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A scientific neurology game. Exploration of the brain is an incredibly complex discipline the results of which are crucial to medicine and other fields of science. Thanks to the involvement of thousands of participants in this game, scientists are gaining data which enable them to model various types of brain cells.

Sophisticated investigative game in which a player searches for a true picture of events in narratives and contexts using exploration and connecting parts of the story. It works with a database of images and secretly recorded conversations that capture two years in the lives of four people, gradually revealing their intimate life and details of their common story.

The game is part of a unique project that helps researchers build the world’s most extensive database for research and treatment of dementia. The player is a seafarer who takes photos of the ocean’s residents with which they are sailing while training their perception and sense of direction.

The sidewalks of Bratislava are occupied by advertisement tripods, traffic signs, lampposts and garbage cans, while the rest of the territory is occupied by wildly parked cars. The game Pawns seeks to highlight the long-standing, unresolved problem of the quality of public space and, in a fun way, shows the most natural way to get around – by walking, which has turned into a frustrating and dangerous activity.

This visually exceptional work which straddles the line between a slow game and an interactive animation invites the players to explore a landscape full of natural motifs and surprising artifacts depicted in a gentle drawing style.

A series of crime-solving mini games which make the players use various cognitive skills to help the research community understand the evolution and the forms of cognitive abilities, ways of problem solving, and reactions to common stimuli. This also advances the understanding of cognitive anomalies and the possibilities to identify them at their early stages.

A dystopian simulation in which players learn more about the reality of dependence on oil: they see the economic and social contexts, political dependence and the corruptive mechanisms as well as the rivalry with sustainable energy sources and the ways dependence on oil can be increased.

A sophisticated rendering of life in a totalitarian regime, in which the player finds themselves in a situation in which they are blackmailed and forced to do things with which he does not identify. The story (perhaps tactically a sham) of loyalty to the state and protecting its borders from migrants, with twenty different endings, helps one realize the value of freedom.

An autobiographical adventure that takes players along the exciting and surprising path of the young Syrian artist Abdullah Karama, who under dramatic circumstances, but presented with humor, escaped civil war in 2014.

This visually elaborate virtual exhibition space introduces an exploration of the basic mechanisms and visual qualities of games from the turn of the millennium into the level of digital galleries, thus enabling the presentation, within the medium of digital games, of student works as well as the work of artists selected by the students themselves. Currently exhibiting is Martin Lacko.

A seemingly simple adventure in which the world is heading for destruction in 6 days, during which time the player has one chance to change the course of fate. The game can be played only once.

A “slow game” in which an astronaut wanders through a visually arresting monochrome world, solving logic puzzles and overcoming obstacles. The speed of movement while exploring the world cannot be increased, which encourages players to enjoy the architecture of the world.