itsjiahee

...hi, i’m Jiahe, a game designer, visual artist, and writer.i'm currently a BFA student at NYU game center, majoring in game design with a philosophy minor. moving on next year i will be studying illustration at UAL.my creative practice sits at the intersection of image-making, narrative construction, and experimental media, and i explore themes of memory, selfhood, existential uncertainty, and obscure emotions.

beijing | brooklyn, new york

And Then We Go Party at the Shore
2025 - now • with Harper, William, Xinyue
lead visual art, narrative
NYU incubator project, in development. showcasing at GDC 2026.
a theatrical fantasy adventure inside a magical theater. swap heads with npcs and unravel the world's mysteries across four bizarre acts! collage-like art style.
*game trailer
*narrative design document
*narrative prototype in Twine(download and open in browser)

一顆蘋果aN APpLe
2025 • solo • visual novel
Magical Girl Game Jam #12
*ranked #3 for presentation
*selected for online gallery Indiepocalypse #71(December 5, 2025)
a surreal, sentimental visual novel on the theme of magical girls, loss, and bravery. collage-like art style.
*game playthrough video

What's In Your Fridge?
2025 • solo • visual novel/point n click
Untitled Game Jam #118
*ranked #1 for creativity, #2 for audio, #3 for visuals, #4 for overall enjoyment
a short point-and-click experience on the subject of hunger, loneliness, and nihilism. an experiment on mixed-media 2d art.

Deep Blue, Alloy, and the Vessel Made Empty
2025 • solo • interactive fiction
MechJam VI
an emotional fiction about mechs and teenagers from two different eras facing disaster. made with twine.

Just a Fishing Game
2024 • with Harper, Victor, Noel, Derek, Dade
2d pixel art • ui design
a 4th-wall breaking psychological horror game disguised as a retro fishing game.
*game trailer

The Red Rose
2024 • solo • interactive fiction
narrative design
a heartbreaking love story from two perspectives based on the nightingale and the rose by oscar wilde. made with twine.