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Alex Yixuan Xu

creating playful and expressive
interactive experiences

Design-centric Work

problem-solving, research, documentation
Online Reading Exp. Redesigned
Accessible Groove Pizza
E-Save
Bartending 101

Eccentric Work

exploratory, conceptual, meanings
Smile Machine
 Content, Data, Space
 Struggle
 Balance of Life
Follow Your Teacher
 Public Trashcan
Poetry of Collective Expression
Patrick’s Whatever Twitter Bot
Draw N’ Chat
 The Unknown Game Blog 

instagram | linkedin | github
ayxx@nyu.edu
download resume
Mark

Struggle

Interactive Narrative, Programming, 2017

About

Struggle is a visual story game expressing the feeling of anxiety and insecurity as a female traveling alone. The story progresses as the player makes difficult choices with the fear that a single choice can lead to a dark ending. There are 8 different endings.

Visual

The visual style of the game is dark. Every image used is applied a hand-sketched style filter to exhibit the almost surreal situation.




Code

This project is built with p5.js. The main logic of this project is to display data from a text file. The text file is separated into different sections of text, each to be displayed after the player has made a choice. Within the text file, an indicator of the corresponding images to display/sounds to play is placed at the beginning of each sentence. The program then processes the text file according to different indicators.



Play Struggle here.

See code for Struggle on GitHub.
Mark

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