A Film? A Game? A Visual Novel?

2025

New Media

Authors

Celine Airich

Leonie Bolek

Alexander Chaluppa

Sabrina Hofmann

Sten Mbouna-Mboumounou

Sidonie Petersen

Philip Ponto

Andreas Scherlinger

Max Scheider

Benedict Serr

Valentin Serr

Dorothea Siebert

Annabel Stadler

Marco Verri

Lars Weber

Type

Semester Project

Field of Study

New Media

Supervisor

During the tour of the exhibition, Prof. Olia Lialina presented her semester project “A Film? A Game? A Visual Novel?”

A film can be made as a game. Some games are more cinematic than many films. A novel can be interactive. A website can be something you watch. The dashboard of a car can become a game; a driving simulator might be your way to learn how to drive. These are just a few examples showing how the boundaries between different mediums are blurring.

Students embraced this challenge. Presented here are cozy and adventure games, immersive sims, visual novels, and other experimental genres. Many of these projects are still works in progress.

The semester project on Olia Lialina’s pad.