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Zijian "Zed" Zhou

Biological Medical Engineering -> Game Design National Olympiad in Informatics -> Drum n bass Producer Basketball Player -> OTAKU Still trying to discover more possibilities.

Projects By Zijian "Zed" Zhou

MonsterFarm

Sin-k

Semantic Satiation

Nosedive
Why are you studying games?
Because of LOVE!
Describe your most embarrassing playtesting moment.
There was one time that I was testing the multiple interactive techniques we applied in a 2d platform game, and the playtester gives us a fairly philosophical question: "What's the meaning of your game?" It took me a while to understand that he was not sarcasm, and took me a longer while to really come up with an answer. No idea that you will encounter philosophical question in playtests. But there are all kinds of players.
What's your secret weapon?
I'm good looking. No, I'm serious. This is a secret weapon because nobody ever know it. Perfectly secret.
How has the Game Center changed your thinking about games?
It changes my ideas towards game by providing me the most powerful weapon on earth : Words. Now I can really see things and think things, comparing to my previous status of vaguely sensing something. By means of most powerful weapon, I've already exclude A-bomb.
What do you hope to accomplish after school?
Be the BEST game designer EVER. Cause this is a impossible mission( it's impossible even in definition ), there is always going to be something that encourage me to keep going.
What's the last great game you played and what's great about it?
Muramasa. From the visual representation, fictional world and the sense of action, this is a master piece.
What's your favorite New York City spot?
MoMA. So many inspiring things.