2024 | Winter Demo Day

Works from the 3D Animation Minor in 2024.

Thief’s Eye is an immersive virtual reality game that combines entertainment and art education, where players take on the role of a master thief and accept a special challenge from a museum curator.

Aurinko and Selene is a 2D animation that tells a story of two children, Sun and Moon, who have a mythical argument originating from the differences in their genome.

This project is an embodied interaction work that focuses on a balance wooden board. The audience can play a quick demo game by tilting left and right on the board.

Before The Dark is a narrative-driven game that explores the fragile nature of human cognition and the experience of loss.

Sizzle showreel and slides showcasing the student work done during courses as part of the Building Virtual Worlds minor.

Codename: Milkman is a FPS game with a wholesome message, combining gameplay mechanics from espionage and action games into a unique video game experience.

Contamination to System, is an interactive mapping project inspired from the phenomenon that some sea creatures consume man-made contamination which then combines in their body and finally flows into the sea ecosystem and exploring ocean contamination and the threats to sea creatures caused by humans.

Fluffy Friend is a fluffy soft robot. People can interact with it.

Free as Birds parallels the journeys of birds and immigrants amid global deforestation and displacement.

Single user experience: a participant interacts with the animation projected on the table.

The project is a drum machine instrument inspired by the Guess Who? game.

A cartoony childlike puzzle adventure game about collecting tasty apples.

A wearable sound controlling piece with stretching sensors on to trigger sound effects (such as reverb, frequency, amplitude, speed, granular position, etc.) with intuitive body movements.

Koto is a game about self expression and patience. You play as a wizard living in a small house which you decorate using your magical notebook.

What if we could design mechanical movements just as simply as drawing on paper? LINKKI was born in response to this question as a tool for designing movements.

Luxiska, merges light and sound to create an immersive musical experience.

Mobile makerspaces are traveling workshops carrying digital fabrication equipment like laser cutters and 3D printers. For my master’s thesis, I designed and built a mobile makerspace for children’s education.

Interactive timeline that presents some moments from the 30 years of the Media Lab.

Millennia at Play is an interactive project inspired by the Color-painted Relief Scene of Musicians Playing.

No Signal is a fast paced management game, where your task is to keep the cruise ship carrying the name Avalon under control.

MA thesis presentation. Virtual reality experience to explore the reconstruction of the author memories.

Nutrient Collector is a self-contained VR game letting the player collect to save the nutrients that drain away from the living world underground

odditype is a web application that functions to add some oddity to your typefaces.

ODDLI is a satisfying puzzle game about finding harmony in chaos

PhotoCrit: Fish Edition is a photography game where you find and photograph critically endangered fish in a digital aquarium.

Building upon the concept of genius loci (the spirit of a place), Poetry of Place seeks to give voice to a particular environment by translating the parameters of environmental conditions into poetry using Large Language Models (LLM) to generate text.

Shit Movie Club is a series of media student events started by Vertti and Burak in 2023, and currently continued by Lu. It is a communal project, where everyone in the community is welcome to suggest and organize the screening.

Rhythmara is an instrument which has a unique combination of generative synthesis and ribbon control inspired by Swarmatron principles, designed to offer tactile, expressive interaction through the Bela platform.

Ruby Ran Away from Home is a game about a vampire girl in trouble with her dad.

A text-based video game about Hesitation.

An interactive game prototype, where the avatars exist in more than a solid state, but gas or liquid.

Come and join an interstellar adventure in Stellar Surfer, an immersive embodied game where balance is the key to success!

The musical instrument suiōnki draws inspiration from Japanese traditional kamameshi pot, transforming the process of rice-making into an interactive performance.

A puzzle game about crazy growing plants.

Collective Metabolism of Extremophiles speculates on an imaginary, yet not unbelievable, landscape of boiling seas.

This short film explores the profound feeling of loneliness even amidst a bustling crowd, delving into the dissonance between external chaos and internal solitude.

Loosely inspired by a handful of scenes of “Midsommar”, the strainer’s main goal is to record and mimic the sound, while changing pitches, adding distortions and/or delays.

Traceless is an interactive sound sculpture with visual projections, inviting audiences to engage with its narrative through handheld controllers.

The concept for this musical instrument draws inspiration from stridulation - the sound production method of certain animals, especially insects, that generate sound by rubbing body parts together.

Where’s home from here? is a 360° video installation that transforms live weather data from a given location into an immersive experience.

Whispers of the Wild invites you to step into the role of a lost traveler, awakened on a mysterious island at night.

If wind could write, what would its words look like? Wind Typography is a visualization of wind data based on imagined typographic rules.

Wish You Were Here is a long distance friendship communicator. When one cherry is pressed, the other makes a sound and vice versa. Their aim is to connect friends across continents.

XR Design - Metropolia UAS is a degree programme that focuses on XR content production skills. The programme was established in 2018, and since its birth it has been a collaboration between people from Metropolia UAS (formerly EVTEK) and Aalto Media Lab.