The Confessional

 Posted on September 12, 2026  |  3 min

At Zugvögel Festival 2026, our floor became a church - and what is a church without a confessional? So I built one: a wooden confessional box where festival visitors confess their sins to an AI priest, who teases the juicy details out of them, grants absolution, and then sends them onwards to the Holy Toilet - where their sins, anonymized and retold in an angel’s voice, are played back to whoever is enthroned there at the moment. [Read More]
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Walden Floor 2026: Santo Nido

 Posted on September 1, 2026  |  4 min

This year, our Walden floor at Zugvögel became Santo Nido: a church dedicated to a phoenix sect. Stained-glass windows, holy birds, an AI confessional, and a tower-clock that goes wild with the music. A lot of religious nonsense, and so much love for detail. [Read More]
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Tux-Kart with Real-Life Powerups

 Posted on June 25, 2025  |  4 min  • Other languages: 🇩🇪 Deutsch



First, there was the infamous PoolnudelschlagapparatPool Noodle Hitting Aparatus (PNHA). At Fusion Festival 2023, we had some pool noodles, some windshield wiper motors, and a wood construct to put a simple game into, so we did the only sensible thing to combine those things: You play Flappy Bird, and if you are too bad, you get hit with a pool noodle.

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