Cloud, Flow, Flower, Journey, Sky: Children of the Light
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Xinghan Chen (Chinese: 陈星汉; pinyin: Chén Xīnghàn; born October 8, 1981), known professionally as Jenova Chen, is a Chinese video game designer. He is the designer of the award-winning games Cloud, Flow, Flower, and Journey, and is co-founder of Thatgamecompany.
Chen is from Shanghai, where he earned a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in digital art and design. He moved to the United States, where he earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division. While there he created Cloud and Flow, and met fellow student Kellee Santiago. After a brief period at Maxis working on Spore, he founded Thatgamecompany with Santiago and became the company's creative director. The company signed a three-game deal with Sony Computer Entertainment, and has sold Flow, Flower, and Journey through the PlayStation Network.
As Chen was born in a culture other than the culture he lives in, he tries to make games that appeal universally to all people. His goal with his games is to help video games mature as a medium by making games that inspire emotional responses in the player that other games are lacking. Although he and Thatgamecompany can and have made more traditional games, he does not plan on commercially developing any of them, as he does not think that it fits with their goals as an independent video game developer.
Xinghan Chen (Chinese: 陈星汉; pinyin: Chén Xīnghàn; born October 8, 1981), known professionally as JenovaChen, is a Chinese video game designer. He is the...
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development company founded by University of Southern California students JenovaChen and Kellee Santiago in 2006. The company was a developer for Sony Computer...
Campbell's work affected his approach to storytelling and film-making. JenovaChen, lead designer at thatgamecompany, also cites The Hero's Journey as the...
design and produced Cloud, a game developed by JenovaChen and a student team. Its success sparked her and Chen to found thatgamecompany upon graduating, and...
Wintory has composed over three hundred musical scores. Wintory met JenovaChen while both attended the University of Southern California (USC). After...
earned by eating other creatures and are used to evolve. flOw (2006, JenovaChen) – a Flash game similar to E.V.O. L.O.L.: Lack of Love (2000, ASCII Entertainment)...
(6 December 2009). "Cloning or theft? Ars explores game design with JenovaChen". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 20...
Interactive Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. JenovaChen also served as the company's advisor. The company aimed to publish games...
similar assets and gameplay with little additional innovation; developer JenovaChen compared the nature of these clones similar to plagiarism in which there...
through. Dallas credits suggestions made by Dino Patti of Playdead and JenovaChen of thatgamecompany, following a playtest of the game, of inspiring the...
Presented the virtual concert trailer for Sky: Children of the Light JenovaChen Troy Baker Presented the award for Best Action Game Ashley Johnson Pedro...
the game Cloud which was developed by JenovaChen and a team of students. After graduating, Santiago and Chen founded Thatgamecompany, and Santiago took...
and October. They were judged by a panel of industry members including JenovaChen, Todd Howard, Hideo Kojima, and Vince Zampella. Winners are listed first...
ACM SIGGRAPH. Retrieved 2014-03-24. Chen, Jenova. Chat notes about Video Game, Art and Digital Medium. Jenova's Blog. 7 May 2008. Young, Nora & Misener...
(December 9, 2009). "Cloning or Theft? Ars Explores Game Design with JenovaChen". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on December 13, 2009. Retrieved...
Asher Vollmer, Elan Lee, Jane McGonigal, Tim LeTourneau, Chaim Gingold, JenovaChen, Richard Lemarchand, Frank Lantz, Adrian Hon, Stone Librande, Warren...
the main game. The basic gameplay is similar to Flow. Flow designer JenovaChen attributed Will Wright's first demo of Spore as inspiration.[citation...
including Jack Thompson, Hal Halpin, Doug Lowenstein, Jason Della Rocca, JenovaChen, Brian Flemming, and the hosts of Free Talk Live. It was screened at...
Ledonne, Jack Thompson, Hal Halpin, Doug Lowenstein, Jason Della Rocca, JenovaChen, Ian Bogost, Tracy Fullerton, Brian Flemming, and the hosts of Free Talk...
director Anita Caspary (1943) – former nun, founder of lay organization JenovaChen (M.F.A.) – video game designer, co-founder thatgamecompany Salvatore...
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