Cheyenne Dog: Video Game Analysis
Hello, this is Cheyenne Doig and today I want to share with you a video game that I think truly made an impact on my day to day life. To evaluate, It affected me positively in my life outside just playing it. This game is called “Flower” and it was developed by Annapurna Interactive. This first-person, single-player game starts off with a plant on the window sill. As you progress through each of the six levels, more potted plants show up. The story has no dialogue, just soothing music and nature sounds like wind and chimes. As you hold the screen and steer with your phone, you “awaken” flowers which turn their surrounding grass green. In upper levels the wind (which is also you) can start wind turbines. The process of this game is not stressful at all and I would even go as
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As far as the eye can see, it is all green grass and budding flowers. The game shows the player how relaxing and good it feels to be surrounded by nature. There’s a sort of humbling feeling associated with exclusively being outside. “Flowers” shows the change and general feeling in the city as more greenery is added. It also shows the use of wind turbines. It subtly hints at humans detachment from the Earth and how it is possible to incorporate industry and nature into one society. At the beginning of the game, everything in the room and the city is grey and dreary. Level by level, color is added and music is happier. This is just another way “Flower” shows how great and fulfilling nature can be. Another way this game positively affects it’s player is the ability of the gamer to choreograph their own music. Every time you, the wind, hits a flower, a chime of different tones, ring which adds variation to the soothing background music. This adds even more incentive to complete the level because of the beautiful immersing chimes you
As far as the eye can see, it is all green grass and budding flowers. The game shows the player how relaxing and good it feels to be surrounded by nature. There’s a sort of humbling feeling associated with exclusively being outside. “Flowers” shows the change and general feeling in the city as more greenery is added. It also shows the use of wind turbines. It subtly hints at humans detachment from the Earth and how it is possible to incorporate industry and nature into one society. At the beginning of the game, everything in the room and the city is grey and dreary. Level by level, color is added and music is happier. This is just another way “Flower” shows how great and fulfilling nature can be. Another way this game positively affects it’s player is the ability of the gamer to choreograph their own music. Every time you, the wind, hits a flower, a chime of different tones, ring which adds variation to the soothing background music. This adds even more incentive to complete the level because of the beautiful immersing chimes you