In the context of globalisation, the increasing contact between languages has led to the endangerment of small languages and the shift of their speakers to languages that have a greater impact and are able to reach out to a wider speech community. Powerful languages engulf the language that a smaller people has developed over centuries, taking over the names of towns and streets on distant continents. So we set an extreme game context to sharpen the discussion of the issue. In this Metaverse, for communication efficiency and globalisation in progress, language has evolved to a point where strong languages completely overwhelm niche languages under the influence of power and technology. This situation leads to the formation of concise and efficient global languages. Digital communication shields eye contact, voice textures, and silences the language and thoughts of the other.
We want the game narration to be poetic and playful, which brings attention to a serious and urgent topic in a light and moving way. Besides being an idea and concern for the future development of language, the project also responds to current social issues in the context of globalisation.
About our story:
World Background:
In the Metaverse, under the influence of power and technology, language has evolved to enhance the efficiency of human communication and facilitate globalization. The strongest languages have completely overwhelmed niche languages, resulting in the formation of a concise and efficient universal language.
Proficiency in this universal language has become politically correct, leading to the disappearance of linguistic diversity. Speakers of minority languages are now viewed as heretics, malcontents who resist globalization, and individuals clinging to outdated territories.
Characters:
Cangjie: The mad linguist, whose language-related muscles and organs are highly developed and exaggerated, and not accepted by the mainstream academic community.
Leaf: The dead. A minority language speaker. The last speaker of her people's language. She has no other relatives in the universe, is lonely, and writes poetry in her diary about her loneliness and remembers her homeland. The demise of her language represents the disappearance of a way of life under power.
Lorcia: Born in the meta-universe, the global language is his mother tongue and the only language he knows.
Foreword:
Leaf is dead, and the Space Administration needs permission from her family and friends before they can perform data destruction on her. Cangjie and Lorcia, as her only cybernetic friends in the meta-universe, receive a notice of her death from the Space Authority. They befriend each other as they rush to Leaf's house to help sort out her belongings. While tidying up her room, they discover some "weird and evil" symbols, revealing that their friend was a speaker of a niche language. Shocked by their friend's unknown side and driven by the urge to decipher her poetry, they start a game...
