Daisy Jin(info)
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Daisy Jin is a graphic & game designer with a focus on multi-media entertainment based in Los Angeles, CA. She explores the spectrum between whimsicality and practicality of "tools," employing visual language to uncover concealed mirth within commonplace.
Chapter IWhimsical “Tools”Visual and Interaction Design
Zhuan QingshanInteractive Projection2024
REMOONSystem Design2022
GooyBrand Identity2021
CallicVariable Font Design2022
DigiphetHologram Installation2023
Bug Report : 2018Experimental2022
Deconstructing LegibilityGlass Making2022
All Possible Wine GlassExperimental2022
(R)PetsApp Development2023
(non)SupermarketWeb Development2023
What If Michelangelo Was RichMaterial Exploration2023
takin.aiBrand Identity 2023
Chapter IIPractical “Tools”Game and Experience Design
The Archivist
Virtual Reality Experience 2024
RootsAdventure PC Game 2023
Grandma GreenCozy Mobile Game2023
FandomeEditorial Board Game2022
WindMobile AR Game2023
Hanzi TarotPuzzle PC Game 2023
Cubix QuestPuzzle PC Game2023
Hanzi Tarot
Hanzi Tarot
puzzle game design
Sep.2020
game development
Mar.2023
Explore the beauty and complexity of Chinese characters with the Hanzi Tarot game, an experimental puzzle that dives into the fascinating structure of Chinese writing. By crafting unique characters, players experiment with and uncover the nuanced interplay between form, meaning, and sound, challenging traditional interpretations. Beyond linguistic exploration, the game offers tarot readings based on your creations, providing insights through the structure of your characters. The Hanzi Tarot game invites language enthusiasts, puzzle lovers, and the curious to rethink the foundations of Chinese characters, encouraging a deeper appreciation and a fresh perspective on the power of language.
Game ConceptThe process of making inclusion and exclusion posters brought me to think about what makes meaning, and whether art always makes meaning. I landed on the conclusion that “we are allowed to get attracted to things we do not understand, and it’s ok to be fascinated with things that are just visually beautiful.”
So I decided to make another “meaningless” but beautiful thing. I realized that beauty is different from everybody’s standard, so this project could also be “selfish” in a way since I got so attracted to grids and strokes, and it might not be interesting for other audiences.
My intention for creating this game was to let my audiences have fun with grids and strokes and create their own “meaningless” character, however, after realizing it might not be their interests, I added another aspect of interaction: to create a tarot reading system based on grids and strokes, and audiences will get feedback after they finish composing. I guess nobody hates a free fortune teller.
Game Rules
Tarot Reading number of grid: 12 (inversion)
Largest part:亠 (tóu)
Only hook cut, sound head. ——"Words"
Original meaning: heads, upper parts.
Smallest part:夂(zhǐ)
“There is a cause behind the elephant's legs. All the genus of Huai are from Huai.”
Original meaning: Ends, ending.
Your guide: Inverted “Top things ends”
Based on the guide you chose, the meaning would explicitly be: top things (could be understand as things in your head, or good things) seems to ends.
Based on the number of grids which is even, the meaning was inverted, your tops things (again, I would say good things or things you are expecting) will continue happened.
The grid-letter shows that you are very close to your the results you are thinking. It was not clear if the results were good or bad, but they are what you have been thinking recently. The grid-letter also suggests that you shoul face your thoughts and any results that could happened.
number of grid: 6 (inversion)
Largest part:冂(jiōng)
"Outside the city is called the suburbs, the suburbs are called the wild, the wild is called the forest, and the forest is called the 冂. It is like the far world.".
Original meaning: outside the city, outskirts, and the field.
Smallest part:丷(bā)
“Number 8 in it’s up-side-down”
Eight is a lucky number in China, when you read it, it sounds like “rich”, so number eight usually stands for money or fortune.
Original meaning: Eight.
Your guide: Inverted “Fortune out the field”
Based on the guide you chose, the meaning would explicitly be: losing treasure or giving good away.
Based on the number of grids which is even, the meaning was inverted, you will get unexpected fortune or financial support from someone.
The grid-letter suggest that you are very close to your finance expectations. You might want you use this waiting time to keep pushing toward where you want to be, and watch your money carefully while the fortune is coming toward you.
05Experimental2022