Dissertations – Department of Design ZHdK

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Future Commensality

Alivia

Christian Barteld & Camila Gutierrez-Meade

"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

Striving

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

Playing the Open Source Game

Julian Schönbächler

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

Skaraphus

All-Round Giant Deer

YUNO

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

For Ida

Vanessa Kesselring

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

Homines

Dominic Platten

This master thesis supports the development of innovative game concepts.

Metamechanic Toolkit

Leander Schneeberger

Revel in childhood memories with «Plank Builders».

Planks Builders

Mathis Ebner & Jonas Müller

Flink

Roman Engler & Zoë Urand

Aktion Weile

Stranded on a desert island with the character Bosun.

Ol' Boy Bosun

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

Silverwood Legends

[I] doesn’t exist

Luzia Hüttenmoser & Anna-Lena Pontet

Redesign Dementia

Yeast Buddy

Walden

Cinzia Maria Michetti

SOMN

Care Studio Zeta

«Idle Sunbathing» deals with low-interaction games.

Idle Sunbathing

Shaping Boredom

Tuuls

Paméla Schmidinger & Tamara Trabucco

The Formatorial Project

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

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

Shape of Chance

Overload

Viviana Castellanos Osorio