Wind Will Tell
Art Therapy Game with Custom Controller
Wind Will Tell is an art therapy game through a series of globes in search of a dandelion, featuring ambient sounds of swaying grass, moving rails, and shifting cityscapes. Switching between first-person and third-person perspectives, players immerse, heal, and empathize with heightened perceptions of their surroundings.
Finalist in alt.ctrl.GDC 2025↗ at Game Developers Conference
Game: Collaborated with Hannah Oh, 5 weeks (2023)
Controller: Solo project, 2 months (2024-25)
Role
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Tools
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Technical Designer
3D Artist
Hardware Developer
Unity
Blender
Arduino
Children with higher sensitivity, like orchids, struggle more to adapt to new environments or maintain focus.
The problem statement is…
Through a restorative environment, reshape perceptions of our surroundings by fostering empathy and understanding among people with varying sensitivities.
The project envisions…
Act I. Garden Globe
Act II. Train Globe
Act III. City Globe
Act IV. Dandelion Globe
Experience Goal:
1 Design a surreal, slow-paced, and emotionally evocative world, incorporating natural elements for immersion.
2 The interaction design is minimalist-style, focused on low-stimulus activities like planet walking to minimize distractions.
3 Use audio and light to subtly guide players to the goal while forming meaningful connections with their environment.
Contributions
As the Technical Designer, I designed and implemented the environment storytelling and mechanics based on our experience goal:
Exposition: A step into nature
Climax: A dynamic spectacle
Revealation: A tale of the wind
Post-climax: An eerie reflection
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As the Technical Artist, I solved these design challenges:
Interactive Feature
Created a single-key camera switch to let players easily toggle perspectives.
Visual Consistency
Designed environments for each scene, aligning with the time of day and narrative progression.
Optimization
Customized dandelion seed particles spawning based on player location, LODs to optimize performance on a high-poly planet.
Credits:
Game: Collaborated with Hannah Oh, 5 weeks (2023)
Controller: Solo project, 2 months (2024-25)
