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Games
Journey to Chang’an is a 2D serious game that aims to raise players’ interest in the culture and history of the Tang Dynasty. This is an individual game project for NYU Shanghai Interactive Media Arts capstone.
Serious Game
Cultural Heritage
RPG
A digital board game with a background set in the Silk Road region. Players, given the mission of saving the region from environmental declines, can experience trading, adventures, diplomacy, and more in a grand area from the east to the west.
Board Game
Silk Road
Multiplayer-Collaborative
Battle of the Haihua Island tower defense game that is inspired by a Chinese survival show CHUANG. The game background story is about the participants from this show fighting against internet haters and protecting their base camp.
Tower Defense
Pixel Art
Cross-media Adaptation
The way home is a web-based interactive text game. In this game, players would play a character who was sent to an unknown world by accident and try to find the way home. Through the adventure, players can experience diverse storylines and trigger multiple endings.
Text Game
Open-world
Original Worldview
Audio
A music storytelling project that introduces the rise and fall of the history of the Tibetan Buddhism temple Hein Herva in Inner Mongolia. All the sound effects in this piece are sampled from different digital games.
Music Painting
Sound Visualization
History & Culture
An audio project based on on-site recordings from Chongming Island, Shanghai. By indicating the pass of time, this project enhances the contrast between natural sounds and industry sounds in the same rural village.
Field Record
nature
Soundwalk
Interactive Media
Overseas is a mobile APP prototype that aims to help students find and apply for suitable overseas education programs. The accurate and smart push feature could offer great assistance.
Education
High-fidelity
User Research
Black Sun is a VR metaverse platform created by NYU Shanghai Interative Media Arts team. The project is originated from the homonymous concept in the fiction Snow Crash. Students and faculties together built this world with a black-and-white pixel art style.
Virtual Reality
Metaverse
Modeling
A web-based data visualization project that focuses on cities appeared in traditional Chinese poetry. Users can explore various cities on a China map to get to know their connections with over 20000 Songci poems.
Data Visualization
History
Poetry
A web-based interactive system that serves as a Tarot fortune-telling tool. The project is an extension of the game project The Way Home. Different virtual characters are included to diverse the user experience.
p5.js
Fortune Prediction
Voice Interaction
Traditional Media
A Nap in the Yard is a short hand-drawn animation clip that follows the traditional Chinese painting art style and introduces traditional dance. The clip depicts a magical encounter with a dancing girl in a short dream.
2D Hand-drawn
Cultural Heritage
Movement Animation
HEROrchestra is an interactive interface project that involves gaming and music/ cultural education for kids through stories of representative hero characters. This is a collaboration project between NYU Shanghai Creative Experience Design Lab and Hangzhou Yungu School.
Educational Technology
Gamification
Body Interaction
A 5-minute film clip that records the late night of the city Shanghai. Ordinary people's lives are focused on and depicted in this project, and the meaning of "night" is discussed in diverse aspects.
City Documentary
Shanghai
Self-dubbing
