zitaoye

Zitao YE is a game designer, writer, translator, works at Tencent NExT Studios for creative game incubation in Shanghai, producer of "Gameplus+" project and "Gameplus" cross-border game research and creation workshop, manager of independent media lab "Sunset Sway", host of its podcast and its translation/curation project about video game called "sunset project" (xpaidia.com/sunset-project). He is also the author of independent experimental game works such as "Make a Poem"(A literature machine that produced 100k poems), "Sword Zen" and "The Shape of Time" (IGF 2022 Nuovo Award Honorable Mentions, GDC EGW 2022, Indiecade 2022 Nominee) etc.

He is actively promoting the cross-border connection, clarification and creative activities between video games and humanities, art and technology ; He is currently developing an "interface research creation" methodology for game studies research, creation and ontological thinking to address the current cultural dilemma of video games. He graduated from Nanjing University and went on an exchange trip to l'Université Paris-Diderot, and has an interdisciplinary background in history, philosophy, art history and cultural creativity, and IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science).