Created in the workshop “Game Lab: Let’s make a Visual Novel!” at ROOTS & ROUTES Space in Cologne, 2025
The culture rabbit isn’t doing so well. The culture rabbit is on the brink of extinction. And YOU can’t save it. At least not on your own. Make the right decisions, win allies, and breathe new life into the culture rabbit!
(Actually, our culture rabbit is more like a culture bunny—but we’re not going to split hairs).
From May to July 2025, Katharina Reich led the workshop “Game Lab: Let’s make a Visual Novel!” at the ROOTS & ROUTES Space in Cologne as part of the Peer Coach Academy 2.0. The participants worked together to develop an interactive story based on the fictional location “Der Kulturhase” (The Culture Rabbit), combining drawing, writing, music, and digital storytelling. After nine sessions, the alpha version of their first visual novel game entitled “Der Kulturhase” was created – a whimsically charming cozy game about preserving cultural and social spaces. Players must make decisions, win allies, and breathe new life into the endangered Kulturhase in order to reach one of eleven different endings.
Beta testing took place in early September and provided helpful feedback. Now the final version is ready and available online.
A huge thank you goes to the participants:
Elena Sciandrone, Olga Koroleva, Daniel Prasser, and Jessica Neumann.
Director: Katharina Reich
We hope you enjoy playing!
Funding
Peer Classes are the result of LevelUp! Academy 2025. Peer Classes and LevelUp! Academy 2025 are part of the RRCGN project “The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2.0,” which is funded by the EU Erasmus+ Youth program and the Kurt & Maria Dohle Foundation.
