Happy Lantern Festival! This marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebration (it lasts for two weeks haha). We celebrate by eating one of my favorite childhood desserts, glutinous rice balls (tangyuan)! ๐คค๐
Rice ball cow and Boba cow canโt wait to eat some tangyuan! ๐๐ป
Happy Lunar New Year / Happy ็ Year! ๐๐งง๐งจ Wishing everyone a safe, prosperous, and lucky year of the Ox! ๐ฎ
Continuing the Chinese zodiac + boba theme, hereโs a cute boba cow celebrating the new year :)
#happylunarnewyear #happychinesenewyear #yearoftheox #2DAnimation #bobacow #iloveboba
Hi everyone! I hope you are all safe, healthy, and well during these hectic times!
These past few months have been crazy with me starting Pre-Production in May for my thesis project Metamorphosis. The game is a 2D narrative experience where you play as a magical undersea creature who must consume toxic contaminants in order to restore the environment. Over the summer, I went from having one teammate, to having 15+ teammates ๐คฏ I was mind-blown, but super happy and grateful to have found teammates who want to work with me on this project ๐ธ
With Fall semester underway (weโre already in Week 6!), weโve moved into Production, and the project is really coming along. My teammates are working hard to balance their own schedules with working on Metamorphosis. Iโm very excited to keep you all updated, so stay tuned! โจ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
Hi everyone! Iโm so excited to announce that two games I worked on will be featured in USC Games Expo! ๐ Iโm so fortunate to have such amazing teammates who made these games a dream come true ๐
Keep an eye out for these games and be ready to play them at Expo!
Birb Runner
Number Two Ice Cream Shop!
RSVP for the event here:
http://uscgamesexpo.com/
Canโt wait to see you all there! :)
I wanted to try making small, simple animations to post on my Instagram story, so I attempted one using Procreateโs new animation assist feature. Itโs a really nice addition to the app and makes animating soooooo much easier, I highly recommend it!
Hereโs the animation I made for a Letโs Make A Boba of the Day story post Iโm planning on continuing for my Instagram!
Happy Lunar/Chinese New Year! I hope everyone has a prosperous and lucky year of the rat! ๐ญ๐
Back in April 2019, I wrote an interactive story for a game about a wolf-human named TianLang who has the amazing superpower of making the perfect boba drink for his customers at A Boba Cafe. I wanted to make this game a reality, and what better time to start than now! ๐๐ป
When I first started grad school at USC for Interactive Media and Games in August 2018, I had little (if not no) experience in Unity. I was limited in my ability to create digital prototypes in a timely manner, which led to me not being able to take my time on personal projects amidst my chaotic school schedule. However, in less than a year, I was able to become proficient and comfortable enough with Unity to attempt prototyping and coding for my own purposes.
I started making my game in December 2019 while I was on Winter Break. Now that school started again, itโll take a while to make my game since Iโll be balancing school work with personal work. But Iโm determined to keep working on it to bring my stories and characters to life! I hope you all look forward to seeing A Boba Cafe! ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ In the meantime, here are some images of my characters (from left to right) - Qilin, Bobasaur, and TianLang!
I completed Matthew Palajeโs Tracer Recall Ability Tutorial back in December and it was a MONSTER to attempt!! ๐ต I thought I was finally getting the hang of fitting all the Blueprints drawings and notes into my tiny Moleskine notebook, but this tutorial proved me wrong LOL. There was so much to write and code that I had to transfer my notes to a giant piece of paper just so I can visualize the entire Blueprint!
Iโm sad I didnโt get to post this earlier! I got sick after Christmas and everything went downhill from there lol ๐ But Iโm feeling better now and Iโm excited to get back into my work schedule! ๐ช๐ป๐ฅ
Itโs winter break, which means itโs time to rest and level up some game design skills! Iโve been learning how to use Unreal for the past 2 weeks using Matthew Palajeโs โLetโs Createโ Tutorials and they are incredibly helpful and easy to follow. Here are some of the early examples of notes I wrote down while redrawing the Blueprints that really helped me better understand the logic flow! (Needless to say, I wasnโt ready for the spatial complexity of Blueprints ๐)
