Zitao YE is a game designer, writer, translator, works at Tencent NExT Studios for creative game incubation in Shanghai, producer of "Gameplus+" project and "Gameplus" cross-border game research and creation workshop, manager of independent media lab "Sunset Sway", host of its podcast and its translation/curation project about video game called "sunset project" (xpaidia.
He is actively promoting the cross-border connection, clarification and creative activities between video games and humanities, art and technology ; He is currently developing an "interface research creation" methodology for game studies research, creation and ontological thinking to address the current cultural dilemma of video games. He is also the author of independent experimental game works such as "Make a Poem"(A literature machine that produced 100k poems), "Sword Zen" and "The Shape of Time" (IGF 2022 Nuovo Award Honorable Mentions, GDC EGW 2022, Indiecade 2022 Nominee) etc.