The Reaper's Game(testing)

💡 demo link is below.

The Reaper's Game is an AI-powered narrative survival game designed for the WeChat Mini Games platform. Players face absurd life-or-death scenarios — from being trapped in a burning spaceship toilet to confronting a suicidal best friend in deep space — and must respond through free-form text input.

What makes this game unique is its sophisticated AI judge system: "The Reaper", powered by DeepSeek API. It evaluates player responses across six dimensions including creativity (abstraction), logic, emotional impact, and narrative tension. The AI embodies a narcissistic, eloquent death god with four distinct emotional states (disgust, elegant sarcasm, empathy, sadness) that dynamically respond to player input, delivering commentary laced with historical and philosophical references.

As the lead AI narrative prototyper, I designed a scoring system that rewards imaginative reasoning without compromising feasibility. I developed a multi-layered penalty mechanism for low-effort answers, a dynamic mortality threshold (~55%), and a relationship tracking system that lets the Reaper evolve across play sessions.

The tech stack includes Cocos Creator (TypeScript) for front-end, a Node.js backend with SQLite for persistence, and an asynchronous room-based system supporting social sharing — essential for viral growth on WeChat.

This project highlights my capability in AI-integrated game design and cultural localization for the Chinese market. It complies with WeChat’s strict content review while preserving humour through metaphor and Western references. Social mechanics encourage organic growth; personality evolution sustains long-term engagement.

Currently optimized for over 1000 MAU with analytics-driven tuning, the game demonstrates my ability to turn abstract narrative design into scalable, player-centric experiences using AI technologies.

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City A.:Tales That Survive

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City A: Tales That Survive is a narrative-driven dystopian game set in City A—a stylized metropolis where political factions, religious orders, and elite dynasties fight to control the narrative.

You play as a junior journalist trying to survive and ascend within a corrupt press empire. To do that, you collect and reshape urban legends: stories whispered in bars, encoded in symbols, or buried in bureaucratic absurdity. Each story you publish alters public perception—and with it, your influence in the newsroom.

Choices aren’t just moral—they’re editorial. Do you tell a cleaner lie? Or a truer myth?

Core Systems

Narrative Fragments as Currency: Urban legends are collectible, remixable, and playable.

Faction Dynamics: Your stories align you with or against competing ideologies—Faith vs Commerce, Surveillance vs Myth.

Reputation Web: Every quote, betrayal, and protected source leaves a trace in your network.

Multiple End States: Climb to Chief Editor, found an underground zine, or be devoured by your own legend.

Theme

The legends you collect aren’t just about heroes or villains. They’re about the forgotten people—those with broken umbrellas, unpaid bills, lost cats. In City A, even the weakest stories can destabilize the most powerful lies.

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The Blubber

💡 The film is currently in private submission. DM me for the viewing link.

Overview

Set in a dreamy 1950s kitchen, The Blubber is a 4-minute horror short about a housewife who turns her abusive husband into soap—one slice at a time. Blending mid-century domestic aesthetics with grindhouse violence, the film explores themes of bodily autonomy, repressed rage, and twisted justice.

Creative Context

This project began with a prompt: “a murder involving soap.” From that constraint, I built a symbolic revenge story rooted in tactility, intimacy, and grotesque beauty. We had only one month from concept to screen. Within that time, I wrote and revised the script over 30 times, responding to visual tone changes and team feedback in real time.

My Role

As the writer and one of the creative leads, I helped shape both the narrative structure and emotional direction. This project reflects my precision as a screenwriter, my fast iteration workflow, and my collaborative mindset under high pressure.

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Runaway Girls By the Lake

This self-edited visual experiment reworks footage I shot in late 2022—moments from my personal life—into a short piece tinted with light sci-fi.

Created during the shadow of the pandemic, it channels a sense of isolation, fury, and fragmentation I carried through 2022–2023.

It may not be a healthy work—but its editing logic, tonal control, and fragmented storytelling trace the path I’ve walked to get here.

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Letter From Letters

🎬 National Short Film Runner-up – China Collegiate Computing Competition

Set in the aftermath of the 1888 Chinese Exclusion Act, Letter From Letters follows Chen Yaozu, a young Chinese-American who returns to Guangzhou in search of a family and a homeland he barely remembers.

As he unearths a chest of unsent letters and long-buried truths, he is forced to reckon with memory, guilt, and identity across two fractured cultures.

Told across four poetic seasons, this 17-minute period drama blends stylized visuals, traditional Chinese color theory, and emotional realism to explore diaspora, belonging, and the silent legacies of love.

▶ Watch the film: Letter From Letters

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Sex Robot

Sex Robot is a dystopian sci-fi drama (8 x 50') set in the rebuilt mega-city of New Chang’an after World War III. The series follows Lan, a discarded maternal android, as she escapes state control to search for her lost son. Along the way, she becomes an unlikely revolutionary figure in a society that enforces “spinal contracts” to enslave sentient beings.

Combining a bleak futurist vision with intimate psychological storytelling, the show explores themes of artificial motherhood, memory manipulation, and post-human ethics. As Lan recovers hidden black boxes across toxic zones and corrupted cityscapes, her journey shifts from personal survival to collective rebellion.

Development Status: Full pilot and series outline complete; pitch materials available. The series blends Eastern political allegory with Western genre structure, aiming for an international adult animation audience in the vein of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Undone.

Recognition: Sex Robot was shortlisted for the 2025 WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab.

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Adaption: Citizen Sleeper S1

📍 Adapted independently for academic and portfolio use. Not affiliated with Jump Over the Age.

Adaptation Content

Coverage – narrative analysis
4-page Treatment – story restructure
10-page Script – adaptation of the opening segment

I translated Citizen Sleeper 1's branching gameplay and fragmented world into a serialized narrative arc focused on memory, labor, and survival under capitalism.

This adaptation allowed me to closely dissect the game’s elegant side quest structure and its modular branching design—an architecture that beautifully supports the game's melancholic space-station setting.

In turning it into a series, I experimented with narrative focus: isolating central story threads, simplifying the structure, and reshaping the world around a more emotionally centered version of the protagonist, Sleeper.

Through this process of breakdown, reconstruction, and tonal translation, I began to observe how shifting emotional emphasis transforms narrative texture—and discovered where my own design instincts lean within interactive storytelling.

▶ Read First 10 Pages (Citizen Sleeper Adaptation)

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After School

▶ Read Script (AFTER SCHOOL)

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Haunted Fox

💡 Play the interactive demo online

Overview

Haunted Fox is an interactive detective noir built entirely with Ink scripting language. Set in a rain-soaked city where memories blur with reality, players guide Detective Michaels through a labyrinth of cold cases, corrupt colleagues, and personal demons.

Narrative Design

The story unfolds through branching dialogue trees and evidence examination. Every conversation choice affects Michaels' mental state, relationships with informants, and ultimately, which version of the truth she uncovers. The narrative explores themes of institutional corruption, memory manipulation, and moral compromise.

Technical Implementation

Technology Stack:

Ink scripting language for branching narrative logic
JavaScript for runtime integration and state management
HTML5 & CSS3 for responsive, mobile-friendly interface
Custom typewriter effects for atmospheric text presentation

Design Philosophy

This project represents my exploration of minimalist interactive fiction—stripping away visual excess to focus purely on narrative tension and player agency. The noir aesthetic isn't just stylistic; it's embedded in the mechanics through unreliable narration, time pressure, and the constant question of who to trust.

Development Process

I handled all aspects of development: narrative design, Ink scripting, web implementation, and deployment. The project showcases my ability to create complete interactive experiences from concept to shipped product, with particular focus on narrative systems design and player choice architecture.

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Tigger Was Crying

Tigger Was Crying is a taut, voice-driven audio play that captures the fragile, volatile emotional world of teenage boys in crisis. Set in the echo chamber of late-night phone calls, the story follows Julian and Gary—two boys bound by online raids, school gossip, and unspoken grief. As one confronts heartbreak and spirals into violent ideation, the other tries, awkwardly, to keep things light—until it’s too late.

Written with a sharp ear for how boys dodge vulnerability with dark humour and bravado, the piece explores themes of betrayal, male mental health, and the thin line between sincerity and performance in the digital age.

The piece is currently in post-production and will be officially released via Goldsmiths, University of London by late 2025.

▶ Read Script (Tigger Was Crying)

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Teeth & Tongue

🏆 ArcJam 2025 Shortlisted | 12-Hour Game Jam Challenge

Overview

Teeth & Tongue is a body-horror interactive narrative exploring themes of identity, consumption, and transformation. Built in just 12 hours during the Game Writing SIG Arcjam 2025, this project earned a Best Narrative Design nomination.

Concept

The player navigates a visceral, dreamlike space where language itself becomes flesh. Words have weight, choices have consequences measured in bone and sinew. The narrative probes the boundaries between self and other, asking what we consume and what consumes us.

Design Philosophy

This project serves as a playable proof-of-concept for High Keep Child, an upcoming larger-scale narrative game. It demonstrates my ability to create compelling interactive fiction under extreme time constraints while maintaining thematic coherence and emotional impact.

Recognition

Shortlisted at ArcJam 2025, a competitive 12-hour game writing challenge organized by the Game Writing SIG. Within these 12 hours, I taught myself Arcweave—a node-based narrative design tool—from scratch and built this complete interactive experience.

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Leaf Wang 小叶

"The world's vast and strange, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are."

Spotlight

Sex Robot | WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters' Lab

Find the One

Teeth & Tongue

City A: Tales That Survive

Work

Creative Philosophy & Methodology

Can We Work Together?

The Reaper's Game(testing)

City A.:Tales That Survive

Core Systems

Theme

The Blubber

Overview

Creative Context

My Role

Runaway Girls By the Lake

Letter From Letters

Sex Robot

Adaption: Citizen Sleeper S1

Adaptation Content

After School

Haunted Fox

Overview

Narrative Design

Technical Implementation

Design Philosophy

Development Process

Tigger Was Crying

Teeth & Tongue

Overview

Concept

Design Philosophy

Recognition