A Train Ride Home
A Train Ride Home is a solo role-playing game about reflecting on life, prompted by the fleeting and impermanent scenery around you as you take the train back home. Designed to be played at home or on a train. Created for A Game By Its Cover 2024, an annual game jam where participants turn a fictional cartridge art from the My Famicase Exhibition into a real thing. Originally inspired by the zenmen tenbou famicase by Kai Werder. Watch a short trailer (1 min.) about A Train Ride Home.
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Painting with Numbers
Painting with Numbers is a multiplayer spreadsheet guessing game where players recreate famous paintings using only numbers on a 5×5 grid. Made and played entirely using Google Sheets. Created for the 9-5jam.exe Game Jam, a game jam where only everyday office applications can be used (no game engines allowed!). Watch a short trailer (1 min.) about Painting with Numbers.
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Goalie Snap!
Goalie Snap! is a two-player penalty shootout game where your phone’s camera boundaries are the goal posts and the player’s head is the ball. All that is needed to play are 2 players and a smartphone with a camera. Created for Factory Reset Jam #2, a game jam where only apps pre-installed on phones can be used. Watch a short trailer (1 min.) about Goalie Snap. Collaborators: Chad Toprak
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Transient Threads
Transient Threads is a participatory installation about unravelling your emotions. Participants are invited to reflect on their feelings in response to world events that have been happening in the last six months, and then weave their emotional journey using biodegradable tape around the six pillars of the pavilion: Courage Care Anger Fear Sadness Surprise After unravelling their emotions in the space, participants can choose to complete an intention card by writing down a simple action they can take to address those feelings. Over three days, the installation grows to become a visual snapshot of the community’s spectrum of feelings, captured one thread at a time. Presented at MPavilion Parkville from 21–23 May 2024. Collaborator: Chad Toprak Photos credit: Emma Byrnes
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Pirate Doodle-Doo
Pirate Doodle-Doo is a piratey co-op drawing game for 2–5 players. You and your pirate crew are in search of legendary treasure, and its map is guarded by a ferocious but sleeping dragon. To communicate without waking the dragon? You must draw like a pirate! Watch a short trailer (45 sec.) about Pirate Doodle-Doo. Made in 48 hours, Pirate Doodle-Doo was made as part of the Melbourne Global Game Jam 2024 in 2024 in response to the theme MAKE ME LAUGH. Collaborators: Chad Toprak
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Lucky Clover
Lucky Clover is a print-and-play cardgame for 2-4 players. In a game reminiscent of Dominoes and Dots and Boxes, players have to strategically flip, shift, rotate, and swap tiles to form as many lucky clovers as they can. How many lucky clovers can you find? Lucky Clover was created for A Game By Its Cover 2023, an annual game jam where participants turn a fictional cartridge art from the My Famicase Exhibition into a real thing. Originally inspired by the Lucky Clover famicase by nozakiworks. Watch a short trailer (1 min.) about Lucky Clover.
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Moonscope
Moonscope is a print-and-play memory cardgame for 2-4 players. Taking on the new role of celestial matchmaker and using your handy L-073 telescope, search for lost moons across the galaxy and connect them to lonely planets based on their unique attributes. Moonscope was created for A Game By Its Cover 2023, an annual game jam where participants turn a fictional cartridge art from the My Famicase Exhibition into a real thing. Originally inspired by the Moon Scope famicase by Ryan McKnight. The game was later exhibited as part of the Feminine Play exhibition from 4-18 October 2024 at Carlisle Street Arts Space, St Kilda Town Hall. Watch a short trailer (1 min.) about Moonscope.
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Alt-Shift-Play
Alt-Shift-Play is an exhibition of contemporary Australian independent videogames. From critical hits to rare gems, the exhibition featured over twenty playable games made by Australian independent game-makers. The exhibition aims to highlight and celebrate the alternative and ever-shifting landscape of Australian independent games for Malaysia’s game development community, game design students, families, and children. Created in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian High Commission in Malaysia, Alt-Shift-Play was held at Muzium Telekom in Kuala Lumpur from 2-4 December 2022. The exhibition attracted over 2,500 attendees across the three days. For this project, my roles included: Assisting the production, installation, monitoring, and bump-out of the exhibition Designing the visual identity and branding, including website graphics, social media assets, and exhibition materials (labels, posters, banners & postcards) Editing the trailer and talk videos Preparing and facilitating a hands-on game jam workshop with participants Lead Team: Chad Toprak (Creative Producer & Curator), Helen Kwok (Visual Artist & Assistant Producer) & Hsin Yang Ho (Venue & Hardware Liaison)
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Quite Contrary
Freeplay Independent Games Festival Awards 2024: Finalist (Experimental Game Award) Quite Contrary is an outdoors cardgame for 1-4 players. Best played outside in a local park, garden, plaza, street or laneway, the game is about exploring and noticing your everyday environment to seek objects that best match the playful opposite prompts on each card. The game is available to play online or as a printed card deck. Made in 48 hours, Quite Contrary was made as part of the Australian Global Game Jam Online in 2022 in response to the theme DUALITY. Collaborators: Chad Toprak
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Rainbow Paths
Freeplay Independent Games Festival Awards 2024: Finalist (Non-Digital Game Award) Rainbow Paths is a series of installations that transforms the ground into modular and site-specific playscapes. Each activation invites children, families, and adults to play the mini-games embedded into the installation and follow the colourful branching paths. The mini-games encourage the public to play, sing, dance, clap, listen, and observe their way through the installation, searching for hidden objects and noticing the environment along the way. Each marker is socially-distanced, with the game’s rules written on each marker. No props or devices are needed to play the games. Simply bring along a playful mindset, pick a starting point, and let your imagination guide you through the branching paths. Rainbow Paths have been commissioned and installed in the following forms and locations: Rainbow Bird Playground – Bunjil Place Plaza Rainbow Laneway – Degraves St (as part of Moomba Festival 2021) Rainbow Paths – 4 Ballarat St, Brunswick (as part of the Assemble Papers Mind the Gap Party) Rainbow Paths – State Library Victoria (as part of Playable City Melbourne) Rainbow Paths: Library Edition – Elizabeth St Pop-Up Library Rainbow Paths: Dinosaur Edition – Perth Cultural Centre Rainbow Paths: Love Edition – […]
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