Newbie at CUHKSZ: A Voxel Art Puzzle Game for Campus Orientation

Hao Wu, Jinghan Sun, Haihan Duan, Wei Cai

Abstract: Due to the COVID-19 epidemic prevention policy, many university freshmen are unable to visit their schools in person. As a remote campus orientation tool, we propose Newbie at CUHKSZ, a voxel art puzzle game, for the incoming students to explore The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ) in an interactive way. We crowd-sourced the digital model of the CUHKSZ campus and created Non-Player Characters (NPCs) as digital twins of our staffs in the virtual campus. Furthermore, we designed school traditions related puzzle tasks to lead an interactive campus tour and deliver humanistic values. The design of Newbie at CUHKSZ sheds light on a new way to engage the incoming students in a remote campus orientation event.