Jeeyon Shim

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Jeeyon Shim is a second generation Korean American game designer and writer. A former outdoor educator, her body of work is strongly influenced by themes of connection to the natural world.[1] Playing Shim's narrative games often involves creating a keepsake artifact.[2]

Career

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Shim was made redundant from her outdoor education job and pivoted to "full-time game design in 2020".[2] She is the co-designer on Field Guide To Memory (2021) with Shing Yin Khor.[3] Field Guide to Memory centers on the creation of a journal through guided writing prompts with occasional live action mechanics, such as going on a hike in real life to echo a fictional hike experienced by the characters in-game.[4] Field Guide to Memory won the 2021 IndieCade Award in the best live game category.[3][5] The Verge highlighted that "the pair defined keepsake games as both a genre and a useful shorthand for their work".[2] Academics Greg Loring-Albright and Wes Willison highlighted that while Shim and Khor coined the term "keepsake game" in 2021, the collaborators have slightly different definitions with Shim "more interested in thematic concerns [...]. If Khor delimits how a keepsake game's keepsake object comes to be, Shim explores what that object is meant to do or mean. [...] Khor approaches the material keepsake object and works backwards through its procedural creation to its co-authors: the game designer and the player. Shim starts with the process and its intended thematics and situates the keepsake object as a result of those processes".[6]

Shim is the creator of other keepsake games such as The Shape of Shadows,[7] The Last Will and Testament of Gideon Blythe,[8] and The Snow Queen[9] which were all funded via crowdfunding campaigns.[2][9] The Snow Queen is a game for two players, loosely based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. It adapts the game mechanics of Chess.[9] Shim was awarded the inaugural Diana Jones Emerging Designer Award in 2021.[10][11] In 2022, Shim was nominated for "Designer of the Year" in the inaugural Tabletop Awards by Dicebreaker at PAX Unplugged.[12][13]

Linda Codega, for Io9 in 2022, stated that they are an Shim has published on Itch.io which are[14] In 2023, Codega included Shim on a list of "people to follow" in the "Year Ahead in Tabletop Roleplaying Games" – they described Shim as "an innovative and fresh voice in tabletop design" pursing sustainable and independent game design with "nearly a dozen games [released] over the past three years".[15]

Personal life

Shim was born in the United States and currently lives in Northern California, where she's spent the majority of her life.[10]

Shim developed Long COVID in 2022.[16][17]

Works

Title Credits Date Notes Ref.
Pin Feathers/Cloud Studies Designer 2018 Included on SFWA's 2018 Nebula Awards reading list [18][19]
Wait For Me Co-designer 2020 Funded via Kickstarter campaign in 2020 [2]
The Thaw Designer 2021 Included in the Hibernation Games anthology; funded via Kickstarter in 2021 [20]
Sea of Legends: Rise of the Ancients Adventure writer 2021 Board game expansion published by Guildhall Studios; funded via Kickstarter in 2020 [21][22]
Field Guide to Memory Co-designer 2021 Funded via Kickstarter campaign in 2021 [4]
The Shape of Shadows Designer 2021 Funded via Kickstarter campaign in 2021 [7]
The Last Will and Testament of Gideon Blythe Designer 2023 Forthcoming game funded via Kickstarter campaign in 2021 [8]
The Snow Queen Designer 2023 Forthcoming game funded via independent crowdfunding campaign in 2022 [9]
The Longest Rest Designer 2024 Forthcoming game funded via Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2022 [23]

References

  1. ↑ Han, Karen (March 20, 2022). "Jeeyon Shim's "Keepsake Games" Combine Crafting and Storytelling". Slate Magazine. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Ong, Alexis (June 28, 2022). "Jeeyon Shim carved a new path in crowdfunding for her keepsake games". The Verge. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Carpenter, Nicole (March 26, 2021). "Field Guide to Memory is a 'keepsake' game written inside your own personal journal". Polygon. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Podcast #135 - The Solo RPG Special". Shut Up & Sit Down. March 19, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  5. ↑ "2021 AWARD WINNING GAMES". IndieCade. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  6. ↑ Loring-Albright, Greg; Willison, Wes (February 16, 2023). "Materiality of Keepsake Games". Generation Analog 2021. Carnegie Mellon University: ETC Press: 55–66. doi:10.57862/FZB0-QG05.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Carter, Chase (April 29, 2021). "Keepsake game The Shape of Shadows transforms a day planner into a magician's grimoire". Dicebreaker. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Carter, Chase (March 3, 2021). "The Last Will and Testament of Gideon Blythe". Dicebreaker. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Carpenter, Nicole (February 15, 2022). "Award-winning designer Jeeyon Shim's next project blends chess and role-playing". Polygon. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Carter, Chase (August 4, 2021). "Jeeyon Shim wins 2021 Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program". Dicebreaker. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  11. ↑ Hall, Charlie (October 8, 2021). "One of tabletop gaming's most prestigious awards has gone missing". Polygon. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  12. ↑ Jarvis, Matt (December 2, 2022). "Tabletop Awards 2022 winners: The year's best board game, RPG, designers and publishers revealed!". Dicebreaker. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  13. ↑ Long, Michael (December 6, 2022). "Winners Of The Inaugural Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards Revealed". Tribality. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  14. ↑ Codega, Linda (October 18, 2022). "The Gaming Shelf Enters the Tavern". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  15. ↑ Codega, Linda (January 4, 2023). "The Year Ahead in Tabletop Roleplaying Games". Gizmodo. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  16. ↑ Shim, Jeeyon [@jeeyonshim] (January 19, 2023). "I talk about my illness frankly because I want to show people that several things are true at once: covid disabled me, and I still love my life and enjoy what I've managed to retain of it. That I love and treasure my communities; and, that I really, really need them to step up" (Tweet). Retrieved March 21, 2023 – via Twitter.
  17. ↑ Shim, Jeeyon (2022). "Jeeyon's Post-COVID Syndrome Fund". GoFundMe. Retrieved March 21, 2023. "In May, I contracted COVID-19 after managing to successfully mitigate my risk and avoiding the virus for over two years. Now, I have a post-COVID syndrome diagnosis (also known as 'long covid')"
  18. ↑ Carter, Chase (January 11, 2022). "Single-player RPG bundle Solo but Not Alone once again fundraising for suicide prevention". Dicebreaker. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
  19. ↑ "Pin Feathers // Cloud Studies". SFWA Discussion Forums. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  20. ↑ Carter, Chase (February 3, 2021). "Hibernation Games Bundle". Dicebreaker. Retrieved March 22, 2023.
  21. ↑ Guildhall Studios [@GuildhallStudio] (May 22, 2020). "Today we're featuring @jeeyonshim for our Sea of Legends Writer Spotlight! Jeeyon works on a tom of smaller, weirder games on her Patreon, which is her main source of income! She joined our team as an adventure writer! [IMAGE] [Thread]" (Tweet). Retrieved March 21, 2023 – via Twitter.
  22. ↑ Takahashi, Dean (July 27, 2021). "Game Devs of Color Expo remains all-virtual when it kicks off September". VentureBeat. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
  23. ↑ Carter, Chase (October 20, 2022). "The Longest Rest is a horror RPG that warps fantasy taverns into monstrous haunted houses". Dicebreaker. Retrieved March 21, 2023.

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