Heiwa - Interactive Story

HIT

Student

ROLE

UX/UI Designer

Platform

Website

YEAR

2025

Prototype

Overview

“Heiwa” (meaning peace) is an interactive, gamified story that follows Oda Nobunaga’s journey during Japan’s unification. Through mini-games and narrative tasks, users learn key events and strategies from the Sengoku era.

Goal

To modernize the way historical content is consumed by transforming a digital experience in which you can take part of.

Challenges

Presenting complex history in a digestible, engaging format.

Creating games that are lightweight yet meaningful.
Creating a UI aesthetic inspired by ancient Japan, reimagined for today's era.

Design Research

I gathered elements of Japanese culture and repurposed them for the project using family crests as in-game currency, origami-inspired gradients to shape the overall aesthetic, and cards to represent collectible strategic tools.

Most educational games online teach kids vocabulary, letters and numbers.
I offer a different approach to help them gain skills involving maturity and life lessons.

Concept breakdown

The concept began with a divided map of Japan, reflecting how each leader unified different regions. Players follow each leader’s journey, and as they complete each one, the map gradually comes together to symbolize unification.

Most educational games online teach kids vocabulary, letters and numbers.
I offer a different approach to help them gain skills involving maturity and life lessons.

The unifiers

How they are depicted in ancient scrolls Vs my in-game UI version.

Most educational games online teach kids vocabulary, letters and numbers.
I offer a different approach to help them gain skills involving maturity and life lessons.

Features

I extracted three pivotal strategy points from each leader and turned them into story driven mini games. Completing each one earns you a strategy card

Stage 1: connect allies in order to form a circle tactic against the enemy in the middle.