Weng Jiayang



Boiling the sea / 煮海

Fujian, China

Game

2025


Boiling the Sea / 煮海 | 2025 |  Game





故事发生在其海滨小镇温岭。渔夫李狗蛋在家族宗教冲突的夹缝中走向精神崩溃。在一尊观音像“泣血”后，他获得了看见“脏东西”的能力——亲人头顶的怪异幻象与潜伏的恶魔。李狗蛋坚信自己是“天选之子”，手持铁锤与头灯，开启了一场荒诞而暴力的“煮海”行动，试图以此净化世间一切不洁。

The Narrative Set in the coastal town of Wenling, this 2D click-to-decrypt game follows Li Goudan, a fisherman fracturing under the weight of familial and religious schisms. Following a hallucinatory event where a Guanyin statue weeps blood, Li gains the "sight" to perceive the grotesque illusions clinging to his kin. Convinced he is the "Chosen One," he wields a hammer and headlights, embarking on an absurd, violent crusade to "boil the sea"—a metaphor for purifying the world's perceived uncleanness.







Church and Buddhist temple in my hometown





本项目是对个人与历史创伤的一次挖掘。成长于一个多信仰家庭，我置身于基督教、佛教与红卫兵时代的幽灵相互碰撞的断裂带上。祖父从革命者到虔诚佛教徒的身份剧变，外祖父又作为一个虔诚的基督传教士，走遍了我的家乡，这些历史曾使我陷入深刻的意识形态迷失。

这种内在的张力仅仅是家庭的纷争，还是源于更深层的文化根源？我将目光从自身投向故乡温岭，试图解码历史与信仰是如何塑造——有时是粉碎——个体精神的。
This project is an excavation of personal and historical trauma. Raised in a multi-faith household, I stood at the fault line where Christianity, Buddhism, and the specters of the Red Guard era collided.

My family history is a map of contradictions: my paternal grandfather underwent a radical transformation from a revolutionary to a devout Buddhist, while my maternal grandfather, a committed Christian missionary, traversed every corner of our hometown to spread his gospel. These entangled histories plunged me into a state of profound ideological disorientation.

Was this internal tension merely a familial discord, or did it stem from deeper cultural roots? Shifting my gaze from the self to my hometown, Wenling, I attempt to decode how history and belief shape—and at times, shatter—the individual psyche.


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