Helen Kwok
@helenkwok.bsky.social
✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her)
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations
✨ https://helenkwok.net
Hello! @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I will be hosting a Traces of Play workshop next weekend at Footscray Community Arts! ✨ It'll be super chill & the games we play won't be too strenuous on the body. 🧘🏻♀️
📅 Sat 29 Nov 2025
🕐 1-2:30pm
🎟️ Book a free tix (limited spots): footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
📅 Sat 29 Nov 2025
🕐 1-2:30pm
🎟️ Book a free tix (limited spots): footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Hello! @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I will be hosting a Traces of Play workshop next weekend at Footscray Community Arts! ✨ It'll be super chill & the games we play won't be too strenuous on the body. 🧘🏻♀️
📅 Sat 29 Nov 2025
🕐 1-2:30pm
🎟️ Book a free tix (limited spots): footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
📅 Sat 29 Nov 2025
🕐 1-2:30pm
🎟️ Book a free tix (limited spots): footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
Thank you everyone for coming along to our exhibition launch today! ☺️💛 @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I feel so grateful and loved! 🥹✨
(I totally forgot to take any photos but it was so lovely to see people playing in the playspace of Traces of Play and adding a game to the wall 🥰)
(I totally forgot to take any photos but it was so lovely to see people playing in the playspace of Traces of Play and adding a game to the wall 🥰)
October 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Thank you everyone for coming along to our exhibition launch today! ☺️💛 @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I feel so grateful and loved! 🥹✨
(I totally forgot to take any photos but it was so lovely to see people playing in the playspace of Traces of Play and adding a game to the wall 🥰)
(I totally forgot to take any photos but it was so lovely to see people playing in the playspace of Traces of Play and adding a game to the wall 🥰)
Finally, a big thank you to our family and friends who contributed their favourite childhood games to the installation, especially my Mum who inspired this project! 🥰
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Finally, a big thank you to our family and friends who contributed their favourite childhood games to the installation, especially my Mum who inspired this project! 🥰
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
📅 17 Sep-13 Dec 2025
🕜 Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm
📍 Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts
ℹ️ footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
Traces of Play is showing as part of We Have Been Called Many Things, an exhibition curated by Curatorial Ensemble, alongside some amazing artists!
📅 17 Sep-13 Dec 2025
🕜 Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm
📍 Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts
ℹ️ footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
Traces of Play is showing as part of We Have Been Called Many Things, an exhibition curated by Curatorial Ensemble, alongside some amazing artists!
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
📅 17 Sep-13 Dec 2025
🕜 Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm
📍 Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts
ℹ️ footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
Traces of Play is showing as part of We Have Been Called Many Things, an exhibition curated by Curatorial Ensemble, alongside some amazing artists!
📅 17 Sep-13 Dec 2025
🕜 Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm
📍 Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts
ℹ️ footscrayarts.com/event/traces...
Traces of Play is showing as part of We Have Been Called Many Things, an exhibition curated by Curatorial Ensemble, alongside some amazing artists!
💛 TRACES OF PLAY 💛 is a participatory installation that celebrates the folk, playground, and street games we used to play. Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social, come subvert these humble everyday objects into magnificent playthings of joy! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
💛 TRACES OF PLAY 💛 is a participatory installation that celebrates the folk, playground, and street games we used to play. Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social, come subvert these humble everyday objects into magnificent playthings of joy! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢
Who's interested in going to this after Freeplay today?
July 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Who's interested in going to this after Freeplay today?
I made a new game zine! 👀 Colour match TINY KAMI ("little spirits") with objects in your surroundings to find them all! 🩷⭐🔷🟢🟪
heyitshelen.itch.io/tiny-kami
❄️ Created for Sticky Institute's Winter Zine Game Jam.
✨ Physical copies available at Sticky Institute for a limited time.
heyitshelen.itch.io/tiny-kami
❄️ Created for Sticky Institute's Winter Zine Game Jam.
✨ Physical copies available at Sticky Institute for a limited time.
June 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I made a new game zine! 👀 Colour match TINY KAMI ("little spirits") with objects in your surroundings to find them all! 🩷⭐🔷🟢🟪
heyitshelen.itch.io/tiny-kami
❄️ Created for Sticky Institute's Winter Zine Game Jam.
✨ Physical copies available at Sticky Institute for a limited time.
heyitshelen.itch.io/tiny-kami
❄️ Created for Sticky Institute's Winter Zine Game Jam.
✨ Physical copies available at Sticky Institute for a limited time.
May 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Finally built up the courage to watch my recorded talk at Freeplay last year. Cried and sobbed again. Feeling so disheartened that hardly anything has improved since June last year. In fact, the world has just gotten shittier, and sometimes you can't help but ask yourself... what's the point?
May 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Finally built up the courage to watch my recorded talk at Freeplay last year. Cried and sobbed again. Feeling so disheartened that hardly anything has improved since June last year. In fact, the world has just gotten shittier, and sometimes you can't help but ask yourself... what's the point?
The 'Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle' is now live! Over 200 videogames, TTRPGs, zines, books, soundtracks, and asset packs for just $16 USD - the current base price for a 3GB eSim.
itch.io/b/2965/crips...
(You'll find Quite Contrary and A Train Ride Home in the bundle as well!)
itch.io/b/2965/crips...
(You'll find Quite Contrary and A Train Ride Home in the bundle as well!)
April 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The 'Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle' is now live! Over 200 videogames, TTRPGs, zines, books, soundtracks, and asset packs for just $16 USD - the current base price for a 3GB eSim.
itch.io/b/2965/crips...
(You'll find Quite Contrary and A Train Ride Home in the bundle as well!)
itch.io/b/2965/crips...
(You'll find Quite Contrary and A Train Ride Home in the bundle as well!)
🍂 MEMORIES OF PLAY 🌳
heyitshelen.itch.io/memories-of-...
An interactive poem about a walk through Narrm and how the everyday objects remind us of the Hong Kong & Turkish street games our parents used to play.
Created by @helenkwok.bsky.social & @chadtoprak.bsky.social for @nowplaythis.bsky.social!
heyitshelen.itch.io/memories-of-...
An interactive poem about a walk through Narrm and how the everyday objects remind us of the Hong Kong & Turkish street games our parents used to play.
Created by @helenkwok.bsky.social & @chadtoprak.bsky.social for @nowplaythis.bsky.social!
April 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🍂 MEMORIES OF PLAY 🌳
heyitshelen.itch.io/memories-of-...
An interactive poem about a walk through Narrm and how the everyday objects remind us of the Hong Kong & Turkish street games our parents used to play.
Created by @helenkwok.bsky.social & @chadtoprak.bsky.social for @nowplaythis.bsky.social!
heyitshelen.itch.io/memories-of-...
An interactive poem about a walk through Narrm and how the everyday objects remind us of the Hong Kong & Turkish street games our parents used to play.
Created by @helenkwok.bsky.social & @chadtoprak.bsky.social for @nowplaythis.bsky.social!
Do it! 😊 I almost wanted to include this as well... (technically they're not really games they feel like games to me)
March 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Do it! 😊 I almost wanted to include this as well... (technically they're not really games they feel like games to me)
Introduce yourself in 4 games.
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Introduce yourself in 4 games.
Created for A Game By Its Cover 2024 - an annual game jam where you turn a fictional cartridge from the My Famicase Exhibition into a real thing. famicase.com/24/index.html
Inspired by the zenmen tenbou famicase by @kaimor.bsky.social.
#agbic #agbic24
Inspired by the zenmen tenbou famicase by @kaimor.bsky.social.
#agbic #agbic24
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Created for A Game By Its Cover 2024 - an annual game jam where you turn a fictional cartridge from the My Famicase Exhibition into a real thing. famicase.com/24/index.html
Inspired by the zenmen tenbou famicase by @kaimor.bsky.social.
#agbic #agbic24
Inspired by the zenmen tenbou famicase by @kaimor.bsky.social.
#agbic #agbic24
Made this tiny game at the end of last year! 💜🧡💛
🛤 A TRAIN RIDE HOME 🛤 is a solo role-playing game about reflecting on life, prompted by the fleeting and impermanent scenery around you.
Designed to be played at home or on a train.
🎴 PLAY GAME: heyitshelen.itch.io/a-train-ride...
#agbic #agbic24
🛤 A TRAIN RIDE HOME 🛤 is a solo role-playing game about reflecting on life, prompted by the fleeting and impermanent scenery around you.
Designed to be played at home or on a train.
🎴 PLAY GAME: heyitshelen.itch.io/a-train-ride...
#agbic #agbic24
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Made this tiny game at the end of last year! 💜🧡💛
🛤 A TRAIN RIDE HOME 🛤 is a solo role-playing game about reflecting on life, prompted by the fleeting and impermanent scenery around you.
Designed to be played at home or on a train.
🎴 PLAY GAME: heyitshelen.itch.io/a-train-ride...
#agbic #agbic24
🛤 A TRAIN RIDE HOME 🛤 is a solo role-playing game about reflecting on life, prompted by the fleeting and impermanent scenery around you.
Designed to be played at home or on a train.
🎴 PLAY GAME: heyitshelen.itch.io/a-train-ride...
#agbic #agbic24
"It's... alrightttttttt." 🤣🤣🤣
January 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"It's... alrightttttttt." 🤣🤣🤣
"It looks like someone else. 😅" -- @chadtoprak.bsky.social
January 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"It looks like someone else. 😅" -- @chadtoprak.bsky.social
As part of my anniversary gift to @chadtoprak.bsky.social, I bought us two canvases and some acrylic paints to paint each other. These were the results. 😂 I blame the shitty anko paints from Kmart, and the fact that we don't really know what we're doing (we're not professional painters). 🤣
January 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
As part of my anniversary gift to @chadtoprak.bsky.social, I bought us two canvases and some acrylic paints to paint each other. These were the results. 😂 I blame the shitty anko paints from Kmart, and the fact that we don't really know what we're doing (we're not professional painters). 🤣
Pleasantly surprised to see @amazefest.bsky.social feature this in their latest newsletter 🩷🦩✨
Support the campaign:
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Support the campaign:
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December 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Pleasantly surprised to see @amazefest.bsky.social feature this in their latest newsletter 🩷🦩✨
Support the campaign:
www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...
Support the campaign:
www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...
Created for the 9-5jam.exe Game Jam, where only everyday office applications can be used to make a game (no game engines allowed)!
December 16, 2024 at 5:24 AM
Created for the 9-5jam.exe Game Jam, where only everyday office applications can be used to make a game (no game engines allowed)!
🤩 Introducing... 🖼 PAINTING WITH NUMBERS 🎨, a multiplayer *spreadsheet* guessing game where players recreate famous paintings using only numbers on a 5x5 grid.
Made and played entirely using Google Sheets. 🤣
For 2+ players. 👥
Download a copy: heyitshelen.itch.io/painting-wit...
Made and played entirely using Google Sheets. 🤣
For 2+ players. 👥
Download a copy: heyitshelen.itch.io/painting-wit...
December 16, 2024 at 5:24 AM
🤩 Introducing... 🖼 PAINTING WITH NUMBERS 🎨, a multiplayer *spreadsheet* guessing game where players recreate famous paintings using only numbers on a 5x5 grid.
Made and played entirely using Google Sheets. 🤣
For 2+ players. 👥
Download a copy: heyitshelen.itch.io/painting-wit...
Made and played entirely using Google Sheets. 🤣
For 2+ players. 👥
Download a copy: heyitshelen.itch.io/painting-wit...
Me, after making another tiny game over the weekend 😴😅👀
December 15, 2024 at 11:06 PM
Me, after making another tiny game over the weekend 😴😅👀
@chadtoprak.bsky.social & I are so grateful to not only reflect on some of our past playful projects in-situ, but also the political climate here in Narrm... and finally ending our talk with a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
A solid reminder that resistance can take on so many forms. 🙏🏻🇵🇸
A solid reminder that resistance can take on so many forms. 🙏🏻🇵🇸
November 22, 2024 at 12:22 PM
@chadtoprak.bsky.social & I are so grateful to not only reflect on some of our past playful projects in-situ, but also the political climate here in Narrm... and finally ending our talk with a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
A solid reminder that resistance can take on so many forms. 🙏🏻🇵🇸
A solid reminder that resistance can take on so many forms. 🙏🏻🇵🇸
Our talk 'Sites of Resistance: A Walk Through Narrm' for The Overkill Festival is all done! 🏃🏻♀️🇵🇸✊🏻
Thanks @zoewi.bsky.social for inviting us, and The Overkill audience for tuning in. @chadtoprak.bsky.social and I had a wonderful time! 💖🙏🏻✨
Thanks @zoewi.bsky.social for inviting us, and The Overkill audience for tuning in. @chadtoprak.bsky.social and I had a wonderful time! 💖🙏🏻✨
November 22, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Our talk 'Sites of Resistance: A Walk Through Narrm' for The Overkill Festival is all done! 🏃🏻♀️🇵🇸✊🏻
Thanks @zoewi.bsky.social for inviting us, and The Overkill audience for tuning in. @chadtoprak.bsky.social and I had a wonderful time! 💖🙏🏻✨
Thanks @zoewi.bsky.social for inviting us, and The Overkill audience for tuning in. @chadtoprak.bsky.social and I had a wonderful time! 💖🙏🏻✨
So glad to be able to tune into this all the way from Melbourne! Thanks for organising the online stream! ❤
November 20, 2024 at 2:04 AM
So glad to be able to tune into this all the way from Melbourne! Thanks for organising the online stream! ❤