A group of National Cheng Kung University students are crowdfunding the development of a satirical tabletop game, Her Errand Boys, which they said parodies the group dynamics between attractive and overbearing “princes or princesses” lording it over a cohort of “errand boys and girls.”
The game developers said that they want to highlight the absurdity of the players’ real interactions with their personal prince or princess, and to hammer home a lesson that they had been “taken for a ride” in real life.
The game, designed to last 30 minutes, incorporates commonly experienced errands for a romantic crush, such as delivering late-night snacks, fixing electrics and plumbing, and other unreasonable or tedious tasks, the developers said, adding that they aim to “deliver an authentic experience in melancholy and angst.”
The card-based game includes multiplayer scenarios, including “the beast of burden,” “the handyman,” “the study guide,” “the male BFF,” “the second-generation rich” and “the handsome,” who take on challenges from an imaginary “princess,” while sabotaging other players’ quests, with a leveling system implemented in gameplay.
“We chose the tabletop format because we want to encourage interpersonal interactions, and we think that the game encourages flirting. Phubbing [snubbing someone in favor of a smartphone] is so prevalent now, it is no wonder that nobody finds true love,” said one game developer, who declined to be named.
By reflecting on their “past miseries” as “errand boys and girls” through gameplay, they hope gamers “have fun in moving forward” from their past relationships, while making new friends and acquaintances, the developers said.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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