Indie game Pluck It wants you to pay attention to your emotions… while plucking hair
Pluck it: Hairs and Emotions tries to combine a wacky idea with deep meaning
Have you thought about what happens after you pluck out a body hair?
Pluck it: Hairs and Emotions is a weird mobile game about, obviously, plucking hair… and experiencing emotion. Now, saying that I totally understand the connection between the two would be a lie, even after playing the game.
Pluck It has 30 levels, each offering a different way to pluck one or a few hairs and leading you to some sort of emotion. Developer Jacky Chou says that he got the idea of a hair-plucking game from his own weird habit: He likes to pluck his chin hair when nervous, and wondered what it’d be like to turn that experience into a game. (He says which body part the hair is plucked from is open to your imagination.) But there’s much more he wants to convey.
“I think there’s way too [much] information surrounding us, and we’re not spending enough time to deal with our own emotions, so I try to make a story like this to get people to pay attention,” he says.
So that means in the game you need to deal with angry hair that catches on fire, kind hair that rescues a chicken, and stressed hair that... lets out poop?
