According to Chen, designing an surroundings conducive to constructive connections is of utmost significance to making a congenial neighborhood. Very typically, poisonous communities come up from aggressive video games which are about one-upping and overpowering different gamers. In Journey, gamers have been made to really feel small by making the surroundings majestic. They had a sense of awe. 

In Sky, Chen needed to simulate social penalties. Too typically, gamers shouldn’t have social penalties in a digital world. If they act badly, they’ll disguise behind a deal with or make a brand new account. In Sky, gamers are recognized by what others find out about them, which implies gamers wants to think about how they deal with others. In addition, gamers can’t disguise themselves. Anything a participant writes within the Sky neighborhood is seen to the participant’s closest pals. 

Players in Sky must “degree up” a relationship, identical to folks in actual life slowly get to know different folks and “degree up” into friendships. Through “leveling up” a relationship and creating belief, gamers earn the power 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 constructive surroundings with out a lot change to the system. Once the social penalties are in place, folks will behave extra like they do in actual life.