About me

  Game Livly is a mobile game popular in Japan that revolves around dressing up your avatar, personalising your small island and taking care of pet-like companions. The concept is somewhat similar to a shared website called Picrew where creators can send in drawn avatars with multiple outfits and styles for people to choose from. There is no narrative in this game that tells a plot as its main purpose is akin to dress-up games.  Character My character is a custom avatar personally chosen by my style and preferences. It is a character void of personality as it intends to be a blank canvas for players to design. The catch here is that clothes and accessories are claimed through a gacha mechanic. Gacha is where an amount of currency is traded for a random in-game item. These items are in banners that show their rarity from the hierarchy of “normal”, “ rare” and “super rare” with banners that appeal to different styles such as techwear, dark academia, and street casual. This mecha...

 Lee, Goun  Professor Hyun Jung Interaction Design  17 March 2024 Fictional Worlds  The idea of conjuring up a world that branches off from reality has been a topic of discussion for world designers. To create and develop a fictitious world filled with elements that immerse people in that environment. The question asked is what makes a world and how is it created?  The word “Design fiction” has been mentioned in a study by Coulton et al., in 2017 and is defined as the building of worlds. This in no case is related to narratives and storytelling as seen in countless media; it mainly focuses on the technical aspects of world-building and what makes the world what it is. The incorporation of diegetic prototypes as explained makes up the world and is seen as natural in that set context. Moreover, the introduction of artifacts serves as entry points that bring believability and immersion to audiences, letting them see it as credible from the details of the world and...

                                                                                                                                                              " About Me" To start simply, I am Goun lee, an ordinary person living a mundane routine life. I define Ordinary as simplicity since I do activities I am used to and am familiar with daily. Although this is what a lot of people feel nowadays, something that I struggle with that I feel alone in, is my fear of trying something out of my comfort zone. Whether it be ne...