Chinese artist creates retro Nintendo Gameboy game to remember late grandmother Video games can be designed to express deeply personal art, Zhou Yichen says.
When Chinese artist Zhou Yichen saw his grandmother’s health deteriorate in July, he sought to memorialise her in an unusual way – by creating a Nintendo video game with her portrayed as a character in it.
In the game, players can interact with the titular character designed after Yichen’s grandma, who became a wheelchair user later in life following an accident.
The 31-year-old from central China’s Hubei province says he has been experimenting with designing video games as a deeply personal artistic expression since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
My grandma and grandpa took care of me until I was three years old,” he says.
