Lock down Dairy
Background
I used to work in shanghai for half a year, I witnessed the 3-month lockdown in Shanghai. At that time we didn’t allow to leave our apartment, It was tough for us to leave our block and brought something we need.
The bustling streets of the past are deserted， every day I learn that the sick people around me are taken away for isolation， and people die every day.
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USA -- April 2, 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City crematories are extending their hours, burning bodies into the night. The state has started a running tally of all cremations and burials. City officials are surveying upstate cemeteries for temporary interment sites.
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Japan -- September 5, 2022
In mid-August, a cold storage facility in a mortuary at a funeral home in the Tokyo area was filled with nine bodies, the maximum capacity. All the boards with the names of the deceased had the word “COVID,” as they were confirmed to have been infected with the novel coronavirus.
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China -- December 22, 2022
The parking lot was completely packed, with a long line of cars snaking around the cremation area waiting to get in. Smoke billowed constantly from the furnaces, while yellow body bags piled up inside metal containers.
The price of saving your life is sacrificing your freedom.
How We Endured the COVID Lockdown
Snatch foods
During the lockdown, I spent my days hunting for produce on various delivery apps. liquidating sales are wildly expensive. Without the need to commute, people set alarm clocks to place grocery orders. The apps start taking orders at, say, 7 a.m. “and by 7:01 all the produce would be sold out.”
A lot of negative information on social media
At one point, a Big White was caught on video clubbing a corgi pup to death with a shovel.
Qin, like countless others on my WeChat timeline, posted the video. His account activity was restricted for three days.
Empty city
Avenues and alleys emptied out; vehicles and pedestrians were replaced by physical barriers and police roadblocks; feral cats rested outside a subway station that used to see daily foot traffic of more than a hundred thousand people; weeds grew on the Bund, a tourist trap along the banks of the Huangpu River.
Forced Covid test
Covid testing from time to time every day
Hungry
Unable to secure fresh produce, many residents lived on instant noodles or rice porridge. Some of them protested with loudspeakers, or banged pots and pans. (In western Shanghai, a political scandal arose when staffers were found eating freshly baked Swiss rolls.)
Loss Freedom
People patrol the public areas of the block every day. All the entrances and exits of the block are boarded up, and the banks of the Huangpu River are forbidden. When we started to think that we could leave the apartment, we found that we could not leave the building. After we could leave the building, we found that we could not leave our block, after you can leave the block, it is found that you cannot leave the district.
Inspired board
https://store.steampowered.com/app/688740/Fractured_Minds/
Winner of the BAFTA Young Game Designers Award, Fractured Minds is a game created by Emily Mitchell, then 17-years-old, with the hope of aiding understanding and awareness of mental illness.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049410/Superliminal/
Superliminal is a first-person puzzle game based on forced perspective and optical illusions. Puzzles in this game give you a sense of the unexpected. Players need to change their perspective and think outside the box to wake up from the dream.
What do I want to do?
Description of play experience
A puzzle escape game that contains 3 levels(Escape from the apartment, Escape from the block, and Escape from the district).
Users need to collect typical items to unlock the next level. “Snatch food”,” hungry”,” negative news” and “Covid test” will be keywords.
Goal
Users need to Finding Freedom in this game. I want to use this game to let users who didn’t experience know it, and also let users who experienced it can look back at this period of life in a relaxed and humorous way.
Basic elements
TBD
Players
Individual