Final Project 'Breaking News' Wins Grand Prize at the Boston FIG Festival

“Breaking News” – the final project by Danil Bialo, Tamir Herzberg and Evyatar Cohen won the top award for Excellence in Design at Boston FIG Festival for Independent Games. The project was also nominated in the Excellence in Visual Art and Best Student Game categories.

The project was created in collaboration with Danil, a graduate of the Department of Visual Communication at Bezalel, and Tamir and Evytatar, graduates of the Games Division at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The three began the project in the “Digital Game Development” with fellow students Yonatan Vologdin, Dana Morag and Eden Lederman, supervised by Eran Haleli, Doron Esias and Idan Rosa, which they continued to develop into a joint final project supervised by Rotem Fisch and Yuval Markovich. The game was presented at the 2024 Bezalel Graduates Exhibition, for which they were awarded the Meisler Prize.

The game presents a chaotic interactive experience that allows the player to change the reality broadcast through physical contact with the television set. Through a series of iconic television images and scenes, designed in an abstract and humorous language, the user can control the outcome and change it to their advantage.

Project page on the 'Bezalel 2024 Graduates website'