LIN Ziyi

Game Designer

To create worlds that connect us.

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Games

Pipe Racer

Race Pipe-Build 2-Player Action
2023.7-2023.9Internal Company Game Jam

This is a two-player competitive game where you act as a lord, build pipes and compete with other countries to secure water sources for citizens. Save your country during droughts by building pipes, drawing water sources, and using various props to disrupt your opponent!

Handy Helper

3-match shoot 2000s art pixel
2025.7-2025.10Independent Project

This is a 2D pixel-style match-3 game where you play as a little hand that can shoot and hover. Clear color blocks in a collapsing version of Windows Paint, find tools, and dig for memories!

Day Day Dream

Point-Puzzle Casual Education
2022.4-2025.11"Introduction to Ludology" Course

This is a 2D casual puzzle game based on childhood textbooks. Your mind travels among the books, roaming through the garden of knowledge.

Other Works

Exp10sion

2D Platformer Puzzle
October 2022Ludum Dare 51

My Role: Game Designer, Artist

A platformer puzzle game about a bomber man booms every 10 seconds and respawns, and collaborates with the former “himself”. Developed in Unity.

Giggle is a Ladder

2D Platformer
August 2022Gcores Booom Game Jam

My Role: Project Lead, Game Designer, Environment Artist

A platformer where you act as a ghost that can create dialogue box of a giggle, which serves as a ladder for you to climb and jump. Developed in Unity.

Jeans and Cat

Stop-Motion Animation
December 2022Intro to Animation

My Role: Creative Director, Scriptwriter, Material Fabricator, Animator

A stop-motion animation about mass-produced jeans discovering their covered individuality after a kitten's scratch reveals their unique characteristics.

Finding Zen in Ordinary Life

Game Analysis Essay

A critical analysis of A Little to the Left. It explores how the game shifts the challenge from exploration to deep observation, balancing difficulty with observational skills to induce a state of Flow and turn organizing into a meditative Zen experience.

Experience

Yoka Technology 2023 - 2025

Game System Designer

Zhejiang University 2019 - 2023

Psychology, Bachelor of Science