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March to the Heart

Name
Jonathan Kelleher Skjøtt
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Design
Institute
Visual Design
Program
Visual Game and Media Design
Year
2025

March to the Heart is a tactical deckbuilding videogame set within a dying body. 

Command the immune system’s last hope to fight a disease. Expand your deck and make sacrifices to make your way through an increasingly infected world were each attempt provides a unique set of choices leading to the heart.

March to the Heart explores how replayable game experiences can be created through the combination of card mechanics of deckbuilding roguelikes with territorial mechanics of dudes-on-a-map style games like Risk.

From a game design perspective, March to the Heart represent a genre innovation in a relatively young medium through its combination of deckbuilding mechanics with  tactical board game mechanics.

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Education & Relevant Courses
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MA, Visual Game & Media Design

Royal Danish Academy
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BA, Arts & Humanities and Computational Sciences

Minerva University, San Francisco
Professional Work Experience
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PhD in Game Design and Evaluation

Department of Architecture, Design og Media Technology — Aalborg University
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Creative Technologist

Takram London
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Participant

Recurse Center