Stack a Snack
Stack a Snack is a multimedia game where players can make bizarre and whimsical cakes by mixing unexpected ingredients. What happens when you mix green grass, red lava, grey concrete, and brown worms together? Each cake generated in Stack a Snack is unique to the ingredients chosen. Players get to take home their digital cake creations by scanning the QR code at the end of the game. Created in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for their Up, Down and All Around: Daniel Emma for Kids exhibition in the Children’s Gallery from 2 June 2023 – 8 October 2023. Over 57,000 cakes were made during the course of the exhibition. Game Development Team: Chad Toprak (Game Design), Helen Kwok (Animation) & Hsin Yang Ho (Programming)
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Swarming Instagram Filter
The Swarming Instagram Filter is a series of Instagram filters created for National Gallery of Victoria‘s Melbourne Now 2023 exhibition. Created in collaboration with artist James Lemon for his Swarming exhibit, participants can use the filter to: Be a Bee – transform themselves into a bee amidst the explosion of fluorescent colours in the space Be with the Bees – immerse themselves in a swarm of colourful animated bees The filter was accessible via QR codes in the Swarming exhibit, located on the third floor of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square from 24 March 2023 – 20 August 2023. Team: Chad Toprak (Design & Programming) & Helen Kwok (Animation)
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Make a Creature
Make a Creature is a multimedia game inspired by artist Remedios Varo, the Surrealists, and the game Exquisite Corpse – a drawing game that invited players to create strange creatures from different objects and body parts. In Make a Creature, players get to create their own creature by taking a photo of their face and augmenting it with a random objects for heads, bodies and legs. They can then scan the QR code to take their creation home. Created in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) for their Making Art exhibition in the Children’s Gallery from 10 June 2022 – 9 October 2022, Make a Creature was also installed at Chadstone Shopping Centre for a month. Nearly 60,000 creatures were made during the course of the exhibition. Game Development Team: Chad Toprak (Game Design), Helen Kwok (Animation) & Hsin Yang Ho (Programming)
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A Walk in the Bush
Created in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre, A Walk in the Bush is a videogame based on the artworks of Ms N Yunupiŋu, and inspired by the land and sea of North-East Arnhem Land. Children are introduced to the six seasons of the Country as they walk in the bush, spot hidden animals, collect bush food, and listen to stories. A rich learning and visual experience, the game concludes under the stars. Presented as part of The Gecko and the Mermaid exhibition in the Children’s Gallery at NGV from 17 December 2021 – 25 April 2022. Game Development Team: Chad Toprak (Game Design), Helen Kwok (Animation) & Hsin Yang Ho (Programming)
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One Hundred Ghost Stories
Freeplay Independent Games Festival Awards 2020: Finalist (Student Game Award) A book installation inspired by the One Hundred Ghost Stories experience in Japan. The popular parlour game involves sharing ghost stories with friends in a dark room filled with a hundred candles. After each frightening tale, a candle is extinguished. Upon the last candle going out, a spirit is said to be summoned. The aim of my studio project was to recreate this experience in the form of a light projection to transport the user into “another world”. I created and animated three of the ghost stories: Okiku (the ghost in the well); Koheiji (the ghost from the swamp); and Oiwa (the ghost in the lantern). Using the Leap Motion as a tracking device, the installation invites the user to extinguish the candle flame after every animation, before releasing a myriad of ghosts in a climatic ending. The installation was completed as part of my first semester studio project for the Master of Animation, Games & Interactivity program at RMIT University. It was showcased to the public at the MAGI EXPO 2019 in Melbourne (Australia) and the Connexions: Video Games and Virtual Reality exhibition in Strasbourg (France). Collaborators: Frances Inguillo (Sound Design)
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