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Chad Toprak, Game Designer and Curator, Independent

Chad Toprak is an award-winning experimental game designer and independent curator based in Melbourne, Australia. He makes playful installations, public art, alternative controllers, and experimental games. A champion of game-making as arts practice, Chad encourages the making and playing of games in social and public spaces with the aim of demystifying the cultural richness of the artform. Since 2023, he has been serving as Games Investment Manager at Screen Australia, funding and supporting Australian independent games.

Chad is a former Artistic Director of Freeplay, the world’s longest-running independent games festival, and ½ of the Hovergarden collective. His past exhibitions include Contours (2016 & 2017) and Alt-Shift-Play (2022). Chad was named in Develop Pacific’s inaugural 30 Under Thirty list for 2018, GamesIndustry.biz’s Game Changers 2020 list, and was awarded a 2021 Australian Game Developer Award. His works have been exhibited at festivals and events around the world.

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