Meet in Rain: A Serious Game to Help the Better Appreciation of Chinese Poems

Abstract

Meet in Rain is a serious game on Chinese poetry. While invoking various events, players must complete given tasks, which help them better appreciate the poems, by exploring imaginary sceneries that depict Chinese poems. Its visual design also mimics Chinese paintings in the era when the poems were created. As only a few serious games exist for Chinese poetry and they mostly focus on knowledge acquisition, our work provides a rare design exemplar of a serious game that is designed with the intention to foster aesthetic appreciation for a cultural subject.