The sign is real. I'm still building. That's the whole plan.
Who
BandiI'm Bandi. Bandi Li on paper, 李伴笛 in Chinese, 리반디 at home. Bandi means firefly in Korean. I'm a senior at the International School of Beijing, class of 2027.
Why games
BandiBecause it's fun. And because the games I wanted to play didn't exist, so I had to make them.
BandiSomewhere along the way I noticed that's also how I understand things. If I can turn something into rules, I've understood it. If I can make someone else play by those rules, I've said it.
What I work with
engines Unity · Unreal Engine 5 · Ren'Py · Snap!
code C# · Python
design game & systems design · level design · tabletop design · prototyping & design docs
BandiOff screen I play badminton, which I've kept up for three years, and kendo, which is also a game of rules. My parents suggested kendo for years and I said no; I started about a year ago and now I don't skip it.
BandiI started with calligraphy in primary school, in 2018, brush and ink, and went on to ink painting: three or four years of it, up to Grade 10. That's where the black lines on this site come from.
BandiThe red stamp under my name on the paintings is my seal, and I carved it myself. Instead of a character, I cut a Minecraft block into it: my favourite game, pressed onto the oldest kind of picture I know how to make. Carving a seal and skinning a stick turn out to be the same job. A knife, one layer at a time.
乙巳 伴笛畫 — signed, then stamped with a block
BandiLately I shelve books at the public library near home, and I like it more than I expected. Sorting things into their places turns out to be the thing I do everywhere.
