BIO ::

John Popadiuk is an award-winning American pinball designer and artist who is dedicated to keeping the spirit of pinball alive. He has created many classic American-style mechanical pinball machines including: Theatre of Magic for Bally, Tales of the Arabian Nights for Williams, Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End for Disney, Atari Pinball Classics and Heroes vs. Villians for Marvel Entertainmentl.

He started tinkering with wooden boards, nails and rubberbands at the age of six, creating designs to enamor the neighborhood kids.

Currently his interactive design skills are focused on re-inventing the current game of pinball in a way that will bring it back into popular culture as social gaming and casual play is now the norm for millions of fans. Applying a skin from the current "state-of-art" over the current game that has not changed much in the last 30 years is a goal.

John teaches Interactive Toy Design at Columbia College of Art & Design in Chicago, where students are immersed in a hyper-creative, hands-on approach to visualization and concept building.

The Pinball Inventor program was created to provide a custom studio environment and same level of game design for collectors or players who want something new and very remarkable. John's custom games will build this bridge with a feature-rich, ground up wood construction. Hand-drawn artwork, silkscreened playfields, led illuminated pinball toys fitted with John's signature electromagnetic accoutrements and organic rampatures.

Currently John is working on a new custom pinball machine called Magic Girl™.

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