Yichen Pan is an Interdisciplinary Game Designer and Media Artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her works span from games, animation, installations, and peripheral designs. She’s passionate about interactive storytelling and designing immersive experiences that evoke empathy.

*Website under construction! Last updated in August, 2024.

Games

Mindful Forest explores the cityscape and.

Ninja Mouse

(Individual, 2023)

Ninja Mouse is a 2D arcade game. 1-min quick experience.

(Individual, 2023)

Bobbles is a two-part interactive project. It reimagines the human-ocean relationship as a dynamic, reciprocal, and loving social connection.

(Individual, 2023)

Mindful Forest

Echoes

Wind Will Tell

(Individual, 2023)

Echoes is a VR narrative experience and a medium-specific approach to explore the themes of imaginary friends, companionship, and internal mindscapes.

(Team, 2023)

Wind Will Tell explores therapeutic landscapes as all-inclusive restorative environment, aiming for a healing, meditative game experience.

Elevator

(Individual, 2023)

The Elevator is a 2D narrative game. Inspired by mind palace and personal memories about moving around in the city.

Bobbles

Hybrid >>

Controller >>

3D Games >>

Interdisciplinary

To All The Falling Stars

(Individual, 2023)

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory


Sandbox Game Controller

(Individual, 2023)

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and


Tools: Houdini, Unity, DragonFrame

Capstone project shown at UCLA DMA Undergraduate Exhibition. More coming soon.

animation

Houdini / VFX

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory

If I have A chance to…

(Individual, 2023)

Stop Motion

VR Experience >>

Bobbles (Part.2)

(Individual, 2023)

2D Animation

[ Category: VR ]

Hybrid >>

Games

Controller >>

3D Games >>

Mindful Forest explores the cityscape and.

Ninja Mouse

(Individual, 2023)

Ninja Mouse is a 2D arcade game. 1-min quick experience.

Experiments

(Individual, 2023)

Bobbles is a two-part interactive project. It reimagines the human-ocean relationship as a dynamic, reciprocal, and loving social connection.

To All The Falling Stars

(Individual, 2023)

(Individual, 2023)

Mindful Forest


Echoes

Wind Will Tell

(Individual, 2023)

Echoes is a VR narrative experience and a medium-specific approach to explore the themes of imaginary friends, companionship, and internal mindscapes.

(Team, 2023)

Wind Will Tell explores therapeutic landscapes as all-inclusive restorative environment, aiming for a healing, meditative game experience.

Elevator

(Individual, 2023)

The Elevator is a 2D narrative game. Inspired by mind palace and personal memories about moving around in the city.

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory


Sandbox Game Controller

(Individual, 2023)

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and


Tools: Houdini, Unity, DragonFrame

Capstone project shown at UCLA DMA Undergraduate Exhibition. More coming soon.

animation

Houdini / VFX

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory

If I have A chance to…

(Individual, 2023)

Stop Motion

[ Category: 3D Game ]

Hover over me

VR as a worldbuilding media

[ Category: 2D Game ]

VR Experience >>

Bobbles

Bobbles (Part.2)

(Individual, 2023)

2D Animation

Hybrid >>

Controller >>

Experiments

To All The Falling Stars

(Individual, 2023)

(Individual, 2023)

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory

Client Projects

Creative Direction >>


Arduino, Unity, p5.js

Sandbox Game Controller

(Individual, 2023)

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory

Arduino, Unity, p5.js

Showcase Design

(2023)

Capstone project shown at UCLA DMA Undergraduate Exhibition. More coming soon.

Showcase Design

(2024)

Laser Project “Fiat Lux”

(2024)

Laser Project “Fiat Lux”

(2024)

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory

If I have A chance to…

(Individual, 2023)


Served as a creative media director at ModernX, a dance team at UCLA.

My role involved overseeing the creative direction and visual aesthetics to ensure each event was brought to life in a captivating and cohesive manner.

Interactive Art >>

Served as a student worker to work on projects in Art-Sci at UCLA Design Media Arts. Clients included UNICEF Festival of Light, Santa Clarita.

Others >>

Served as a student worker to work on projects in Art-Sci at UCLA Design Media Arts. Clients included UNICEF Festival of Light, Santa Clarita.

Bobbles (Part.2)

Games


VR Experience >>

BOBBLES reimagines the human-ocean relationship as a dynamic and interactive social connection. The project visualizes a healthy social relationship between humans and the ocean through bouncy and transparent bubbles in VR.

Bobbles

Exploring Elastic Boundary Between Humans and the Ocean

Echoes

Exploring Elastic Boundary Between Humans and the Ocean

(2023)

(2023)

BOBBLES reimagines the human-ocean relationship as a dynamic and interactive social connection. The project offers a creative solution for sustainability by v.



Her passion lies in Interactive storytelling with emerging technologies,

This page is for testing!!

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2D Animation

3D Animation

Interactive Animation

Stop Motion

Games

3D Games >>

Individual


Bobbles >>

Exploring Elastic Boundary Between Humans and the Ocean

Games

VR Game

(2023)

Level Design

To All The Falling Stars >>

Exploring Poetic Relationship Between Human and Machine Memory

Wind Will Tell >>

Exploring Therapeutic Landscapes as All-inclusive Restorative Environment


VR Experience >>

Narrative Exhibition

Bobbles

Exploring Elastic Boundary Between Humans and the Ocean

(2023)

Mindful Forest

Wind Will Tell

Exploring Therapeutic Landscapes as All-inclusive Restorative Environment

(2023)

3D Game

(2023)

Team

(2023)

Creative Coding

(2023)

Meditative