Dissertations – Department of Design ZHdK

Diploma archive

Flink

Roman Engler & Zoë Urand

Netflix vs. Games. «Down the Road» looks at the potential of streaming models for games.

Narrative Indie Game Design for the Generation Netflix

Johannes Köberle

Absurd and shrill - the single-player physics game «Skaraphus».

Skaraphus

The Formatorial Project

Future Commensality

Shaping Boredom

All-Round Giant Deer

The educational game «Homines» enables a journey of discovery through the body.

Homines

Dominic Platten

"Memories of Salt & Sorrow" deals with the experience of loss. Netflix vs. Games. «Down the Road» looks at the potential of streaming models for games.

Memories of Salt & Sorrow

Severin Brodmann

Redesign Dementia

Yeast Buddy

SOMN

Revel in childhood memories with «Plank Builders».

Planks Builders

Mathis Ebner & Jonas Müller

Overload

Viviana Castellanos Osorio

Care Studio Zeta

«Shape of Chance» plays with the expectation of modular action roguelite.

Shape of Chance

Walden

Cinzia Maria Michetti

«For Ida» - an interactive fairy tale for children and young-at-heart adults.

For Ida

Vanessa Kesselring

Aktion Weile

Stranded on a desert island with the character Bosun.

Ol' Boy Bosun

Striving

[I] doesn’t exist

Luzia Hüttenmoser & Anna-Lena Pontet

YUNO

This master thesis supports the development of innovative game concepts.

Metamechanic Toolkit

Leander Schneeberger

Alivia

Christian Barteld & Camila Gutierrez-Meade

Tuuls

Paméla Schmidinger & Tamara Trabucco

«Idle Sunbathing» deals with low-interaction games.

Idle Sunbathing

In «Silverwood Legends», the story is procedurally driven.

Silverwood Legends

This development tool is primarily aimed at designers with experience in the 3D field.

Playing the Open Source Game

Julian Schönbächler

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