【慈幼通訊社
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2016 年
08月
24
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無可否認，Pokemon
Go
已成為史上最受歡迎的手機遊戲，根據資訊偵察及分析商 SurveyMonkey 的資料顯示，每天活躍玩家達2千1百萬。
這個遊戲的第一個特色，在於玩遊戲時不是安坐家中，而是在街道、公園、海灘，以及現實世界的其他地方，這些地方顯示在玩家的螢光幕上，而虛擬出來的角色則隱藏起來。
這個遊戲創造了一個新的「現實」，使虛擬的元素得以在物理世界中展現出來，並且讓玩家透過在街上行走，得以利用手提電話尋找 Pokemon 精靈。
Pokemon Go 為最受歡迎的話題，尤其對青年及成人來說，以至這個遊戲迅速轉變成為一個社會現象，引起世界各地媒體的注意。
每天都有人提出一些意見甚至警告，要求手持工具的「精靈獵人」，不要闖入舉行聚會或宗教禮儀的場所。一些精靈獵人也因為沉迷於遊戲中尋找精靈，而在路上或路軌上，被汽車或火車撞倒。
Pokemon Go 已成為全球性現象，目前仍難以讓人們理解，也衍生了各樣可能的推測。這種規模的現象難以進行分析。
這是個近乎狂躁狀態的遊戲。顯然，教育者及家長對較年青玩家的真正關注，不應使他們不必要地不斷責成他們，然而有一點是重要的，就是要賦予較年青的一代所需的工具和技能，去揀選對他們文化發展重要和必需的事物，並懂得如何分辨出一些當下的潮流，而這些潮流卻會令他們背離自身年齡及我們時代所應行的一些急務。
幻想激發創意
遊戲作為良好的教育方法，應常是一項認真的活動，讓人作出反省，甚至能令人得益。以下是一個例子，有非政府組織利用這個遊戲，加上「加入我們並來拯救我們」這句標語，邀請世界各地的玩家關注敘利亞兒童在戰亂下的非人道生活環境，把這些兒童實況的相片，與虛擬角色聯繫一起。
慈幼世界則興起了另一項有趣的計劃。北阿根廷會省運用了既有的邏輯及遊戲科技，發明了另一個遊戲「Don Bosco Go」，以慈幼會聖人取代 Pokemon 精靈。
以上兩項簡單的創意，顯示了人們在不同情況下展現的能力，使能繼續創造不同的模式及方案，協助並教育他人。
Pokemon Go Salesian Style
(ANS , 24 August 2016) – Pokemon Go has undoubtedly become the most popular mobile game in history with 21 million active users per day, according to SurveyMonkey, a company for the detection and analysis of data.
The first feature of this game is that you do not play Pokemon Go on the couch at home but in the streets, parks, beaches and other places in the real world, which are reflected on the player’s monitor and where the characters created by the imagination are hidden.
It creates a new "reality" that allows identification of the virtual elements in the physical world and makes it possible, in this case, for gamers to move through the streets with their mobile phone in search of Pokemon.
Pokemon Go is the most popular topic of conversation especially among young people and adolescents, so much so that the game has quickly turned into a social phenomenon that interests the media around the world.
There are alarms and protests every day demanding that the "hunters" of digital creatures with their instruments in hand do not invade locations where meetings or even religious celebrations are taking place. Some Pokemon hunters have been hit by vehicles on the road or by a train on the railway track because they were so completely absorbed by the search game.
Pokemon Go has become a global phenomenon that is still difficult to understand and open to all sorts of possible speculation. Phenomena on this scale are difficult to analyse.
This is a game that borders on mania. It is clear that the real concern of educators and parents for younger players cannot become an unnecessary bombing of moralistic messages, but it is vital to give the younger generation the tools and techniques to choose what is important and necessary for their cultural growth and to know how to distinguish trends of the moment that only serve to distract from the urgent tasks of their age and our time.
Fantasy Kindles Creativity.
As good educational methods teach, a game is always a serious activity that can serve to reflect and even bring benefits. There is the example of an NGO that has used the game with the slogan "Join us and come and save us", inviting players in the world to become aware of the inhumane living conditions of Syrian children because of the war, associating the real photographs of these small children with fictional characters.
Another interesting initiative was started in the Salesian world. The Salesian Province of North Argentina have used using logic and game technology to invent another game called "Don Bosco Go" replacing Pokemon with Salesian saints.
These two simple initiatives are a sign of the ability of people in different situations to continue to create forms and initiatives to help and educate others.