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In A Perfect Day, players travel back in time to 31 December 31, 1999, playing as ordinary primary school student Chen Liang. This fateful day loops continuously, giving the player the chance to encounter in-game characters again and again, perceiving their joys and sorrows and furthering their stories in order to experience the ‘perfect day’.

About the Developer

Deng Buran is a game developer and producer, who has ten years of game developing experience. His work focuses on videogame narratives with the belief that videogames will change or save the world.

Word Game is designed with traditional Chinese characters as the game’s core element. They not only act as narrative devices that guide players through the game’s storyline, but symbolise fictional characters and objects, configuring the scenes and spatial arrangements found in the game.

About the Developer

Team 9 is a creative studio based in Taiwan, which focuses on producing digital content and innovative products with members from various backgrounds, including design, programming and marketing. Established in 2018, the group believes ‘it is the way we see the world that defines the world we see.’ Team 9’s adventures began with Word Game, while the group continues to challenge conventional experiences, blurring the boundaries between virtuality and reality.

Forgetter is an exploration videogame in which the art collection from dslcollection seeps into the narrative. Set in the near future, players take up a job at a technology company as cleaners of dead artists’ brains, identifying and removing traumatic memory blocks in their minds in order to recycle their brains for newborns. Many memory blocks are constituted by Chinese contemporary artworks. (The designers thank dslcollection to provide the digital version of their artworks used in the game).

About the Developers

Yang Jing (Allison) is a producer and narrative designer, and game exhibition curator. Forgetter, is her latest collaboration with dslcollection. She curated Game Site, an exhibition about game production in China in Tank Art Shanghai, and worked with Goethe-Institut in Hong Kong to launch game space community project Game Kitchen. Her two latest projects include Accelerating Dimension, a narrative experience with choreographer Zelia Tan and a survival game inspired by her childhood in former German Democratic Republic and Northern China in the 1990s with Leipzig-based game studio RotxBlau.

Alan Kwan is an artist, game designer, and technologist. His projects, including experimental videogames, VR experiences, interactive installations, etc., explore new possibilities of real-time 3D technologies that depart from the traditional videogame paradigm and typical tech fantasies of VR/AR. They were presented at Ars Electronica Center in Austria, ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Germany, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, etc., and were featured in media including Discovery Channel, Popular Science, and Boston Globe. Alan received his M.Sc degree from MIT, and was previously awarded the first prize of the MIT Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize, Honorary Mention Award in Prix Ars Electronica, Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, etc. Currently, he is also part of the faculty at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts where he teaches and develops research projects that focus on the intersection between immersive technologies, virtual worlds, and performing arts.