Traveler is a 2D side-scrolling platformer about maneuvering a team of characters with various abilities, targeting releasing on iOS of iPhones. Players use the smartphone swipe and single-touch gestures to guide the traveling team through conquering obstacles, avoiding traps or jumping over rifts. Reaction-challenging as it is, the game embraces exotic landscapes and encourages gamers to take an open-minded attitude towards divergent cultures. 

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Five students from School of Animation and Digital Arts of Communication University of China contributed in this 2013 summer-semester group project. Tianze Yang (杨天泽) was the art director, the concept artist and the illustrator who created the game art assets. Yiming Ren (任一鸣) designed and implemented the user interface with intuitive flow as well as visual pleasure. Shen Gao (高深) drew by hand those amazing illustrations in this touching trailer available here on Youku. Chenyang Yan (严晨阳) made the frame-by-frame character animation through hand-drawing. I as the lead programmer coded the game logic using the Cocos2d-X mobile game framework in C++.