One pair of
hands, one
long desk.

I grew up in China, a high-school kid who'd (according to my parents) played PC games before he could walk. Around then game design started showing up as a US major, and the hobby suddenly looked like a possible career. I took the long way: BA in AGPM (Art & Design: Games and Playable Media) at UC Santa Cruz (Sep 2019 – Jun 2024), then the MS in Games for Learning at NYU (Sep 2024 – May 2026, about to wrap).

Ichigo Studio is my solo practice — design, code, art, the lot, all under one roof. The work sits at the intersection of experimental mechanics and well-scoped ideas: look outside games for the spark, build a mechanic that isn't already a thing, scope tight, playtest, cut. Each project gets the length it wants — no longer, no shorter.

The studio name comes from Bleach — the first manga I followed for years, and the one that shaped how I think about characters, worlds, and making things. Ichigo is the main character's name; in Japanese it also reads as “strawberry.” Keeping both felt right.

When I'm not making games I'm playing them, reading manga, drawing in margins, or replaying the ones that shaped how I think about design — Xenoblade, the Souls / Bloodborne run, Divinity: Original Sin II, Rimworld, Journey. Moving back to Shanghai this summer to live with a small white terrier named Bobo — he'll be in most photos shortly after.