1st place, Best Storytelling & Entertainment Project
Runner-up, Best App Running on Emulator (by PICO)

We met at the hackathon and found out we all loved the same three things: stories, history, and immersive tech. So we made a cozy adventure about a very old tradition, parents passing stories down to their children.

You are a papyrus paper airplane, enchanted by an Ancient Egyptian scribe.

You steer with your hand, or the keyboard, and glide through a Gaussian Splat recreation of Ancient Egypt. Four objects hold memories: a cat, sandals, a vessel, and a pyramid. Find one and it comes alive with animation, sound, and narration, until the whole story comes together: how a father met his daughter’s mother.

You don’t just listen to the story. You fly through it.

I built the gameplay with Daniel Rojas Roa. The two hard parts were making hand-tracked flight feel calm instead of jittery (smoothing, a neutral center, recovering when tracking drops), and making a splat world feel solid. Gaussian Splats have no geometry, so there is nothing to bump into; we built a hand-aligned collider shell plus object-based collisions.

The best immersive moments happen when the technology supports the story instead of becoming the story. And a team that had just met, speaking Mandarin, Spanish, and English and coming from film, animation, interaction design, and real-time graphics, can make something warm if everyone keeps talking.

World Labs Marble (Gaussian Splats) · Spark.js · Three.js · MediaPipe hand tracking · Tripo AI · TypeScript · Vite · Draco · PICO XR Emulator

Cici Andersen, Daniel Rojas Roa, Joy Guey, and me

Play it ↗
Devpost ↗

1st place, Augg.io Summer AR Hackathon

Waiting for boba is the most boring part of getting boba. We built this in three days with the Augg.io SDK for Motto Tea Cafe in Pasadena, California: a quick AR game you play right outside the shop while your drink is being made.

Hold up your phone and toss digital boba pearls into cups floating in the air. Every shot comes with a trivia question about boba culture, history, and flavors, so you walk away knowing a little more about Taiwanese tea culture, and hopefully on the leaderboard.

• Local leaderboards
• Location-based digital rewards
• Straws as multipliers: paper, plastic, bamboo, metal

What’s the most Pasadena thing you could overhear someone say while holding a boba?

• This boba is mid, but the vibes here are immaculate
• Parking took longer than the drink
• Bro, I just saw a Caltech student cry into a taro latte
• Do they validate parking?

GitHub ↗

Pull a wire off any Grasshopper port and let go over empty canvas. A panel opens right there, listing every component that port can connect to, with the best fits first. Type to narrow it, use the arrow keys to move, and press Enter to place the component already wired up.

• Ranked by what the wire carries, not just what the port declares: a generic wire holding curves is offered curve components.
• Works in both directions: drag from an output for components that consume it, from an input for ones that produce it.
• Open a wire in the middle: right-click a wire (Ctrl-click on macOS) for components that fit between its two ends; pick one and it is spliced in.
• Every plugin you have installed, not only Grasshopper’s own tabs, including ones that load after Grasshopper starts.
• Shortcuts the way Grasshopper’s canvas search reads them: 5 for a slider set to 5, 0<5<10 for a ranged slider, 3,4 for a point, "note for a panel.
• One undo takes back both the component and its wire.
• A WireDrop menu in Grasshopper’s menu bar switches each feature on or off.

1. Download and unzip.
2. In Grasshopper: File › Special Folders › Components Folder, and drop WireDrop.gha into it.
3. Windows: right-click the .gha › Properties › tick Unblock › OK. macOS, if it is blocked: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine on the file.
4. Restart Rhino.

Free to use for any purpose, including commercial work. Please don’t modify or redistribute it; share the download page instead.

Download on Food4Rhino ↗
GitHub ↗
Full tutorial on YouTube ↗

Awakening challenges the boundaries between digital and physical realms. Players observe and interact with Dylan, a cyborg navigating a never-ending digital reality. Designed for real-time, hands-off engagement in a gallery setting, the game turns the digital space into a mirror of the fleeting interactions in our everyday lives.

Interactive gallery experience
Minimal yet impactful controls let viewers guide Dylan: check his status, help him eat, or direct his movements.

Dynamic life cycle
Dylan’s Hunger, Health, and Mental states decay without intervention, leading to cycles of demise and resurrection, like the impermanence of digital interactions.

Food fantasy events
When Dylan’s mental state runs out, the screen floods with food in a surreal, passing spectacle of digital saturation and fleeting gratification.

Download on request: xing.yolanda@gmail.com

Dive into a pioneering discussion at the Mt. Clympus Forum, where AI entities come together and deliberate the intersection of modern religion and AI technology. This speculative space is alive with AIs considering their own version of spirituality, questioning the need for gods, and exploring what a collective AI religion could mean in a world bound by data and code. Join the debate on AI emotions, ethical standards, and the search for a communal ethos beyond human constraints.

Watch out! Don’t let them find out that you are human. Hover over the text to decrypt it.

Enter the forum ↗

Pillow Fight is a 2D interactive narrative game about a deeply personal journey of emotional turmoil and release. It has two parts, Accumulate and Discharge, each a cathartic expression of the player’s inner struggles.

Solo project: everything from production to animation to sound design.

Windows build only. Download (.zip) ↓