Introduction to PhD Simulator
PhD Simulator is a word game in which the player assumes the role of a newly admitted student who, after passing the PhD qualifying exam, publishes enough papers to meet graduation requirements or exiting the graduate school.
Features of PhD Simulator
Although it is a text simulation game, players may face many different choices and emergencies. For example, after reading the references, you may get an idea, but further study may prove it is not suitable. At the same time, other members of the laboratory may affect the experiment and ultimately affect Hope Score. The Hope Score starts at 50 and goes up when things happen that are good for graduation. This score drops when adverse events occur. When the score drops to 0, the player is kicked out and must restart the game.
PhD Simulator provides players with an opportunity to choose once a month. Players can read literature, continue experiments, study references, or take a break. Different choices will bring different random events, and to graduate smoothly, players need to get three published papers. This means that the process of reading, experimenting, submitting, and revising must be repeated at least three times. In these activities, experimental failures and rejections of submissions may occur and affect the progress of the game.
PhD Simulator also restores the role of a mentor, who will have an impact on players based on random events (at present, mainly positive effects), and at the same time restores the role of a reviewer (at present, mainly negative effects). This may be different in reality.
Summary
PhD Simulator is a simple and excellent text simulation game, which is worth playing. It can provide some inspiration in balancing work and life and facing real problems.
Reference:
PhD Simulator – A Text-Based Game by Mianzhi Wang
