Li Ke · Game Developer / World Wanderer

Middle East

Waking up on Mars

Wadi Rum, Jordan

At sunrise the red sandstone lights up grain by grain, the wind combing the sand into silk. No signal, no voices — only my own footprints and a whole desert of silence.

Middle East

Alone, up to the Monastery

Ad-Deir, Petra, Jordan

Eight hundred steps cut into the canyon wall, the bells of the Bedouins’ donkeys fading behind me. I climbed up alone, until the vast façade they call the Monastery appeared without warning — two thousand years of wind moving through the empty hall, leaving only the sound of light and sand.

Africa

Elephants beneath the snow peak

Amboseli, Kenya

In the rains the savanna turns a wet green; a herd drifts past with Kilimanjaro’s snow cap behind them. I didn’t press the shutter much that moment — I just watched.

Africa

To the roof of Africa

Kilimanjaro, Tanzania · 5,895 m

Five days, from rainforest up into glacier. The last night I crept up the scree by headlamp; at dawn I stood on Uhuru Peak — clouds below my feet, all of Africa behind me.

Tianshan, China

A hidden realm deep in the Tianshan

East Karajun, Ili, Xinjiang

The meadows lie like green velvet combed by the wind, ridge after ridge folding away into the heart of the Tianshan. Far below, the Kokesu River curls into eel-shaped bends; for tens of kilometres there is no one — only the shadows of clouds drifting slowly across the slopes.

Underwater

Giving myself to the blue

Red Sea · Dahab · OW / AOW

Twenty metres down, sound disappears — only breathing remains. Light slants in from the surface, fish drifting like leaves in wind. A very quiet kind of weightlessness.

Nine years building games

From mobile to console, from gameplay to core frameworks. A dual stack of Unreal 5 / C++ / GAS and Unity / C# / Lua — I can own core systems as a senior engineer on a large team, or carry a project single-handedly as its sole programmer, from standing up the engineering pipeline to delivering the combat framework end to end.