Core Design Thinking
Build a compelling core loop, create meaningful challenges and rewards, and understand how games produce a state of flow.
← Teaching
Game Makers
Summer Camp · Student Works · 2026
Game Makers
Workshop
Starting with a promising idea, each team developed its game mechanics, spatial interactions and narrative experience into a presentable XR game prototype.
The Workshop
Design the game
before writing the code
This hands-on workshop was created for future game makers. It focused on the heart of game design: ideas, gameplay and experience. Students explored virtual reality first-hand and worked in teams to turn their concepts into VR game prototypes.
The workshop welcomed students who love games, are curious about VR, AR and MR, or want to understand user experience and game design. Learning began with core loops, challenges and rewards before moving into VR interactions such as grabbing, throwing, spatial puzzles and comfortable locomotion.
VR Interaction
Explore hand-based grabbing, throwing, object manipulation, spatial puzzles and comfortable locomotion.
A Team Project
Develop an XR game prototype and game description, then organise the outcome as a portfolio entry.
Featured Student Project
Unclosed Case
A Republican-era Chinese horror mystery game
Players take the role of an investigator in Republican-era China and enter an abandoned mansion to reopen a forgotten case. Scene investigation drives the experience, while a sanity meter, clue inventory and mirror world give each decision weight.
Core Gameplay
Investigation, sanity and another world
Players search the mansion for clues and connect the evidence. Supernatural encounters alter the sanity meter, affecting both audiovisual feedback and the pressure behind each decision. The inventory organises key objects into a reviewable network, while mirrors become portals to an alternate space.
Studio Diary
From concept to presentation
The workshop documented team discussions, VR testing, digital production and final presentations. Hover over the images to pause the gallery.
More From The Summer Camp
Smart Car Team
Another team assembled, programmed and demonstrated a smart car. As the group did not submit a complete project file, this section documents their collaboration and hands-on process through photographs.
Final Outcomes
A game interaction design document
and a complete project presentation
By the end of the workshop, students had organised their prototype, design rationale and presentation materials into a portfolio-ready project entry.
Return to Student Works →