WHAT IS BRIEFS?
Briefs is a platform for mini games. Every year, we publish an open call and invite artists to produce their special, crazy, inspiring ideas around a specific theme. In 2025, the theme was CHEESE.
Winners 2025
🧀 Medienzentrale with the game: "I made a game for you"
🧀 Phoebii with the game: "Phoebii's Preserve (The road to a Neohuman’s heart is paved with... cheese?)"
🧀 Kate Bagenzo with the game: "baetyl"
Get your BRIEFS Cheese bundle on itch.io and play cheesy games!
The Games 2025
🧀 Medienzentrale with the game: "I made a game for you"
"I Made A Game For You" is a game where you play a game while talking to your dad, who made the game: “Dad (groan) made a game — ‘for me’. (double groan) So he asked me to test it. I’m doing it because I’m the nicest. It’s a shooter. ...how creative.”
A game by Felix Schindler (graphics, design, music) and Friedrich Hanisch (programming, level design, story).
🧀 Phoebii with the game: "Phoebii's Preserve (Paths to neohuman hearts are paved with... Cheese?)"
"Phoebii's Preserve" is a cyberpunk dating simulator where love can be bought with cheese!
~ The year is 23XX ~
A post-utopian post-capitalist power-consolidated society is ruled by brutal 'cooperatives' producing so-called 'neohumans' for their unethical needs
Your stroll in the forest just outside the city, due to a series of unlikely events, ends up with you trapped in 'the Preserve' - an abandoned shelter complex for escaped neohumans
Your time here is numbered, and your only way out is to make the neohumans care about your precarious situation
~ Good luck ~
Authors and indie game developers: Phoebii & Rita.
🧀 Kate Bagenzo with the game: "baetyl"
baetyl is a lateral thinking puzzle game with a mysterious story.
baetyl is...
...a lost friend
...a god preserved in stone
...a lateral thinking puzzle
...a shut in
A game by Kate Bagenzo.
CALL MISSED?
Submission of game ideas was possible until May 24, 2025! Missed it? Don’t worry – BRIEFS will return in 2026! Stay tuned, get your BRIEFS Cheese bundle on itch.io and play cheesy games!
