She Got Game 2026: selected participants

Camille Bovey
Mentor: Stephanie Darrah

Ravioli Planet is a cosy and narrative cooking-management game in which players must optimise resources and reduce food waste. Players follow Mamie Ravioli, a grandmother on a quest to find a forgotten recipe from her youth while running a ravioli food truck. As she serves her specialities to passers-by, players accompany her as she travels from country to country in a soft, colourful, hand-animated 2D world.

Camille Bovey is a freelance director and 2D animator based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She produces short films, music videos, illustrations and commissioned projects for cultural institutions and businesses.

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Lisa Bach
Mentor: Dasha Nasonova

Taking inspiration from the classic Tamagotchi mechanics, In Full Bloom centres on a simple goal: keeping the creature alive. As players feed the ever-hungry entity, it outgrows its environment, confronting them with the conflict between responsibility and mindless consumption. Blending the strange with the familiar, the game challenges players to consider the consequences of their choices. In the end, there is only one path forward.

Lisa Bach is a Zurich-based game designer and the co-founder of obleak games.

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Naomi Blidariu
Mentor: Sofía Mattegazzore

Echoes is a video game that draws players into a sensory experience where environments gradually disintegrate in visual layers, ultimately giving way to void. With space and elements acting as decoys, much like a mirage, players are forced to rely on senses other than sight, navigating through sound and touch. Based on game mechanics designed for visually impaired individuals, Echoes questions the dominant role of vision as the primary means of orientation.

Naomi Blidariu is a designer passionate about new forms of video game interaction. She specialises in designing speculative interactive installations as well as accessible game design.

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Reina Burkhalter
Mentor: Dajana Dimovska

Furei – Journey of Two Spirits is a couch co-op 3D puzzle adventure game following a young priestess and her spirit-fox companion. When the villagers turn to stone during the village festival, the pair embark on a journey to uncover the truth behind the tragedy and Furei, a mysterious phoenix connected to it. Players travel across floating islands, ancient machinery, and forgotten ruins, activate and guide automatons using a sacred flute, possess vessels, and reveal hidden paths to help lost souls.

Reina Burkhalter is a composer and game designer with a strong focus on emotional storytelling in interactive media. Her work combines narrative-driven visual design and original music to create cohesive, atmospheric experiences.

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Vivien Helbling
Mentor: Sithe Ncube

Mirror Mirror is a psychological-horror narrative told through skin-care simulation mechanics. The story centres on Elle, a young woman trapped in an unending nightmare before her bathroom mirror. What begins as an identity crisis evolves into a mind-bending descent into the depths of her fractured self. Players must work out how to use her cosmetics to alter her appearance and help her escape the prison of her own mind.

Vivien Helbling is a game designer, new media artist and musician based in Lucerne.

Celeste Fournier
Mentor: Chriss Vasquez

Linha Indireta is a psychological-horror game where players take on the role of the host of a 1990s television-crime show. As the story unfolds, players are stalked by a mysterious figure and receive unsettling VHS tapes containing strange recordings. The game explores social themes such as inequality and justice, inspired by 1990s-2000s television and Rio de Janeiro’s culture, with a touch of surrealism and retro, analogue visuals.

Celeste Fournier is a Brazilian trans game developer and co-founder of Lombra Studio, which they run alongside Artemisia. Together, they are currently developing Linha Indireta.

Cassie Li
Mentor: Stephanie Darrah

Glimmer is a narrative-driven social-stealth puzzle game about making wishes come true. Players take on the role of a newborn god with the disguise ability to assume another character’s face and identity. By becoming the right person at the right moment, they slip past restrictions, reach pivotal conversations, and navigate their way towards moments where mortal wishes are granted and lives are reshaped.

An independent game designer passionate about stories and level design, Cassie Li is currently developing her third game, Glimmer.

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Qiyue Sun
Mentor: Anna-Lena Pontet

The Prying Glass is a first-person 2D psychological-horror game exploring the terror of being seen and the thrill of striking back. Players first experience the creeping dread of finding hidden cameras in intimate spaces. Then, the gameplay flips: as a skilled data analyst, they hack the perpetrators’ digital networks, expose their footprints, and deliver their own form of justice.

Qiyue Sun is an indie developer and narrative designer from China.

Paula Santa Maria
Mentor: Allison Yang

A Life in a Year is a narrative adventure about the emotional challenges of being a teenage exchange student, offering a more realistic perspective on an experience that is usually idealised. Players explore foreign environments, make choices that shape relationships and storylines, and face language barriers represented as scribbles, a metaphor for misunderstanding.

Paula Santa Maria is a Chilean game designer creating meaningful narratives and expressive mechanics that promote empathy and introspection.

Engy Abdelrashid
Mentor: Yasemin Günay

Return is an adventure game in which players unravel the deep ties between heritage, nature, and survival. It invites players to explore environments such as Wadi El-Hitan, Siwa Oasis, and the Western Desert, uncovering fossils, sulphur springs with healing power, and ancient drought stories. Players trace echoes of the past as they attempt to resolve ecological cycles connected to the Nile River. The experience is conceptual, fun, and mysterious, with meaning emerging through exploration and interpretation rather than direct exposition.

The game is created by Engy Abdelrashid and Yasmin Elbaz, two game designers and educators whose work focuses on using games as tools for cultural preservation and immersive, enjoyable learning.

Srushti Paranjpe
Mentor: Sithe Ncube

Eve of the Evil (working title) revisits the local folklore of a quaint festival unique to the game developer’s hometown, shaping it into a narrative game experience. Inspired by the festival, the game follows a fictional town on the day of its annual procession, where players assist quirky townsfolk seeking to cleanse the evils within and around them.

Srushti Paranjpe is a game designer and illustrator from India who enjoys creating artistically rich, story-led games.

Grace James
Mentor: Poornima Seetharaman

GreenQuest: Monsters and Threats is an immersive action-adventure game that addresses climate change through interactive storytelling and gameplay. Set in a futuristic world, the game follows Niko on a mission to save her brother while confronting monsters born from climate disasters. Players complete quests such as tree planting, waste management, and ecosystem restoration to earn green jewels, which unlock progression. The game blends Afro-futuristic aesthetics with impact-focused design to create an engaging experience that connects virtual action with real-world environmental awareness.

Grace James is the founder of GreenQuest Innovations, a collective of Afro-futuristic storytellers, game creators, and impact-driven changemakers.

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Oluwaseyi Ogunrinde
Mentor: Violetta Leoni

Circuit Chakula is an Afrofuturistic visual novel in which players must make a living while dealing with the chaos that follows the arrival of aliens on Earth. Players decide what an ideal world might look like when humanity is no longer alone. Taking on the role of a repair worker, they build bonds with customers, uncover conspiracies, and decide how society deals with the strangers among us. The game offers intriguing storylines, engaging minigames, and beautiful lo-fi music options.

Oluwaseyi Ogunrinde is a game developer based in Lagos, Nigeria.