Meowtiverse

Play as a cat who is long kept in her home and tries to escape, but finds that the door to the outside is somehow connected to random parallel dimensions. Use a mouse and press WASD to control the protagonist cat. Click and point to resolve the puzzles in three different rooms in order to get back to her original world.

Team:

  • Carl Swanberg – Sound Designer
  • Huajing Pan – Programmer
  • Qianyu Sun – Programmer
  • Venkata Vamsi Krishna Kola – Artist
  • Xueqi Qianyu – Artist
  • Yizhen Gao – Artist
  • Yuanyi Yu – Artist
  • Zhou Zhou – Lead Designer

KØLD

Vehicle (car), drive around and kill zombies (mutants, creatures), upgrade the vehicle to handle the increasingly harder waves of enemies. Players need to activate generators to open up the path up to the mountain and to escape the infected facility.

Team:

  • Boman Karlsson
  • Dennis Silén
  • Linn Line
  • Alexander Follin
  • Johanna Phetladda Mäkela
  • Mustafa Mohammed Syed
  • Yasser Azzam

 Join a Game of Mystery, Identity & Co-Design

Step into the world of The Inheritor – An immersive escape box experience that fuses the thrill of a murder mystery with the power of cultural storytelling.

🔍 You’re a recruit of the Bureau of Unexpected Cases. Your mission? Solve an unsolved mystery from 2019 involving a cryptic heirloom box and a request to find the rightful heir before that person’s time runs out.

But this is more than just a game. The Inheritor is part of a research project on imagined identity and educational escape rooms, funded by Kozminski University and Salam Lab Association.

🎓 Before the game, join a talk on co-designing games with minorities — featuring methods for participatory design and firsthand insights from the creation of The Inheritor and The People, a game focused on life at the Polish-Belarusian border during a humanitarian crisis.

🔹 The session will be led by Weronika Szatkowska MSc, co-author of both games and Małgorzata (Gosia) Ćwil PhD, researcher and lead in the research of escape boxes.

This is an invitation to play, learn, and reflect on identity, inclusion, and the future of interactive storytelling.

📅 Date: May 14
📍Where: Strandgatan 1b (Residenset)
🕑 Time: 14.00 Talk, and 15.00 the Mystery Game will start
👉 25 players can join – Register now to secure your place at https://lnkd.in/dCxRTv2i

Welcome! Join us to play, learn, and reflect on identity, inclusion, and the future of interactive storytelling.

Register for Games, Conflict, and Education

The programme and registration for the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education is now available! 

This hybrid outreach event is co-funded by the Erasmus+ ROCKET project; the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice; and the Department of Game Design.

Dates: June 12-13, 2025, 8-16 CEST

Location: Hybrid online and in person in Visby, Sweden