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Wyn: /* Mechanics of the game */

2026-06-23T11:07:41Z

Mechanics of the game

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	A text adventure game with the thesis as its backbone and sound as its main thread.		A text adventure game with the thesis as its backbone and sound as its main thread.

	The story begins with a daughter coming home to ~~fix~~ her mother's ~~broken~~ chanting machine. While repairing it, she becomes familiar again with the environment she grew up in, and through material clues she pieces together a story of the family, the city, and the machine.		The story begins with a daughter coming home to repair herslef, at the same time, her mother's chanting machine broken. While repairing it, she becomes familiar again with the environment she grew up in, and through material clues she pieces together a story of the family, the city, and the machine.

			<br>https://yinyu.me/chanting_machine/game.html

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Wyn: /* Web */

2026-06-23T11:06:45Z

Web

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	==Web==		==Web==

	The game also runs at yinyu.me/chanting_machine ~~— a~~ standalone site that anyone can enter from anywhere. It's embedded inside a circular nianfoji shell as the hero visual, so the same object framing carries over into the browser. Played with cursor and keyboard, up, down, enter.		The game also runs at https://yinyu.me/chanting_machine/game.html

			My standalone site that anyone can enter from anywhere. It's embedded inside a circular nianfoji shell as the hero visual, so the same object framing carries over into the browser. Played with cursor and keyboard, up, down, enter.

	[[File:Webpage of the chanting machine.gif\|frameless\|left]]		[[File:Webpage of the chanting machine.gif\|frameless\|left]]

Wyn: /* Web */

2026-06-23T11:03:08Z

Web

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	==Web==		==Web==

	On the ~~website~~, the ~~game is played~~ with cursor and keyboard ~~— only simple~~ up / down ~~/ confirm. The interaction is lighter than the physical machine~~, ~~but the spatial and narrative structure stays the same~~.		The game also runs at yinyu.me/chanting_machine — a standalone site that anyone can enter from anywhere. It's embedded inside a circular nianfoji shell as the hero visual, so the same object framing carries over into the browser. Played with cursor and keyboard, up, down, enter.

	[[File:Webpage of the chanting machine.gif\|frameless\|left]]		[[File:Webpage of the chanting machine.gif\|frameless\|left]]






	==Performance==		==Performance==

	The recitation is performed once, live, inside the same altar space during the graduation show — I speak over and around the solar-powered machine while it runs its replaced loop.		I am planning to do performance. The recitation is performed once, live, inside the same altar space during the graduation show — I speak over and around the solar-powered machine while it runs its replaced loop.

	A monologue would let me speak ''about'' the machine, keeping me outside it as commentator. A chorus would dissolve the asymmetry between human and machine. The two-voice form keeps that asymmetry visible: the machine carries on without pausing; I speak over and around it — never replacing it, never merging with it.		A monologue would let me speak ''about'' the machine, keeping me outside it as commentator. A chorus would dissolve the asymmetry between human and machine. The two-voice form keeps that asymmetry visible: the machine carries on without pausing; I speak over and around it — never replacing it, never merging with it.
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	==Publication==		==Publication==

	AAlongside the installation, the web archive, and the performance, the project also exists as a box set of three independent booklets: ''Bladder Runner'' (field diary), ''Side Notes of Buddha Machine(s)'' (internet archive and scavenging), and ''The Chanting Machine'' (the thesis).		AAlongside the installation, the web archive, and the performance, the project also exists as a box set of three independent booklets: ''Bladder Runner'' (field diary), ''Side Notes of Buddha Machine(s)'' (internet archive and scavenging), and ''The Chanting Machine'' (the thesis). And the NFC chips will be sticks to the zine, once you touch it, the website shows up.

	A first prototype will be ready before graduation show.		A first prototype will be ready before graduation show.

Wyn: /* Mechanics of the game */

2026-06-23T10:54:59Z

Mechanics of the game

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	My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.		My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.



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	[[File:Cover of the game.jpg\|thumb\|left\|400x400px\|Main page of the game]]		[[File:Cover of the game.jpg\|thumb\|left\|400x400px\|Main page of the game]]

Wyn: /* What did I find */

2026-06-23T10:54:43Z

What did I find

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	My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.		My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.

Wyn: /* Why the nianfoji */

2026-06-23T10:54:35Z

Why the nianfoji

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	==Why the nianfoji==		==Why the nianfoji==
	[[File:Soldering.jpg\|thumb\|Soldering]]		[[File:Soldering.jpg\|thumb\|Soldering\|373x373px]]
	The nianfoji and I come from the same city. Shenzhen built itself for speed — and the same factories that produced the radios, DVD players, and cassette players of the 1990s also produced this object: an electronic chanting machine sold as a sacred product. My mother worked on one of those production lines in 1980s.		The nianfoji and I come from the same city. Shenzhen built itself for speed — and the same factories that produced the radios, DVD players, and cassette players of the 1990s also produced this object: an electronic chanting machine sold as a sacred product. My mother worked on one of those production lines in 1980s.

Wyn: /* What did I find */

2026-06-23T10:54:06Z

What did I find

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	My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.		My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.

Wyn: /* What did I find */

2026-06-23T10:53:58Z

What did I find

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	My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.		My project takes this meeting point as its working ground.

Wyn: /* What did I find */

2026-06-23T10:53:49Z

What did I find

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			==What did I find==
			[[File:Qinyuan production line.png\|thumb\|Women worker in the factory\|left]]

	~~==What did I find==~~		Two findings during the research changed the form of the final work.
	~~[[File:Qinyuan~~ production ~~line~~.~~png\|thumb\|Women worker in the factory\|left]]~~
			Pun Ngai's writing on women workers on Shenzhen production lines and the Stuart hall the encoding/decoding theory gave me frameworks.

	~~I started out treating the nianfoji as a religious commodity. Then, through fieldwork and Pun Ngai's writing on women workers on Shenzhen production lines,~~ I started to hear another layer: its spiritual and material ~~sides~~ both rest on women's labour that goes unnoticed.		I started to hear another layer in the machine's sound: its spiritual side and its material side both rest on women's labour that goes unnoticed.

	In the interviews with people, I saw that each of them was retranslating the machine through their own position. With every replacement, a new meaning appears, and the meaning before it disappears.		In the interviews with people, I saw that each of them was retranslating the machine through their own position. With every replacement, a new meaning appears, and the meaning before it disappears.

Wyn: /* Prototyping of it */

2026-06-23T10:46:19Z

Prototyping of it

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	The project moved through several material stages: from field notes written on the road, to physical mock-ups of the modified machine.		The project moved through several material stages: from field notes written on the road, to physical mock-ups of the modified machine.

	''Bladder Runner'' is a diary format that came out of the fieldwork trip back to China, where the text adventure story began.		''Bladder Runner'' is a diary format that came out of the fieldwork trip back to China, where the text adventure story began. I takes my house as the backstage of the project.

			''Side Notes of Buddha Machine(s)'' came out of a parallel internet archive and scavenging work — part of my Digital Scavenger practice. It pulls together the original buddha machine, factory's self-narration, buyer reviews, and aesthetic variations across decades.

	[[File:Bladder runner Booklet.gif\|center\|frameless\|600x600px]]		[[File:Bladder runner Booklet.gif\|center\|frameless\|600x600px]]