Dissertations – Department of Design ZHdK

Diploma archive

Redesign Dementia

The Formatorial Project

"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

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

Skaraphus

Walden

Cinzia Maria Michetti

Sta-Tisch?

All-Round Giant Deer

Care Studio Zeta

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

Shape of Chance

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

Homines

Dominic Platten

Yeast Buddy

Future Commensality

SOMN

This master thesis supports the development of innovative game concepts.

Metamechanic Toolkit

Leander Schneeberger

Stranded on a desert island with the character Bosun.

Ol' Boy Bosun

[I] doesn’t exist

Luzia Hüttenmoser & Anna-Lena Pontet

YUNO

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

For Ida

Vanessa Kesselring

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

Playing the Open Source Game

Julian Schönbächler

Overload

Viviana Castellanos Osorio

Revel in childhood memories with «Plank Builders».

Planks Builders

Mathis Ebner & Jonas Müller

Shaping Boredom

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

Aktion Weile

«Idle Sunbathing» deals with low-interaction games.

Idle Sunbathing

Tuuls

Paméla Schmidinger & Tamara Trabucco

Alivia

Christian Barteld & Camila Gutierrez-Meade

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

Silverwood Legends

Striving