This series of game is call the "Killing Games". Unlike the traditional notion about the word "killing", none of these games is violent or bloody. However, they do share a common characteristic which is the recording of how long player has spent on these games. One can say that while players are playing those boring but slightly rewording games, people are actually killing times. One can also say that with the interaction with players, these relatively simple-coding games are killing those large scale and well-developed epic games. Since one single person has the ability to produce a playable game, what is the reason of spending million of dollars and years to produce another playable game. In all, one can have his or her own opinions towards the meaning of these kind of "Killing Games" and all comments are welcomed.
As for each small game, the first one is directed by the current hours and minutes. After clicking it, one can see an increasingly enlarge ellipse inside a bigger ellipse and the player need to type any key on the keyboard to keep the inner ellipse from exploring. This game symbols the beginning of the life, embryo. Everyone, everything is started with an little embryo. As we growing old and becoming more mature, we are told to hold our eager, our opinions, ourselves inside. The world can be shield but it can also be a cage.
The date game is composed of a narrow key controlled rectangle and a mouse controlled ellipse. The second stage will be a small ellipse appearing as the player collect the rectangle and the ellipse. In order to win, the player has to collect all three shapes. The inspiration of this game came from an old chinese belief : "When there is no cube and no ellipse, there won't be the world." In ancient times, people believed that the earth is a huge rectangle and the sky is an endless ellipse. In this game, the movement of the ellipse represented the rise and the down of the sun (a day).
The last game is a simple finding game. Not like traditional American children games, in this Year game, the player has to find the Chinese character: "柬(jian)" from a crowd of another very similar Chinese character: "束(shu)". We are all agreed to a conformity in the public and the divergent is unlikely to be accepted. So when we can not find ourselves in the public, maybe it is time to pause for a moment and think what if I am different, what if I am the special, and what if I be myself (back to the first Time Game).
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