How I would Make Improvements to Genshin Impact

By Ho Qingxiang The Design Missteps of a Live-Service Game In a prior article, I talked about the ways that Genshin Impact can improve its endgame content to give greater motivation to players to continue with the game. This time, I will be talking about the other flaws within Genshin Impact that has a compounded…

Game Talk: To Be You

With Zikun Lim To Be You was first conceptualised by a team from Better.sg in 2020. The game went on to be one of the winners of the 2020 MCCY:Mission Unite Hackathon. Better.sg is a non-profit volunteer-run organisation that drives technology for good in Singapore. Zikun is the Project lead and Design Team Lead for…

Simple Article: 5 Types of Games For Healthcare

By Ho Qingxiang Inviting Play to Level Up your Health As human societies become more prosperous, healthcare is no longer limited to medical treatment and medicine. Rather than solely relying on medical professionals to provide care when diseases and injuries occur, there has been a greater emphasis on preventive healthcare and care at home to…

Spotlight Interview: Anna Preedanon from Sunny Syrup Studio

Sunny Syrup Studio is a game studio founded in 2021 and located in Thailand. They are a team of individuals consisting of talented artists and game dev who love videogames. They have come from many lines of work ranging from a fashion designer, an ex-pharmacy student, and a university professor to graphic designers but they…

Simple Article: The Life Lessons that Boss Fights can Teach Us

By Ho Qingxiang Play Negotiates Life In William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It, there is a phrase ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely Players’. This is a quote that I am fond of, but more from the perspective of games rather than theatre. If we consider interactions…