2025 | Spring Demo Day
2025
A Short Life
Zihan Liu
Game
A heart needs to keep beating.
Animal Planner
Chao Cui
, Yifan Zhou
, Josef He
Game
A relaxing sliding puzzle game about arranging animals to make them happy.
AR4U - Voice Assistant for the Elderly
Timo Niskanen
, Silas Rech
, Gautam Vishwanath
, Juha Salmitaival
Research
AR4U is a project dedicated to empowering senior citizens to live more independently at home.
Bark No MR
Shamit Ahmed
, Yu-Jung Liu
Embodied Interaction
Bark no More is a mixed reality (MR) tower defense game that reimagines your everyday surroundings as an interactive battlefield.
Can a Clump of Sand Become a Seed?
Hyunji Kim
Master's Thesis
It all started from observing my niece calling the act of burying the sand models he made ‘Planting’.
Codename: Milkman
Markku Laskujärvi
Game
A 3D first person science fiction experience.
Come, Closer
Vera Rantamaa
Embodied Interaction
This work was made for embodied interaction course.
CookieBite - The Board Game
Hanzhi Zhang
Game
CookieBite is based on my solo board game project, where the players will be the members of a K-POP girl group.
Cuddle Up
Zihan Liu
Game
A sokoban-like puzzle game where you push seals to cuddle up together.
Don't You Dare Go Hollow: How Dark Souls Helps Players Cope with Depression, a Thematic Analysis of Reddit Discussions
Jaakko Väkevä
, Perttu Hämäläinen
, Janne Lindqvist
Research
Presentation of our research study on the videogame Dark Souls and how players described it as helping them cope with depression.
Feu Follet
Kathleen "Kai" Lindgren
, Kettu Kautto
, Zihan Liu
, Shurong Han
, Çağan Korkmaz
, Barış Mutlu
Game Project
Feu Follet is a cozy PC puzzle game.
Heya '95: Games of My Life
Heya Kwon
Systems of Representation
A 360 archive of significant games I played in my life.
Lumios
Peter Gyugos
Game Project
Lumios is an isometric roguelike game where you have to save your planets ecosystem from the invading robots.
Master of Puppeteers
Janne Storm
Interactive Sound Installation
Master of Puppeteers is interactive spatial sound installation, where audience’s movements turn into magical soundscapes that move around the space in 29 -channel spatial sound.
Sunlit Grass and Gentle Warmth: A Journey Through Other Senses
Patrick Mahr
Performance
Audio drama performance / 15 min
Symbiotic Voxels: Human-AI Co-creation
Jiayi Li
Symbiotic Voxels is an ongoing prototype exploring human-AI co-creation in a 3D voxel sandbox using generative AI.
The Melting City
Connor Zhang
, Xianyue Sun
In a world that often fears loss and avoids reflection on mortality, “Profile of a City That Was” offers a quiet, tangible experience of impermanence.
The Popular Way
Markus Skraba
Performance
“The Popular Way” is an interactive live coding performance in which the audience influences the piece by voting on different options presented every few minutes.
Through These Eyes: A Heavy Heart
Gautam Vishwanath
This interactive experience offers a first-person perspective of the streets of war as they exist today — a space where destruction and memory collide.
Tiny Criminals
Apruv Rayate
, Yuchen Hu
, Michelle Lauriste
, Yu-Jung Liu
, Eelis Koivusaari
Tiny Criminals is combination racing and cozy game where you play as a cute thief providing for his family.
Trust Box
Heya Kwon
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Void Tomb
Gege Fei
, Hiski Huovila
, Iiro Peltonen
, Xueyun Zhang
, Yidi Mao
Void Tomb is an inventive bullet-hell roguelike where you choose the rooms you brave.
Voyeur
Tereza Palmonová
, Sasha Usoskin
, Zsuzsa Oláh
, Jeremias Jokila
, Esther Calderón M
Voyeur is a game project created for game project course that was running January till June of 2025.
Wearable Instrument
Xuefei Shi
This project bridges body, sound, and textiles by creating a wearable instrument that transforms movement into musical expression.