About Drive Away

In this 360° video, you follow the story of a young woman called Anna, who is fleeing Ukraine in her car. The viewer experiences the journey in three different scenarios. You see the world through Anna's eyes and get an impression of the life and the dangers on the run. The best viewing experience is on a phone that is held on eyesight level.

Since it is a 360° video, the phone can be moved to witness everything.

It aims to encourage viewers not to lose sight of the Ukraine-Russia war. It shifts the spectator into a role that forces them to sympathize with a woman fleeing a war zone.

The Video tells the story of millions of Ukrainian refugees that fled the country in a car. We told a fictive story that merges many experiences from fleeing Ukraine.

The Experience is told in three sceneries. A phone chat with Anna and her Dad is displayed in between. They talk about their situations and how they feel about them. The first section shows Anna standing in a traffic jam outside the city of Dnipro. The car is full of clothes, valuables and food. Then the scenery changes and Anna's car is standing in a wheat field surrounded by broken, smoking cars. Her fuel is almost empty and a tank is approaching from the distance. The third scene depicts the polish border. Her car is clattered, has broken windows and her cat is missing.

We tried to capture the development of the horror of fleeing. The story depicts a transformation of the atmosphere and danger. We focused on building up tension in the first two acts and seeming relief in the last. There often is no ultimate happy end when fleeing.

The video was developed in Unreal Engine 4. The engine took pictures that showed the camera's view in 360°. The sound was captured separately as well. We combined the visuals and audio in Premiere Pro and uploaded it to YouTube as a 360° Video.

About Flashback

Summary
Flashback portrays one person's memories of her neighborhood before the war. The world is a quiet Ukrainian backyard, carefree neighbors, children playing, sunny weather. This snapshot is interrupted by agonizing flashbacks. The person has survived the Russian occupation in 2022, but many of her neighbors have not. The flashbacks take the person back to the moments when she was the witness to the fates of her neighbors. All the stories pictured there are true and the sources are added.

Goal
The goal of this project is to sensitize people to what is happening in Ukraine. With the passage of time and the number of cruel reports from Ukraine, people living outside Ukraine become numb. Therefore, this is an attempt to increase attention to the Ukraine-Russia war of those not affected and reduce doubts regarding the support of Ukraine.
We learn about the war, mostly through press articles, photos and videos. These are two-dimensional and linear media. Reports about horrible events, that can be just short texts without many details. It gives the audience a lot of room for misinterpretation and imagination. This brings me to the questions: Can I use the power of interactive media, games, to give a different perspective on what is happening? Can I make the events and the reports up close and personal? Can I visualize the reports in an authentic way? If so, how can I accomplish all of this?
Since the goal is to raise awareness about the war in Ukraine, content must have the potential to trigger strong emotions. It is important to evoke emotions by telling true events, not by emotional manipulation. This means not portraying more than it is and was, and not exaggerating. Emotions are important because they are the opposite of indifference. Indifference to the subject of Russian aggression against Ukraine is what the project is trying to resolve.

Description
The game world is a small Ukrainian backyard. It depicts two states: just before the outbreak of war and at the beginning of it. In the backyard there are inhabitants. Their fates are represented in this backyard. The world is "frozen" in motion. Time is stopped - a snapshot, a memory, a flashback.
In the first state people live their everyday life: young families, children on the playground, elderly people. Through their posture and spatial arrangement, viewers can learn about their everyday life and living. In addition, the environment serves as a storytelling element.
In the second state, these people become victims of Russia's aggression. The backyard is occupied by Russian soldiers, which terrorize the people. The state forms fates of the people you met in the first state. This snapshot contains violence, murder and suffering.
The two states are in objective past. The memories may belong to a person who lived there and survived the war. From this person's point of view, the "players" view the game world.
The players can trigger the change between the states by interacting with people. The interaction triggers the flashbacks. where the fate of a selected person is visualized. The flashback can be left at any time. The players decide whether they want to watch the scene and learn more about the fate. When the flashback is left, the player is back in the peaceful first state.

Made By

Vlad T.

Polina Zvezdohliad

Christoph Weinreich

About Watchout

Concept
Follow the daily routines of normal ukrainian citizens and see how the war affects their lifestyles. You will be able to witness how the city and its inhabitants change with the progress of the war. How people flee the country, help their neighbors and trying to stay strong and optimistic during these times. With the option of our interactable timeline you will always be able to go back in time and focus on seeing and understanding the story of another person you haven't been watching before.

• Isometric View of an normal Neighborhood in Ukraine
• Over the course of the game you see how it transform
• You can move around the neighborhood and see different events taking place.
• Through a timeline you can always go back to see how things used to be

Made By

Linavalo Hinyemata

Dala Klimek

About Behind the Windows

Description / How to play:
In this game, you'll scroll through a tiny portion of a city filled with houses, and as you do, you'll notice that some of the windows in the buildings are lit up. These are your entry points into the lives of the people living in the city.
Click on a window, and you'll be transported into the life of the person living there. You'll get to read descriptions of what they're doing, what their day looks like, and what they're feeling.
But this isn't just any ordinary day in the life of the city. There's something different in the air, something that's causing chaos and disrupting the normal flow of things. As you explore further, you'll get to see the changes that take place during this very abnormal day in the life of the city.

Why was this game created? What's the goal?
The main goal was to create an immersive experience that showcases the unexpectedness and abnormality of war coming to a town, and how the usual daily routine of the people living there gets disrupted in horrible ways.
The game is designed to make you think about how tragedies, like war, can disrupt the lives of ordinary people, and how easily it could happen to any of us. By exploring the lives of the people in the city, you'll begin to see just how similar they are to you and your own family and friends, and you'll realize how devastating it would be if war were to suddenly come to your doorstep.
The game aims to awaken a depressing and unsettling thought in players about the fragility of our lives and the unpredictability of tragedy. Through this game, you'll gain a new appreciation for the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of cherishing the moments that we have with our loved ones.

Made By

Ariana Zeyvald

About Wheat and War

At the beginning of the war, the Russian army proved incapable of fighting respectfully. The aim of their presence is to destroy everything in their path: people, schools, malls, and fields. By deliberately targeting agriculture and agricultural infrastructure, the Russian military wants to cause an economic and famine crisis in Ukraine and far from its borders.

As a wheat farmer, you cultivate your fields in the game. But farmers in Ukraine don't have it that easy. As you harvest your wheat, missiles will fly into your field from the nearby front line and set it on fire. Stay strong to collect as much harvest as possible, as many rely on it.

Made By

Polina Zvezdohliad

Mascha Ermakova

Philipp Juhl

Christoph Weinreich

About (A)Typical Day

(a)typical day is an interactive comic in which the players can experience a day of a typical family from Odesa in October 2022. The motives and colors show an almost surrealistic environment. People try to continue to lead a completely normal life while the country is in a state of war and catastrophe. Coming from Odesa in Ukraine myself, the project is very personal to me. In October 2022 I was in Odesa and the comic was created from my personal experience and perception of the situation. With my Project I want to get attention to the problems like blackout, no opportunity for children to get appropriate education and depressive and hopeless everyday lives of people and also hint topics like unemployment. For those people this state of living became normal in a grotesque way.

Made By

Darya Goloborodko