Some of the projects done at ZHdK, Zurich during my exchange semester from Feb to June 2015.

1. Nambirajan V
Semester 4 Jury

2. Details
Duration Feb 16, 2015 to June 5, 2015
Semester Semester 1
Department Game Design
University Zurich University of the Arts
Faculty Rene Bauer and Mela Kocher

3. International and Exchange students at ZHdK

4. Intencity Workshop

5. Flip-a-Trip
Connecting spaces and events in Zurich

6. Process
‘City as a device’
Choosing a device in the city
3 in a team – connecting
devices
One concept design for
‘Connecting Spaces’
Presenting the concept design
using postcards

7. Process
‘City as a device’
Choosing a device in the city
3 in a team – connecting
devices
One concept design for
‘Connecting Spaces’
Presenting the concept design
using postcards

8. Process
‘City as a device’
Choosing a device in the city
3 in a team – connecting
devices
One concept design for
‘Connecting Spaces’
Presenting the concept design
using postcards

9. Process
‘City as a device’
Choosing a device in the city
3 in a team – connecting
devices
One concept design for
‘Connecting Spaces’
Presenting the concept design
using postcards

10. Process
‘City as a device’
Choosing a device in the city
3 in a team – connecting
devices
One concept design for
‘Connecting Spaces’
Presenting the concept design
using postcards

11. Mapping the different tram lines Creating marketing material for the concept

12. Flip - a – Trip
The idea: Backside of every tram ticket
will have a ticket to a nearby event, community, festival

13. A traveler picks up a tram ticket Tram ticket at one side Ticket to a nearby film screening at the
other side

14. Gets interested in the film screeningReaches the place She has ‘flipped a trip’

15. Unique way of presenting using postcards

16. ETH Game Programming Laboratory

17. Project Venue

18. Team: Denis Cliofas, Nambirajan Vanamamalai, Stefan Schmidlin

20. Brainstorming:A game about games anyone?
EVOLUTION:

21. Final Idea: Racing and Survival of the ‘adaptest’

22. Physical Prototyping: How to do racing on paper?

23. First Digital Prototype: 3D and split screen

24. Elements: Earth track, Ice track, Lava track

25. Track transformation: Into an Ice track

26. Transformation triggers, Complex tracks

27. Red and Blue as primary ‘elements’

28. Playtesting: Observing, Feedback and Iteration

29. Music: Racy,rock, upbeat

30. Trailer
Game Video

31. Game presentation at ETH

32. Game setup after the presentation

33. Game setup after the presentation

34. News Games Hackathon

35. Process
Choosing a news as the idea
for a game
Forming Teams
Making the Game in about
3 hours

36. News: African Immigrants travelling by hundreds in illegal boats to Europe

37. A game based on the news of African immigrants stranded in the sea.

38. Presenting the games at the end of the hackathon

39. Learnings: Using Vine to create quick trailers; paying attention to player onboarding.

40. Minor Courses

41. Recreating an image based on descriptionWriting description for a photograph

42. A 2 hour game workshop with Zambo TV, a local TV network

43. Amaze Indie Games Festival – Demos, Talks, Indie Games.

44. Swiss Nature Culture History Society

45. Classes, presentation and excursions to learn about Switzerland’s culture.

46. Museum Visits

48. < Nintendo as a digital assistant in Louvre
Indicators for audio guides in Museums

49. Musee D’ Orsay, Paris Parc Guell Museum, Barcelona Red Cross Museum, Geneva

50. Thank you