Dissertations – Department of Design ZHdK

Diploma archive

«Idle Sunbathing» deals with low-interaction games.

Idle Sunbathing

Tuuls

Paméla Schmidinger & Tamara Trabucco

[I] doesn’t exist

Luzia Hüttenmoser & Anna-Lena Pontet

Aktion Weile

All-Round Giant Deer

This master thesis supports the development of innovative game concepts.

Metamechanic Toolkit

Leander Schneeberger

YUNO

Sta-Tisch?

Care Studio Zeta

Shaping Boredom

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

For Ida

Vanessa Kesselring

Stranded on a desert island with the character Bosun.

Ol' Boy Bosun

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

Striving

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

Silverwood Legends

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

Homines

Dominic Platten

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

Skaraphus

Alivia

Christian Barteld & Camila Gutierrez-Meade

Walden

Cinzia Maria Michetti

Overload

Viviana Castellanos Osorio

"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

Revel in childhood memories with «Plank Builders».

Planks Builders

Mathis Ebner & Jonas Müller

The Formatorial Project

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

Playing the Open Source Game

Julian Schönbächler

Future Commensality

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

Shape of Chance

SOMN

Yeast Buddy

Redesign Dementia