Olivia Yin

Game Designer // CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST
 
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Hello, this is Olivia Yin!

Game Designer @ Blizzard 
//Creative Technologist //XR Developer
Game Designer dedicated to crafting immersive environments, alternative control games, and multi-sensory storytelling.

Immersive Experiences

Independent Creator // Multi-sensory VR
BAFTA Student Awards Winner SXSW Innovation Awards Finalist

A multisensory VR experience exploring concepts of home and autobiographical memory through custom scent-releasing interaction.

VR Experience
NYU TISCH GSO GRANT WINNER

Enter the comics created by the protagonist who only has 1 year remaining in this world.

Detour Bus

2021
Game Designer & 3D Artist // Casual VR Game
BAFTA Longlist Oculus Launchpad

A comedic, accessible VR road-trip game built around a dynamic, physics-based highway construction mechanic.

Technical Designer // Co-op VR Experience
NYU ITP Project CO-OP VR GAME

A two-player collaborative game mapping virtual reality cooperative mechanics onto physical sensory constraints. Rebuild the friendship cross over different time, virtual and physical space.

Come to Me

2021
Multisensory VR Experience
MULTISENSORY VR

Come to Me is a multi-sensory VR game where you play as a comet and build relationships with the four planets you encounter in orbit.

Alt.Ctrl Games

Alt.Ctrl Co-op Game
GDC ALT.CTRL FINALIST 2025

An innovative alternative control cooperative game featured as a finalist at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) Alt.Ctrl exhibit.

Spotlight

2023
Alt.Ctrl Platformer Game
ALT.CTRL DESIGN

A uniquely controlled platformer game exploring light-based level traversal and atmospheric puzzle solving.

AR Effects