Picture this, you’re playing 8 Ball before first period starts and you’re one hit away from winning the game. You line up your stick and you go for it. You miss the shot and your friend rubs it in your face for the rest of the day. Although that’s not the most fulfilling way to start your day, you had fun and are excited for the next round.
GamePigeon is a widely known and popular app made by Vitalii Zlotskii that you download on your phone as a texting game. The app was released in 2016 and is still very popular today. There is a wide variety of games to choose from, the most popular ones being Cup Pong, 8 Ball, and Archery. GamePigeon was very popular when it had just come out, but leading up to 2020 it slowly lost popularity. Once covid hit its uprising started as more people used the app to spend time with their friends without being in their presence, according to the GamePigeon Website.
An interview with Freshman Avalina Wu who enjoys playing this popular game brought further detail to what she thinks of certain games on the app.
“Sea Battle is so garbage. It just takes too long and I think it’s just dumb.” Wu said.
Sea Battle, if you are not familiar, is based on the physical game battleship made by Milton Bradley in 1967.
When friends play GamePigeon most of the time someone is going to get frustrated with their inability to play the game. This frustration brings out the entertaining competitiveness which is a crucial part of the game’s success.
“It shows which people get frustrated easily by losing. Some people like to play until they win, while others just give up and refuse to play certain games against certain people” Wu said.
People play the GamePigeon in class or whenever they have nothing to do. It is an entertaining way to pass the time and play games with your friends.
“[I play] whenever I’m bored and have nothing to do or if I’m only waiting a few minutes for something” Wu said.
Abigail Ma gives insight on the thing people like the most about GamePigeon.
“I love how convenient and accessible it is and how it allows you to play with your friends over text so you can talk and play and that it’s not really a separate software” Ma said.
Competitiveness is what GamePigeon leans on.
“It reveals a different level of competitiveness you would normally only get to see if you played sports with your friends,” Ma said.
Certain competitiveness can lead to people disliking some of the games. The most hated games would be paintball and twenty questions.
“Twenty questions ruin lives” Ma said.
In conclusion, GamePigeon is a fun game that lots of people enjoy, it reveals the competitiveness of players and a fun way to spend your free time. If you don’t have it, download it now!