Spikes Asia 2015 announces Grand Prix winner
Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity has awarded one Grand Prix and two Golds in the Film category to Saatchi & Saatchi Greater China and Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi Spain for their 'Playing Can Not Be Bad' campaign for Changyou, a leading Chinese online game developer...
Three films were developed around the campaign's idea that 'Playing can't be bad', and play on negative perceptions of online gaming. The campaign contrasts the unhappy realities that gamers face in the real world and the carefree adventures they experience when gaming online. Does online gaming cause antisocial behaviour or do others cause the gamer to escape by playing games? The campaign use ironic humour to look at human relationships.
Winner of the Grand Prix, the film titled 'Mother', features a mother of a young boy infatuated with the gaming universe wondering why her son is unable to get a girlfriend, the narrator questions if that is because the mother is not willing to let go of her son. In 'Little Girl', a miserable father sticks to his online games instead of interacting with his daughter after she puts makeup on him and dresses him up in a tutu. In the third film of the series, 'Employee', a staff member turns to playing games on his mobile device at work because his boss disrespects him. Both won Gold Campaign in the Film category.
Watch the films here:
Employee:
Little Girl:
Mother:
