙发上哭了起来。
「来世再见!玩得开心。」雅各布的最后一句话
《0406 来世再见 by Flyover Games》
4.7
Sometimes it feels like the world is pushing you around and you're just along for the ride. Forward... backward...moving on...returning to the same place again...Even when it feels like you lack all control, love can still find you. If that happens, will you be ready for it?
有时感觉世界在推着你走,而你只是随波逐流。前进......后退......继续前进......再次回到同一个地方......即使感觉你缺乏所有控制,爱仍然可以找到你。如果发生这种情况,你会准备好吗?
《0407 爱如潮水是我把你推 by Francois van Niekerk》
4.8
On April 9th, 2013, my girlfriend and I visited Nara, Japan at the end of the cherry tree flowering season. We mostly came for the deer, but the lasting image in my mind is one of the petals filling the sky as the trees get swept by the wind...
2013年4月9日,我和我的女朋友在樱花季节结束时访问了日本奈良。我们主要是为鹿而来,但在我脑海中萦绕的画面却是,当树木被风扫过时,花瓣飘满了天空。
《0408 樱花飘落的速度 by Renaud Bédard》
4.9
Everyday can be your day, is it today?
What does that mean?
Try not to overthink this, just know that your day, and whatever that means, will come and go, and yes, there’s more than one day to be yours. Weird right? I don’t make the rules, nobody does, I have a suspicion that in the end there are no rules at all, but that sounds like a rule, so remember, don’t overthink.
每天都可以是你的一天,今天是吗?
这意味着什么?
对这个问题,尽量不要想太多,只需知道这是你的一天,无论这意味着什么,都会到来和消失,是的,你的一天不止一天。很奇怪吧?我没制定规则,没有人制定规则,并且我怀疑最终根本没有规则,但这听起来像是一个规则。记住,不要想太多。
《0409 一期一会 by Wellington Fattori》
4.10
April 10th was a day of trauma. The repercussions are still something I'm dealing with today.
This is the game I wish I had in the moments I felt its echoes. I've created it as a reminder to listen to myself. That it's important to periodically tend to that metaphorical plant that grows inside of me. I hope it helps you too.
Let the flower grow alongside you as you go about your day. It takes about six hours to fully grow. Every once in a while it will get scared and want to be cared for by you. Give it a tap to remind it you're there.
A sincere thank you to Tim Phillips and Caspian Whistler for tending to me when I couldn't tend to myself.
4月10日是一个充满创伤的日子。其影响我至今仍在面对。
这是我希望当我感受到它的回响时所体验的游戏。我创造它是为了提醒我要倾听自己。定期照看我内心生长的那株隐喻的植物是很重要的。希望它也能帮到你。
让这朵花在你的日常生活中,与你一起同成长。大约需要六个小时才能完全长成。每隔一段时间,它就会感到害怕,想要得到你的照顾。给它一个轻拍,提醒它你在那里。
衷心感谢 Tim Phillips 和 Caspian Whistler 在我无法照顾自己时对我的照顾。
《0410 六小时只为等这朵花 by Rosa Carbó-Mascarell》
4.11
Nora was born at 25 weeks of pregnancy. If she had been an Internet download, she would have been at 62.5% when she got delivered. Nora barely weighed 780g(1.72 lbs) slightly less than a package of rice. This game tries to capture the rare joy of the few first weeks having tiny Nora sleeping on your chest, making all sorts of noises.
+Preparation: Grab from home a package o+f rice (or similar) weighing approximately 1Kg.Put headphones on. Recline on your chair. Hug the rice package on your chest. Grab the mouse and click when ready. You cannot lose.
诺拉是在怀孕25周时出生的。如果她是在网上被下载的,她在分娩时的进度只有62.5%。诺拉的体重只有780克(1.72磅),略低于一包大米。这个游戏试图捕捉小诺拉在你胸前睡觉的最初几个星期罕见的喜悦,发出各种声音。
准备:从家里拿一包大米(或类似的东西),重量约为1公斤。戴上耳机,躺在椅子上,把大米抱在胸前,准备好后拿起鼠标点击。你不会输的。
《0411 不是米更好 by Ale Cámara》
References
[1]
Jenny Jiao Hsia: http://twitter.com/q_dork[2]
Davey Wreden: https://twitter.com/HelloCakebread[3]
Ken Wong: http://twitter.com/kenwongart[4]
Lucas Pope: https://twitter.com/dukope[5]
Renaud Bédard: https://twitter.com/renaudbedard[6]
Rami Ismail: http://twitter.com/[7]
TEMPRES: https://tak.itch.io/tempres
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