Klaus Fehkührer

NIVA is a pacifistic exploration art game. The player slips into the role of a mighty forest god to tend the forest and free it of conflicts that disturb the harmony. It's available for free since November 1st 2016 on itch.io.

In a team of ten students I was in the position of the Lead Game Designer. My vision was to create simple but intriguing game mechanics and allow players to immerse into this mesmerizing forest to have a rest from their stressful everyday life.

Moreover, I took care of the organization and marketing of the project, what led to a huge success in the scope of a student project - within three months it achieved over 30 000 downloads.

Awards & nominations:

• winner of the ACGA 2016 in "Best Game"

• winner of the ACGA 2016 in "Best Student Project"

• bronze winner of the ADC Germany 2017 Junior Award

• finalist of Vienna's Subotron Live Pitch 2016

• part of the Indie Prize Showcase Berlin 2017

NIVA's official website: www.nivagame.com

YoKaisho is the combination of a modern day tablet app and a traditional board game.

Within a team of seven students I was in charge of game design and vision keeping. Additionally I was responsible for all visual effects, UI, modeling of several assets and also the organization of the project.

Awards & nominations:
• winner of the ACGA 2015 in the category "Best Game", also nominated for "Best Interactive & Crossmedia Art"

• nominated at the animago AWARD 2014 for "Best Game Design" besides Watch Dogs, Titanfall and Ryse: Son of Rome

• shortlisted at European Youth Award 2014 for "Connecting Cultures"

Grab Universe
This game was created during a 24 hour game jam with a team of 5 people. It's is a 2D multiplayer game. Every player controls two alien hands floating around in outer space within various game modes, trying to get hold on tiny rotating planets while grabbing one that's already taken kicks off the other player.

Head down Tribe

At the Radius Vienna 2016 Game Jam our team of 4 people got rewarded with the 2nd Place for creating this project within 72 hours. In the game you have to save smombies (smartphone zombies) from running into hazards because they are unaware of their surroundings while staring at their phones.