背景介绍

《旅行青蛙》 原名旅かえる，是由游戏公司HIT-POINT研发的休闲小游戏，是一款放置类型手游，支持Android/iOS运行。

2018年1月，这款养生的佛系游戏，迅速受到广大佛系青年的喜爱，成为了朋友圈新式刷屏内容。网友们从“晒娃风”刮成了“晒蛙潮”。只要给它收拾好行囊，它就会自动出门远行。玩家的视角仅有庭院以及屋子里两个场景。主角是一只可爱的小青蛙，玩家可以给它取名字。通过收集三叶草去商城买东西，有食物、幸运符、道具。青蛙带着这些东西就会出门旅行，然后旅行途中会邮寄照片，回来还会带回来当地的土特产。但是，“旅行青蛙”出不出门、什么时候出门、什么时候回来，全都是随机的。

原文标题：Why has 'Travel Frog' gone viral on China's Internet?

A mobile game that lets you raise a virtual frog has become surprisingly popular in China.

在中国，一个可以让你养虚拟青蛙的移动游戏变得非常受欢迎。

Called Tabikaeru, which translates to Travel Frog, the game features an adorable frog who loves to go on adventures. Using clovers as currency, players can purchase food and travel supplies for the frog, then they can pack its luggage before sending it on its way. It will then post pictures and souvenirs back from its trip.

一款被称为Tabikaeru的游戏，被翻译成了《旅行青蛙》，游戏的特色是喜欢冒险的可爱青蛙。 使用三叶草作为货币，玩家可以为青蛙购买食物和旅行用品，然后就可以收拾行李出门了。 接下来它将把行程中的图片和纪念品发回。

The game was launched last December, and was developed by Japan’s Hit-Point, the company best known for creating Neko Atsume, a cat-collecting mobile game that also went viral after its launch in October 2014.

这款游戏于去年12月推出，由日本Hit-Point公司开发，Hit-Point公司以创造了Neko Atsume而闻名（这是一款收集猫咪的手机游戏），该游戏在2014年10月推出后也迅速火了。

Although only available in Japanese, the adorable characters and easy playability soon attracted a huge group of fans in China, becoming one of the hottest topics among Chinese netizens.

尽管只有日语，可爱的角色和易玩性很快吸引了中国的一大批粉丝，成为中国网民最热门的话题之一。

‘I’m worried about my frog son’

“我担心我的青蛙儿子”

“My frog has been gone for more than 24 hours, I’m getting worried.” “My frog has been eating for an hour, that’s too much for its stomach.” These are the common comments about Travel Frog.

“我的青蛙已经走了超过24小时了，我开始担心了。”“我的青蛙已经吃了一个小时了，对于它的胃来说，吃得太多了。”这是关于旅行蛙的常见评论。

Some fans love the game so much that they are making a manga featuring the frog and his friends, and creating stickers out of pictures of the frog to use on social media platforms.

一些粉丝非常喜欢这个游戏，他们制作了一个以青蛙和他的朋友为特色的漫画，并在青蛙的照片上创建贴图，以便在社交媒体平台上使用。

Lots of fans see the frog as their child, and refer it as “my frog son”.

许多粉丝把青蛙当成他们的孩子，把它称为“我的青蛙儿子”。

“Only by playing this game did I start to realize how anxious a mother would be when her child was far away,” said Zhang Yu, a female fan who has been playing the game for two weeks.

一直玩这个游戏两周的女粉丝张宇说：“只有玩这个游戏，我才开始意识到，当孩子远离时，一个母亲会有多么的焦虑。

“It is not intense like DOTA, which makes me feel very anxious and worried about the victory or defeat in a game. At the same time, I think the Travel Frog stepped into the vacuum of the female game market in China,” Zhang added.

“这个游戏这不像DOTA那样激烈，DOTA让我感到非常焦虑，担心比赛中的胜败。 同时，我认为“旅行青蛙”进入了中国女性游戏市场的空白地带。“

“It’s very addictive, I can’t stop checking my frog's status,” Zhao Qing, a 26-year-old female player said. “I’m not paying for in-game currency at the moment, but I think I will if I keep playing it.”

一位26岁的女性玩家赵青说：“这很容易上瘾，我忍不住检查我的青蛙的状态。 “我现在不支付游戏中的货币，但是如果我继续玩，我想我会花钱的。

However, not everyone is drawn to the cute animal.

但是，并不是每个人都被这个可爱的动物所吸引。

“What I don't understand is the meaning of the game. You adopt a frog, and watch it read or make handcraft or eat for maybe a couple of hours, and you get worried when it goes out for a trip,” one of news editors shared his thoughts on the game.

“我不明白的是这个游戏的意义。 你收养一只青蛙，看它读书，或者手工制作或吃上几个小时，当它出去旅行时，你会担心。“一位新闻编辑分享了他的想法。

“Some of my friends even get excited when the frog sends back a photo during its trip. I guess that's the charm of gaming, that you get to relate to the frog almost instantly and become really attached to it. But to me, it's not something real,” he added.

“青蛙在旅途中发回照片时，我的一些朋友甚至感到兴奋。 我想这就是游戏的魅力，你几乎可以立即把它和青蛙联系在一起，并且变得真正地喜欢它。 但对我来说，这不是真的，“他补充说。

英文来源：CGTN

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