"Welcome to the Assessment System 2018, are you qualified to be Level 3 Chinese? "
“Welcome to the Assessment System” is a Twine game that sarcastically expresses my identity exploration as a Chinese in nowadays political environment . It was adapted from the Tracery project “Cautionary Tales for Chinese”, a poetry project I created early this semester.
The Twine game uses the content generated by Tracery from “Cautionary Tales for Chinese” as its base script, and develops the script into an experience of assessing the participant’s qualification to become “Certificate Level-3 Chinese Citizen” by giving the participant three questions based on the script.
Developed from a simple "cautionary tales”, this reading test-format game reinforces the feeling of political ideology propaganda by forcing the participants to pay close attention to, repeatedly read through all the content given and understanding those inner, unspoken logics and declarations.
This text-heavy project has a pretty straightforward question-answer-question-answer structure: The page with the base script is followed by three questions, each has options standing for different scores, which will add on and give you a final score at the end of the game.
The three questions are created following the classic SAT/GRE reading test format. It also gets inspiration from my memory about answering Chinese reading questions back in high school.
And the final score you get at the end of the game assesses how “ideal” you are now as a Chinese citizen, whether you move on to being an advanced “Level 4-pending Chinese”, stay on getting your Level 3 certificate or go back to being a Level 2 pending status Chinese.
The Twine game structure:
Some screenshots of the game:
