CHLUDENS RESEARCH PROJECTS NEWS, TALKS, EVENTS
UNIVERSITIES & RESEARCHERS CONTACT
CH LUDENS – Sinergia project funded
by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF.

CH LUDENS looks at a vibrant game design and development scene in the pre-Internet age. For decades, digital games were programmed in Switzerland in niches, but also with commercial success. They bear witness to many sub-scenes and a society changing through digitization. The CONFOEDERATIO LUDENS team explores this largely ignored games industry from 1968 to 2000 and takes a step towards the broader preservation of a highly ephemeral and disappearing cultural heritage.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Do you know something about game development in the early days in Switzerland and would love to share that with us? Maybe you worked yourself one a game and didn’t release it, maybe you know people who did. Either way, get in contact and send a message to info@chludens.ch!

swissdigitzation.ch

collects memories, experiences of the Swiss digitalisation 1960+.

www.gamelab.ch
collects news of the gamelab at Zurich University of the Arts


chludens.ch/gamedesignarchive
collects vintage swiss games between 1996 and 2000.

chludens.hypotheses.org
collects articles and research publications within the research of chludens.
NEWS
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TALKS & EVENTS
Ringvorlesung
2.10, 16.10, 6.11, 20.11. 2023, Unitobler, Bern

Playbern Festival

16. September 2023, Bern

Tagung Games & Literature

28.–30. June 2023, Marbach

DiGRA

2023, Sevilla, Spain

GRADE Conference
20. – 21. April 2023, Warsaw, Poland

Vintage Computing Festival
November 2022, Zurich

19 RESEARCHERS, 4 UNIVERSITIES
POSTDOC
Addrich Mauch
Hiloko Kato
Pierre-Yves Hurel
RESEARCHER
René Bauer
Noemi Chow
Laura Strub

ASSISTANT
Johan Cuda
PHD STUDENT
Adrian Demleitner
Aurelia Brandenburg
David Krummenacher
Larissa Wild
Sophie Bémelmans
CONTACT
University of Bern
Digital Humanities
Muesmattstrasse 45
3012 Bern

Tobias Hodel
Research associate
& Assistant professor
tobias.hodel@unibe.chHKB


Bern Academy of the Arts
Ein Departement der Berner Fachhochschule
Fellerstrasse 11
3027 Bern

Eugen Pfister
Research associate
eugen.pfister@hkb.bfh.ch UNIL



University of Lausanne
Gamelab UNIL–EPFL
Quartier Centre
1015 Lausanne

Yannick Rochat
Assistant professor
yannick.rochat@unil.ch

CONTACT

GAme Design Archive 1966-2000

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