Game Designer & Gameplay Engineer
Annika Liu

Dumpling Folds
Game Designer | Concept Artist
Game Design Doc
Intro
Dumpling Folds is a single-player VR experimental game where you play as a Chinese office worker visiting home during the Lunar New Year holiday to make dumplings with your family.
Game Details
- Platform: Unity
- Genre: VR experimental
- Team size: 2
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Learned how to make dumplings and recorded the process on video, analyzing finger and palm positioning at each step to design VR-integrated interactions that feel as immersive as possible
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Designed the characters and tested various texture and brush styles, settling on a crayon-like effect with strong red-green contrast to evoke the Lunar New Year atmosphere with an underlying eerie tone
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Mapped out the complete game flow from start to finish, detailing what is happening and what the player does at every moment
