I‘m Zhexuan Huang, a senior student from Duke Kunshan University class of 2022, majoring in Data Science. I want to use professional knowledge to solve real-life problems. This belief drives me to have the idea of using a newly formed media, which is a video game, to illustrate the problem of severe peer pressure in Chinese education.
The research theme of this project is the aggravating peer pressure in China’s education. Recently, the word “neijuan” (involution) has gained rising popularity in China. Though all Chinese students strives to achieve higher grades, the chances for them to get into universities sadly remain the same. So, they have no choice but to join this “endless fight” against each other. As there’s no easy solution to this problem, we plan to interpret the situation from the perspective of students themselves through a more interactive medium – the video game. The game will be a puzzle-solving adventure game. It’s set in Chinese middle school, and two main characters, a boy and a girl, would go through their bizarre journey that revolts against the fierce competition at school. We did exquisite design on game mechanics, narratives as well as art style to create experiences about what being in “neijuan” is like for players. Meanwhile we put efforts in level design, scene setting and other aspects to guarantee the quality of the game itself, making the game fun to play. During the developing process we also conducted playtests to evaluate the performance of our game and modified our design based on the feedback. My role in this project is developing this game mainly via the Unity game engine. This paper focuses on technical parts including UIUX design, basic function realization, inventory system, etc. Basic elements making up this game including game characters, inventory system, document system, dialogue system, etc. are explained and discussed.
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