Using a mixed reality headset, the students used their surroundings as playground. Through creative gestures, each experiment proposes a way of interacting with the environment.
Workshop (2025) with Mario Von Rickenbach
In a world where ingredients are lying about, a recipe is desperately trying to be followed. Mixing the right elements yields a dessert; the wrong ones, an inedible culinary conundrum.
Ecal has been vandalized! As a student, you will be in charge to defend ECAL from HEAD school's thugs.
By Teo Grajqevci , Yann Müller
An escape game where the danger is invisible to the naked eye: only a mask gives a glimpse of the creature stalking silently.
By Shana Meinecke , Nyria Graber et Daniel Rocha
They talk, they shout, they affirm. The player has only one option: slap them.
A medieval clicker where every gesture is a quest: tap, mine, harvest, buy, repeat. All to get rich, without ever leaving your headset.
By Andreas Abbaszadeh , Jonathan Vögele
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Mario Von Rickenbach
Using a mixed reality headset, the students used their surroundings as playground. Through creative gestures, each experiment proposes a way of interacting with the environment.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet, Cyril Diagne, Christophe Guignard, Gaël Hugo
SkyRod is a family of three games that transform tiny physical objects into video game heroes. Suspended with a rod fixed on the screen, the objects become integrated into the virtual environment of the screen. Moving in front of the webcam, the user make the objects interact with the content of the screen. I combined simple visual effects with advanced technologies to create intuitive interactions playing with space and perception, which are main subjects in my work.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes
Just a game? is an interactive project that explores how war video games contribute to the trivialization of violence through their game design. Why are weapons perceived as desirable objects? How do customization, visual and sound effects make the act of killing satisfying? What remains of a body after death in a video game? And what does this say about our relationship to violence? In these games, nothing is left to chance: pleasure, oblivion, hostility — it's all a question of design. Through a series of classic combat scenes, this immersive documentary invites viewers to observe, question and understand the systems that transform war into a playful experience.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Pauline Saglio, Christophe Guignard, Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo, Laura Nieder, Lara Défayes
In this point-and-click game, players take on the role of a maid on her first day in a luxury hotel. Each level consists of a messy room left behind by guests. The player must remember the list of tasks and complete them in the correct order to restore the room. The gameplay relies on simple, repetitive actions, where order and memory are key, with no room for error in such meticulous surroundings. Through repetition, the actions become mechanical, but the slightest mistake forces the player to start over. Guided by the overbearing voice of a manager, the experience combines curiosity, frustration and a quiet sense of absurdity in a simple game loop.
BA MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Pauline Saglio
Folklore Fusion – a CGI character project developed by students in Bachelor Media & Interaction Design at ECAL, exploring the creative collision between Japanese and Swiss folklore through the lens of contemporary visual storytelling.