Games

What we make

Our own games and the ones partners asked us for. Click a card to read more.

Beyond the Chalkboard

❓	Point-and-click adventure about studying with a mental illness. You play the student Sam through three days of exams, group work and anxiety. Made for TH Köln to help lecturers and universities dismantle barriers.
🤝	Commissioned by TH Köln.
🌐	Play in the browser · TH Köln project page

Treffpunkt Freiheit

❓	Networked multiplayer game at the heart of "Spielräume Demokratie", the permanent exhibition at the LVR-Industriemuseum in Solingen. Visitors meet virtual conversation partners and negotiate what freedom means. Democracy education you can walk into.
🤝	Commissioned by the LVR-Industriemuseum.
🌐	Exhibition page

Bauhaus Bonk

❓	One-button arcade game: 54 Bauhaus-inspired levels, exactly one button. Pivot, spin, bonk, chase the global high score. Steam, iOS and Android.
🏆	GDD Indie Award 2026 for Best Game Mechanics and Best Sound. Nominated for the Deutscher Computerspielpreis 2025 and the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2025.
💰	Funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (prototype and production).
🌐	Everything about Bauhaus Bonk

Join the Comfortzone

❓	Decision-making adventure set in an authoritarian near future, built for civic education. Nine endings, one school lesson, no easy answers.
🤝	With Jugendstiftung Baden-Württemberg and PH Freiburg.
🏆	TOMMI Kindersoftwarepreis 2024, 3rd place.
🌐	Play in the browser · Project page

Adventurers' Advocate

❓	Narrative fantasy puzzle game about Featris, a kind-hearted shopkeeper who plans quests for adventurers on a magic puzzle board. Spoonful's first own game, developed under the working title Magic Pawnshop.
⏸️	Concept and prototype 2021 to 2023, funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. Shelved after the prototype.
🌐	The story so far

Before Spoonful

Games and research the team worked on before the studio existed.

Why We Play Whom We Play


❓	Research paper on the correlation between player personality and choice of avatar.
🏆	Published in GAME-ON 2021, 22nd International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation.
💪	Luke as first author.
🌐	Full-text available on ResearchGate.

No Pen, No Paper


❓	World building tool and mixed reality tabletop RPG for mobile, tablets and PC. "Just" a university project, yet its beta reached over 10.000 downloads.
🏆	3rd place of the audience award at Quo Vadis 2018.
💪	Tom as Project Lead & Programmer / Hanna as Narrative Designer / Elena as Game Artist.

Stop and Think


❓	Mobile game for addiction prevention among adolescents. Research Corporation between Cologne Game Lab (TH-Köln), KatHO NRW, and UvA Amsterdam.
💪	Hanna as Junior Game Designer & Playtest Planner.
🌐	https://colognegamelab.de/research/research-projects/solve/

Welt(en) der Werkstoffe


❓	Educational point and click adventure on the subject of material sciences.
🏆	DCP 2021 for Best Serious Game.
💪	Tom as author.
🌐	https://welt-der-werkstoffe.de/

Literalität des Spielens


❓	Research project at TH Cologne to introduce the discipline of game design in the context of workshops for children.
💰	Funded by the RheinEnergie Foundation.
💪	Nicole as 3D Artist.

Can't Wait to Learn


❓	A series of educational tablet games that enable children in conflict zones to learn to read and do math. Developed by &ranj on behalf of War Child Holland.
🏆	UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize in the category Innovation in Education.
🌐	https://www.warchildholland.org/intervention-cwtl/
💪	Hanna as Lead QA for Uganda Reading and Sudan Math.

Never Yield


❓	Super stylish runner game set in Detroit.
💪	Tom as Programmer and Additional Game Designer.
🌐	Never Yield on Steam and in the Nintendo Store.

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