Pleaser

People sometimes force themselves to fit in a fake personality just to please others

Project

Game Design

Character Design

Role

Researcher

UIUX Designer

2D Designer

Game Designer

Timeline

Summer 2020

3 Months

Tool

Adobe

Illustrator

Photoshop

Premiere Pro

Unreal Engine

About the Project

To be honest, I really like games, so I put so much effort into it but I didn't realize that until I finished this project. This project is about creating fake personalities and pleasers who are used to pleasing people. I have thought a lot before I decided to use this topic. because one of my good friends is a people pleaser who likes to build fake personalities to attract others. she always wronged herself to please others. She once asked me if there was any way to prevent her from habitually pleasing others, but at that time, I wanted to help her, but I could only answer her with something meaningless like "be yourself", so I hope to learn more about this type of person and help her.

Meaning of Creation

This is my favorite project because I met so many challenges in this project.

When I did research on this topic, I realized that the target audience for this project is not only my friend but everyone who would see this project. Everyone has a subconscious mind to please others, but people don’t realize it.

So for my game, everyone can play it and try to find what I want to express from the game.

There are technical challenges and ethical challenges. When I meet any challenges, I will search them online first and try to solve them myself, but if I cannot solve my challenge, I will ask my supervisor for help and learn from it.

I can see the biggest disadvantage of this project. In terms of ethics, maybe my project is not perfect and it may even be offensive for somebody. because as an investigator I need to understand and analyze the whole picture from an objective perspective. However, those who please they may have some unspeakable stories that are different from the objective facts I searched. As an outsider, I try to put myself in the position of the pleaser. but I cannot say with certainty that my analysis is absolutely reliable, because this kind of personality-based analysis may make people feel that their privacy has been violated, so from a moral point of view, this is probably a difficult topic.

And when I think about this topic, I always think about my friend. I tried to put sensibility in the back and rationality in the front. sensibility always reminds me that this topic is about my good friend, and she may be unhappy after knowing what I am doing, which makes me feel a little guilty. and rationality will tell me what I am doing now, why I want to do this, maybe my friend would be unhappy, but my rationality tells me that at least doing this is more likely to help her. I don't really know how to change a person but I just want to help my friend to realize what she is doing and start to pay attention to her own desire and realize what she really wants.

I hope people can be self-aware in this game, I learned ethical issues and considerations, and in the future continue to be aware of social impacts.