This is crazy. We got a playbooth at GDC 2025 and managed to showcase Tale of Time to game devs, gamers, non-gamers, and even some people I look up to. The playtest results are surprisingly positive — over 80% of players finished the 15-minute demo, and everyone who was stuck at the final level stuck …
We are picking back up Tale of Bagua! It’s renamed to Tale of Time to fit the theme better. It’s also due to the fact that most of our players don’t even know what Bagua is. The game is getting a complete overhaul since Mar 2025. Here are what’s different: Complete level rework, 5 new …
The three devs of Tale of Bagua, Alex Wang, Cecil Boey and I, had the honor of speaking at the Chinese & American Game Dev Summit in Los Angeles. We briefly talked about the inspirations of the project, how the demo was developed in 48 hours, and how we overcame restrictions of Unity 3D engine. …
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Part Changes? Status Length 1 Chapter, 5 levels Mechanics Added QOL feature Core + QOL Visuals Improved Acceptable UI Improved Acceptable Narratives lacking Audio lacking Playable loop Yes, basic Previous Next
Part Changes? Status Length 1 Chapter, 5 levels Mechanics Core Visuals Greatly Improved Acceptable UI Improved lacking Narratives lacking Audio Reduced lacking Playable loop Yes, basic
Introduction Tale of Bagua is a 4D puzzle game developed by a team of three, in which the player overlays portals to access different times in the past. Portal effects are multiplied in the overlapped area, creating a kaleidoscope of historical events. Its idea was sparked on Global Game Jam 2023 and its demo was …
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The first version of Tale of Bagua, created during GGJ 2023. Length 1 Chapter, 5 Levels Mechanics Core Visuals Basic UI Lacking Narratives Lacking Audio Basic Playable loop Yes Features Dimension crossing Each of the bagua mirror can create a dimension which reveals the past. The player can walk in and out of these dimensions. The …
1100 words | 3 minutes | Spoilers Survival games got me obsessed again lately. A potential survival game designer role urged me to revisit this genre, so I went through a selection one by one: Green Hell, Rust, SCUM and No Man’s Sky. None of them made me feel like I was on a mission. …
1300 words | 3 minutes Around fall 2020, when our new Game Design professor Alexander King introduced us to the system design world, I became interested in strategy games and trading games. I’m normally not a number person, but I still did the maths to beat the game. After spending 25 hours playing Port Royale, …
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