ACADEMIC WRITING
The link below opens a PDF page. It is my final paper for the Digital Literacies and Video Games class. My essay, Video Games and Interactive Media: The Path to Future Education, features an overall discussion of why video games are good supplements to traditional education. The paper covers the following topics:
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Skill training and basic knowledge learning
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How Video Games Motivate and Engage with the Audience to Improve Learning
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Self-Reflection, Ethics, and Metacognition: Can We Teach Ourselves to be Better Thinkers/Individuals?
I am currently writing a new paper that covers the following topic:
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The definition of educational games and "serious gaming"
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The importance of using games for education
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The current game genres and existing educational games
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The lack of more educational and "serious" games
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The potential drawbacks of using video games in education
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The future of educational games
A link to the new paper will be attached to this cite when finished.
Video Games and Interactive Media: The Path to Future Education
AN ORIGINAL SHORT STORY
Princess Peach Blossom is a piece of my own writing inspired by a dream. I revised it and used it for the final project of my Crafting the Short Story class. I also drew a portrait of the Princess, which is part of the plot. The Chinese-translated version of the story can be found in the additional link below.
I am re-editing the English version. The updated version will be uploaded to this site soon.
Chinese Version
Princess Peach Blossom, 2022
A POEM FROM THE NO WAY OUT UNIVERSE
I wrote a collection of short stories and poems in my Introduction to Creative Writing class. Similar to how video games sometimes tell stories through snippets of documents and clues the player finds throughout the game, I weaved my main plot into different pieces of writing and poems.
This story takes place in the same vampire universe I described in the previous Games & Projects section (No Way Out). Now, I am also working on revising this story collection. It has been three years since I finished the original version. Nevertheless, I decided to include a poem in this portfolio, a simple little snippet.
I don't write poems very often, but experimenting with novelty is always a pleasure.
Invitation, Watercolor, 2021
Random Thoughts Before Dinner
Cheers to another exhilarating night
The feast has yet to commence
I see the flashes of neon lights
The glass tubes filled with chemical gas
They shine and dazzle like priceless gems
But are as cheap and brittle as a mortal’s life
Drowning in beams of diverging light
Their faces distort and glow in sweat
Pulses dance through throbbing veins
Sweet scents spread across escalating beats
My eyes track every stream that shimmers in joy
Wondering who shall win tonight’s prize?
I am
Undeniably
A mindless shell
Within which a debauched devil dwells
Though I warn those
Who rush to judge -
No one
Is immune
To the poison I took
It eats away your sanity it devours your soul
While you willingly, deliriously, blissfully suffocate
In this everlasting torture
It
Is not a spell nor a charm
But it is more magical and perilous
Than any darkest curse you know
Its name -
Power