Dissertations – Department of Design ZHdK

Diploma archive

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

Silverwood Legends

Shaping Boredom

"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

YUNO

All-Round Giant Deer

[I] doesn’t exist

Luzia Hüttenmoser & Anna-Lena Pontet

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

Shape of Chance

«Idle Sunbathing» deals with low-interaction games.

Idle Sunbathing

Overload

Viviana Castellanos Osorio

Walden

Cinzia Maria Michetti

Alivia

Christian Barteld & Camila Gutierrez-Meade

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

Homines

Dominic Platten

Aktion Weile

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

For Ida

Vanessa Kesselring

The Formatorial Project

SOMN

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

Skaraphus

Striving

Yeast Buddy

Redesign Dementia

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

Playing the Open Source Game

Julian Schönbächler

Future Commensality

Sta-Tisch?

This master thesis supports the development of innovative game concepts.

Metamechanic Toolkit

Leander Schneeberger

Tuuls

Paméla Schmidinger & Tamara Trabucco

Stranded on a desert island with the character Bosun.

Ol' Boy Bosun

Revel in childhood memories with «Plank Builders».

Planks Builders

Mathis Ebner & Jonas Müller

Care Studio Zeta

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

Flink

Roman Engler & Zoë Urand