Jaewook Lee Studio is a research-driven creative practice developing experimental games, interactive artworks, and new forms of playable culture. The studio brings together art, technology, and critical inquiry through independent projects and collaborations.
Current Projects
Game Over: Spring
First-person interactive video game
Scheduled for release on Steam for PC in October 2027
Developed in Unreal Engine 5
Game Over: Spring is a time-travel video game that begins in the 1960s during the historical controversy over DDT, inspired by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. The player starts in a moment when political leaders must weigh scientific uncertainty, economic pressure, and environmental risk, then travels across multiple ecological pasts and futures shaped by choice. Centered on a recurring governor’s office and selected outdoor scenes, the game uses immersive environments to show how policy decisions reshape the world across time. Some futures become highly automated and machine-oriented, reflecting AI-driven efficiency and short-term economic gain, while others are transformed by nature and long-term ecological change. Through speculative worldbuilding and environmental storytelling, the project invites players to reflect on how competing values shape ecological realities.
Game Over: Planet
Play version 1.0 now on Fortnite
Island Code: 5870-4026-8180
A video game created with Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
Don’t Play to Win, Play to Reflect! Game Over: Planet is an experimental Fortnite project that transforms gameplay into a space for reflection. Set across four interconnected, nature-inspired gallery worlds, players wander through environments filled with organic forms, sculptural structures, and ritual performances that evoke both awe and fragility. Progress is achieved only by dismantling these creations—turning beauty into debris—as a narrator laments the player’s destructive actions. Blending play with guilt and contemplation, Game Over: Planet functions as both a game and a critical artwork, inviting reflection on the entanglement of creativity, violence, and ecological loss.
Studio Team
Jaewook Lee
Director
Hoang Thanh Trang
Design Research Assistant, AY 2025–26
NAU Intern-to-Scholar