In accordance with Chen, designing an setting conducive to optimistic connections is of utmost significance to making a congenial group. Fairly often, poisonous communities come up from aggressive video games which might be about one-upping and overpowering different gamers. In Journey, gamers have been made to really feel small by making the setting majestic. That they had a sense of awe. 

In Sky, Chen wished to simulate social penalties. Too typically, gamers should not have social penalties in a digital world. In the event that they act badly, they’ll cover behind a deal with or make a brand new account. In Sky, gamers are identified by what others find out about them, which suggests gamers wants to think about how they deal with others. As well as, gamers can’t disguise themselves. Something a participant writes within the Sky group is seen to the participant’s closest pals. 

Gamers in Sky have to “degree up” a relationship, similar to folks in actual life slowly get to know different folks and “degree up” into friendships. By “leveling up” a relationship and creating belief, gamers earn the flexibility to converse to these gamers. 

Chen says that toxicity is avoidable and that “sport designers are completely able to altering how folks work together of their digital realms” and might create a optimistic setting with out a lot change to the system. As soon as the social penalties are in place, folks will behave extra like they do in actual life.