Loving Life

Loving Life is a short, autobiographical visual novel by Zhenghua Yang (Z), based on a near-fatal incident that changed his life. At 18, Z is a college student dealing with academic pressure, family expectations and his peers’ viewpoints. As his first semester ends, a 14-hour nosebleed leaves him with only hours to live.

Story

The game reflects on this episode through prose, dialogue and dreams. You follow Z between his present life, his memories of the past and an uncertain future as he faces the time between life and death.

Art and presentation

The artwork is hand-painted, including portraits of Z’s friends and surreal dreamscapes from his recovery. The remastered version includes font accessibility, audio and text-speed controls, along with remastered assets and visual and rendering corrections for modern monitors.