This document summarizes Nambirajan V's semester from February 16, 2015 to June 5, 2015 at Zurich University of the Arts. It includes details about workshops on connecting spaces in Zurich using public transportation as devices, a game design project creating a racing and survival game, participating in a game hackathon, and taking minor courses including workshops, presentations, excursions and museum visits focused on Swiss culture and history.

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