Kaisuo
FEATURES
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Slide and manipulate strange intricate puzzle boxes
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Explore a gorgeous Chinese-inspired world through 360° game play
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Precisely interact complex items and move the world at your fingertips
Platforms
Kaisuo will be available on PC and Oculus Rift.
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Background
As a kid, my mother, a docent at the National Palace Museum, would often take me to visit the exhibits. My favorite one was the Curio Boxes owned by emperors. They're elegantly made wooden boxes used to curate and store important and precious treasure. I wanted to create a puzzle game that would reflect sense of exploration and delight that comes with solving and discovering the compartments of a puzzle box. Thus, Kaisuo was created. In Winter 2017, with the help of a couple of friends, I successfully pitched Kaisuo (formerly known as Lantern) to the AGP (Advanced Games Project) program at USC. This gave Kaisuo the possibility to go from a brain child I've been keeping for almost two years to a fully-fledged game.
MEET THE TEAM
Valerie Lin
Director
Tristan Bridge
Designer
Sara Chen
Producer
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Sara Chen is the Producer for Kaisuo. She is currently studying, as a senior, Business Cinematic Arts. She loves cute things.
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Noah Bukhari
Engineer
Sneha Patkar
Engineer
Cynthia Liang
Artist
Joey Tan
2D Artist
Adam Barnett
Composer
Eric Hsieh
Lead Designer
Naomi Jade
Lead Producer
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When she's not making games, she's playing them. Some of her favorites include League of Legends, Witcher 3, and the Elder Scrolls series. Outside of gaming, she loves all things involving cats, food, and space.
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Michael Duan
Lead Engineer
Jesse Warner
Engineer
Qingzhou (Steven) Tang
Lead Art
Yimin Zhang
Artist
Aimee Zhang
2D Artist
Kayla Behforouz
Singer
Katherine Moses
Lead Usability
Anek (Nick) Baweja
Designer
Kenneth Chen
Associate Producer
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As a Business Administration major with a Game Entrepreneurism minor, he loves to tell people his degree in full to sound impressive. His other favorite pastimes include producing associates and being associated with producing.
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Jason Hwang
Engineer
Zijing Liu
Engineer
Rena Chen
Artist
Joule Han
Artist
Thomas Kelleher
Lead Audio Designer
Josh Lai
Usability