So, why is it so popular? Theo Jacobs, a junior at the iSchool, says they know why. You also have to be able to lie seamlessly as an imposter to win. It’s a game of trust, of deception, and of trying to get to the bottom of things.
You have to be able to solve a murder by piecing together alibis and by choosing who sounds trustworthy and who doesn’t. The game is one of very few nowadays that is built around social interaction and deduction. When a person does find a body, a “report” button glows up on their screen, and they can report the body, bringing all players, crewmates and impostors together to discuss who they think is an impostor. They can turn off the lights, creating a dense fog that limits peoples’ vision. Impostors can close any door in any room, either to trap a crewmate in somewhere, or to stop them from discovering a body. They can sabotage, which means creating crisis around the ship to either distract the crewmates from a crime scene, or to set up an easier one. The impostors’ main goal is to take out, or eliminate enough crewmates so that the amount of crewmates left equals the amount of impostors, at which point they win. There can be one to three impostors in one game. However, all of the action in the game is controlled by the Impostor, or Impostors. The job of a Crewmate is pretty straightforward: they are assigned a number of tasks that they have to complete, some “common” tasks that all players have, like card swipe on the original map, which is most similar to a spaceship. Either they are crewmates, or they are a secret impostor. Four to 10 players log on to a game, which is either public or private, and before the start of the game, they are assigned a role. So, what’s the game about? If you’ve ever played Mafia with friends, you’ll see the similarities. For comparison, the game had 19 peak players in November 2018. In September, the game hit its peak of active players in a month, with 438,524 players on the app in a day. The game, released in 2018 by Innersloth, wasn’t publicly recognized until this summer, when it took off. Now, it seems like it’s the only thing on everyone’s mind. You’ve been warned.If you stopped by a Discord server in 2018 and asked your friends to play Among Us, they probably wouldn’t know what you’re talking about.
(That said, it’s also a very effective procrastination tool.
It’s comforting to have a safe space filled with positivity during such a stressful time like finals. Regardless of where the idea for the page originated, I’m glad it’s here. The founder of Syracuse University Compliments states in the page’s About secion that he or she was inspired to start the page after seeing the one for Queen’s University in Canada. The trend has even started to receive some national media coverage in recent weeks. James Madison University has had a compliments page since 2011 along with several other universities. It’s really refreshing, and even inspiring, to go to the Syracuse University Compliments page and see nothing but nice things being said about our classmates.Īlthough compliment fever just hit Syracuse University, we’re a bit late to this party. YouTube comments are like an unreadable abyss of negativity (and grammatical errors) and even Facebook, which lacks anonymity unlike Youtube, has a definite flame war problem. I love the Internet as much as (probably even more than!) the next person, but sometimes, it’s used to say some pretty brutal things to people. You’re a nice guy.” The page has exploded across campus at SU and has gained over 1,500 likes in under a month. Posts on the page are generally to a single person, but sometimes an organization, and say things such as “Dear Brianna, you never fail to make me laugh” or “Hey Darryl, thanks for helping me with my final project. Syracuse University Compliments is moderated by an anonymous individual who receives the compliments via Facebook message and then filters through to ensure that nothing negative is posted to the page. It’s called “ Syracuse University Compliments” and it’s very much in the same vein as pages like “Overheard at ,” but with a twist:everything said on it is genuinely kind-hearted and meant to make someone’s day better. You may have heard buzz about a new Facebook page that’s popped up in the Syracuse University community.
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