What Game Jams and Art Projects Are Behind zitaoye's Games?

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Most of the works on zitaoye's itch.io page are prototypes and experiments tied to specific game jams or art projects, and the page itself usually names the event and year next to each title. The jams represented include Global Game Jam (GGJ), Ludum Dare, CiGA Game Jam, GMTK Jam, and NExT Game Jam; the art-side projects include a NExT Studios Gameplus episode and a PSA Emerging Curators Project prototype. Because these are jam builds and prototypes, expect short, rough, sometimes unfinished pieces rather than polished commercial games.

Game Jam Works

The page lists each jam entry with its event, year, and often a theme or ranking tag. The main ones:

Title Event / Year Notes from the page
Sword Zen 劍入禪境 GGJ 2021 Sound-based zen experimental action game
回 声 SOUND RETURN CGJ 2021 Interactive web piece about sound puzzles
GIF Yesterday Once More 昨日重现 GGJ NEXT 2021 Simple action game for kids
The Mnemosyne 2020 Global Game Jam Image-narrative game
罅隙 XIA XI CiGA JAM 2020 Timer prototype
A Broken Car Creature GMTK Jam 2020 Gameplay prototype
HeartBeats [0042] Ludum Dare #46 Theme: "Keep it Alive"; rhythm game
S E E K [0031] CiGA Game Jam, Shanghai Made at coconut station, July 2019
Hold The Button [0004] Ludum Dare #44 Theme: "Your Life is Currency"
CATCH THE ENERY! Ludum Dare 39 Theme: "Running Out of Power"; solo prototype
Shaman's Dance GGJ 2016, Xiamen —
Burst Boy 炸裂男孩 NextJam, 2017 Made with colleagues
Corgi And Cat [0007] Solo jam Described as a simple board game "like Desert Bus for 11"

The bracketed numbers (e.g. [0042], [0096]) appear to be the creator's own numbering of jam entries, not event rankings.

Art Projects and Studio Prototypes

Several works come from art or studio contexts rather than jams:

  • 写首诗吧! Make a Poem — labeled as a NExT Studios Gameplus Project, Episode 1.
  • 寻找冯梦波 In Search of Feng Mengbo — a prototype for the PSA Emerging Curators Project 2020.
  • Hockney's Photo — a photography-collage experiment inspired by David Hockney.
  • IN THE BOX 窄门 (2017.12) — a walking simulator and virtual museum about Hong Kong culture, listed under "Before 2019.4."
  • Boomgie & Woomgie (2017.10) — a co-battle game about space and time.

Personal and Experimental Pieces

Some titles are explicitly personal or conceptual rather than event-driven:

  • bipolar — described as "a simple representation of my bipolar disorder."
  • 无 Nothing — a zen-like meditation game experiment.
  • 时间的形状 The Shape of Time (Remake) — an experimental philosophical game about time.
  • El Hacedor (2018) — a game about line and time.
  • 32768 Parties — a small choices-maker game inspired by an Oulipo-style poem by btr.
  • poem-plant — a simple print-and-play game prototype.
  • Short Game Manifesto — an unfinished manifesto.
  • Mini-Peer [0092] — a narrative timer prototype.

What This Means for Playing Them

The page marks many entries with "Play in browser," but not all — some are listed without that tag, and several are described as prototypes or unfinished. If you want to try a specific title, check for the "Play in browser" label on its entry first. The jam context also explains the scale: these are typically days-long builds with a single mechanic or theme, so judge them as experiments rather than finished games.