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Game Designer, Illustrator and Storyteller

Grace X Yang

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—Two Time Award Winning—

BEST OVERALL GAME

Showcased at Toronto Games Week closing ceremony

Presented at Zynga

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HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS

HIRO (2025-Present)

Game Design - Visual Design - UI/UX - Research - Video Editing - and more

Hiro is a start-up focused on creating fun, accessible, physio games for kids.

Our mission is to make physio more fun, accessible, and social for kids with physical disabilities on days when going to the clinic isn't possible.

GUN + RUN = GURN (2024-2025)

Artist, UI-UX Designer

1 v 1 high-speed, parkour hero shooter. Choose from 1 of 2 kids who have different abilities and chase your opponent around a playscape while jumping, wallrunning, bouncing, and swinging.

ARRIETTY POP UP ESCAPE ROOM (2025)

Game Designer, Artist

Pop-up escape room at Toronto's Ghibli Market at the Japanese Canadian Culture Centre

ECHO COMMANDER (2025)

Game Designer, 2D Artist

Online battleship game catered towards blind or visually-impaired players and their friends/families.

PUDDLE JUMPERS GAZETTE (2023-2024)

2D Artist

Wield the power of gossip and drama to shape the destiny of your classmates as the editor of your school's newspaper in the world of elementary school espionage.

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GAME JAMS

Marco Polo (2024)

Designer, Artist

Timeline: 2-3 days

Team: 6

Made for To Jam 2024: "It's supposed to do that"

Two players mess around in a level to figure out what they are supposed to do by watching two progress bars meet eachother at the top. Each level is accompanied with a cheesy quote about teamwork and friendship.

Takeaway: There is never a way to know what players will ACTUALLY be thinking unless you PLAYTEST with unfamiliar eyes.

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Froq's Fantastic Fworld (2024)

Designer, Artist

Timeline: 3-4 days

Team: 5

Made for Game Makers Tool Kit Game Jam 2024: "Made to Scale"

Help Froq reach for the stars in this puzzle platformer where you platforms into the environment, scaling them up or down, to help Froq reach the stars, making what seems out of reach into a possibility!

Takeaway: Communicating between roles. Our design ended up pretty mismatched because the code followed a level format the level designers did not know of.

Troubled Waters (2024)

Designer, Artist

Timeline: 6 days

Team: 6

Made for Brackey's Game Jam 2024: "Calm Before The Storm"

Row your boat to the rhythm of the waves to stay afloat. Inspired by Matthew 8:23-27 and how we should be making sure we don't panic so the storm is easier to take on when it comes.

Takeaway: Team charters are important documents to make sure each role is being taken care of by its rightful owner. Without a charter and governing, decisions are hard to make and justify.

Desert Defusal (2024)

Designer, Artist

Timeline: 6 days

Team: 6

Made for Sheridan's Design week Game Jam of Winter 2024: Micromix

Mircrogame design challenge created with a group of game design students with various levels of experience at Sheridan College.

Takeaway: When working in a team of two artists, it is important, not just to communicate aesthetic style, but also details like line density, framerate. The importance of those distinctions also need to be properly convinced.

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The Tyger Minecraft Level (2023)

Designer, Artist

Timeline: 6 days

Team: 6

Made for Sheridan's Design week Game Jam of Fall 2023: Minecraft level based off poems.

The Tyger by William Blake is a poem about being in awe of the Creator and His creation. Walking through this Minecraft level should evoke that sense of awe, drawing from imagery present in the poem.

Takeaway: Minecraft is a good space to practice blocking out levels as well as pixel art principles.

Heavy Snow (2025)

Designer, Artist

Timeline: 2-3 days

Team: 6

Made for To Jam 2025: "The more there is, the worse it gets."

Top-down puzzle game about pushing a heavy snowball that keeps growing and growing as you push until it gets too heavy for you to handle. But that won't stop our character from getting to his goal.

His goal is to spread joy and so is ours 🥰

Takeaway: Single input controls are very charming and unintimidating. I love to create art about creating art.

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Don't Leaf Me Behind (2026)

Programmer

Timeline: 4 weeks

Team: 4

Made for Games4Change 2026: "Reefs and Rainforests"

Two odd forest critters get displaced from their home, the great rainforest tree. In this new strange place where trees are flat and horizontal, these two symbiotic friends navigate puzzles to find their way back up their tree.

Takeaway: When working on a small team, it's even more important that every member is down for the same level of commitment and passion for the game.

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After You, Eh (2026)

Artist

Timeline: 3 days

Team: 6

Made for TO Jam 2026 Chosen Theme: "After You + Uncooperative"

With politeness at the heart of the Canadian Spirit, race to the finish so you can politely hold the door open for them.

Takeaway: This type of game is a switch up from the usual style of our now studio, Overnight Games. What brought success to our game jams prior was the way each member was responsible for their own level.

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