Dissertations – Department of Design ZHdK

Diploma archive

Tuuls

Paméla Schmidinger & Tamara Trabucco

Overload

Viviana Castellanos Osorio

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

Flink

Roman Engler & Zoë Urand

This master thesis supports the development of innovative game concepts.

Metamechanic Toolkit

Leander Schneeberger

[I] doesn’t exist

Luzia Hüttenmoser & Anna-Lena Pontet

The Formatorial Project

Sta-Tisch?

Striving

YUNO

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

Homines

Dominic Platten

Care Studio Zeta

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

For Ida

Vanessa Kesselring

All-Round Giant Deer

Future Commensality

Redesign Dementia

Shaping Boredom

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

Revel in childhood memories with «Plank Builders».

Planks Builders

Mathis Ebner & Jonas Müller

SOMN

Aktion Weile

Stranded on a desert island with the character Bosun.

Ol' Boy Bosun

Yeast Buddy

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

Skaraphus

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

Shape of Chance

Walden

Cinzia Maria Michetti

Alivia

Christian Barteld & Camila Gutierrez-Meade

«Idle Sunbathing» deals with low-interaction games.

Idle Sunbathing

"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