Nothing, that is, but a bunch of people crazy about gangster mafia game, which is actually how Eugene achieved his goal. He ended up creating two companies with the help of expat Mafia players, one from Denmark, the other from Australia. Today, most of his closest friends, he tells me, are foreigners he met through the club.
It turns out, pretending to kill one another can really bring people together.
Meanwhile, back at Lundin’s Mafia meetup, a Chinese woman named Joy is killing it — pun totally intended — for the civilians, picking off Mafia one by one.
She keeps insisting her English isn’t very good, but she’s had a lot of practice at the game. About six years ago, Mafia — or the “Killer Game,” as it’s known there — became huge in China. Dozens of brick-and-mortar clubs sprang up across the country, complete with high-tech screens and audio systems blasting sound effects — all of which are completely unnecessary, given this is purely a storytelling game.
Silvia Lindtner, who teaches at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, spent two years in China researching the Yotta Game. As she discovered, the Killer Game boom had everything to do with the booming Chinese economy
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English: Mafia City
Chinese Traditional: 黑道風雲H5
