ITU Summer Games 2026 x Kildevæld Kulturcenter x Game On!
Twice a year, the students of the Games Program at ITU step out from behind their screens (and their board-game prototypes, playable digital artifacts, and their research papers) to show the world what they’ve made. This summer, we’re doing it at Kildevæld Kulturcenter—and you’re invited.
Summer Games is our end-of-semester exhibition: an afternoon and evening of playable games, curious experiments, and short talks from the people who built them. Some projects are polished; some are held together with tape and ambition. All of them are worth your time.
So bring your friends, bring your family, bring your curiosity. There’ll be things to play, makers to meet, and refreshments throughout. We can’t wait to show you what our students have been up to this semester!
Preliminary schedule:
16:00-17:00–Showcase and refreshments–enjoy a snack and play creative and quirky games!
17:00-17:10–Welcome
17:10-17:20–Rattler
17:20-17:30–Tomb Escape
17:30-17:40–Second Dealing
17:40-17:50–Manorism
17:50-18:00–BIND
18:00-18:10–Blade of Magnifica
18:10-18:20–Knights of the Open Road
18:20-18:30–TeknoRat
18:30-18:40–Broodlings
18:30-21:00–Refreshments, ‘hygge’, networking, and experience the projects in the showcase.
21:00–the bartender goes home–goodbye and have a nice summer!
Links and descriptions of projects:
Tomb Escape (https://www.ptandersen.com/?show=tomb-escape&mode=only)
Tomb Escape is a 4+ player online multiplayer social deduction game with a twist: it’s symmetric. Every player can betray or cooperate at any time, with no fixed traitor role. Players gather ritual items to escape a skeleton-filled tomb, but there’s one fewer escape spot than players, forcing inevitable betrayal.
Second Dealing (https://aaaaatlas.itch.io/second-dealing)
Second Dealing is a roguelite, inspired by Buckshot Roulette and CloverPit, where you play Blackjack for a second chance at life in a shady, cheating casino, and twist the shared deck in your favor with powerful items.
Rattler (https://dwarfnaut.itch.io/rattler)
Rattler is a fast-paced survival chaser game, heavily inspired by quakelikes. Move around the sewers of Pyllbox collecting your rattling devices (pill bottles), while avoiding the deadly stillaumbra (the ghost). The pills help you stay alive (eating) and damage stillaumbra (rattling), wherever you are.
Manorism (https://kiwicrewgames.itch.io/manorism)
Manorism was created in 6 weeks by 13 students for the 2025 semester of DADIU at the DTU Skylab. It is a cozy horror puzzle game where the player explores a manor with strange rooms, uses magic to solve a handful of playful puzzles, and form bonds with the residents living in the manor in a short tale about home and belonging. This game was also available and presented with its own booth setup at the Copenhagen Gaming Week 2026 as a part of TAGS.
BIND (https://gloweticgames.itch.io/bind)
BIND is a slow-paced metaphysical puzzle journey set in the liminal realm between death and rebirth, ruled by the divine sisters of fate.
The player takes on the role of a traversing spirit solving challenges connected to the thread of life.
BIND poses existential questions in an abstract environment, supported by ethereal voices and atmospheric sound design, creating an unconventional puzzle experience. “
Blade of Magnifica
It is a puzzle game where you kill monsters and extract their element from their blood. You use these elements to solve creative combat puzzles. For example, you can kill a fire monster, and then harness the fire element from their blood, applying it to your sword. This allows you to kill shielded monsters you couldn’t kill before.
Knights of the Open Road (https://krystof-marasek.itch.io/knights-of-the-open-road)
Knights of the Open Road is a third-person action-adventure game set in a world where medieval knights ride motorcycles. You play as a disgraced knight trying to reclaim his lands and rescue his family through the one skill he excels at: motorcycle jousting.
TeknoRat (https://bozho521.itch.io/teknorat)
TeknoRat is a fast-paced 2D stealth game. Step into a cyberpunk future driven by animal experimentation as a cybernetically modified rat designed for espionage and assassination on a mission to assassinate The Hedgehog, leader of an underground society of street vermin.
Brooddlings (https://aleunam97.itch.io/brooddlings)
Brooddlings is a relaxing musical puzzle game with a focus on environmental storytelling and exploration. In Brooddlings you wander an island amongst mystical bird species that have yet to be discovered.