Yanhe Wang

1969 (2019.12-?)

(Officially selected by Bitsummit & Tokyo Sandbox 2020)

A game aiming at making players experience the hardship of a Chinese young mother’s life during the revolution. As food supply was in serious shortage in China, food coupons had been issued based on monthly rations since 1955 and were phased out from people's daily lives in the 1980s. In April 1969, during the Chinese Great Cultural Revolution, 24-year-old Li, a new mother of a one-year-old girl, was promoted from a food station to a local food bureau as an administrator of food coupon, to replace her predecessor. Meanwhile, she was pregnant and going to give birth to her second child soon. Her husband, the vice secretary of a construction company, had had no income since the beginning of the revolution since the workers all went on strike. Thus, Li had to do all the chores, take care of the baby, while working at the food bureau to pay all the bills.

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Showcase video after 4 weeks of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdpmzPMCzU8&t=10s&ab_channel=RandomBOAR