Pippin Barr 🤔
@pippinbarr.bsky.social
Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing. https://pippinbarr.com https://waysofplaying.games
The Zium Railway's featured artists: @worldenddisk.com @charlottemadelon.bsky.social @sweaterparrot.bsky.social @farfama.bsky.social @gemstonez.bsky.social @yulelepalacios.bsky.social @pippinbarr.bsky.social @zilasaule.bsky.social, world by @jpotterfield.bsky.social and curated by @pawsmenu.info
Base Man by @pippinbarr.bsky.social on display as part of The Zium Railway available September 13th 2026. www.thezium.art/theziumrailway
@hollowponds.bsky.social @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Now we understand what you meant by "marathon mode strategy."
@radiatoryang.bsky.social Unity's standard ragdoll wizard does not have a penis bone field so the penis cannot flap around; also the model I am using doesn't have a penis. I feel like you're the only person I can report this to.
I feel like I've learned something about Bluesky's sexuality today
Something to read: Cornerstone by Michael Berto / @pawsmenu.info. One the best things I read last year. Exactly my favourite kind of magical, strange, sci-fi-ish, characterful, perfect length novella. I loved it. (You can find this on "Big River Website" as well.) pawsmenu.itch.io/cornerstone
Cornerstone by Paws Menu
a story about construction
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Maybe it would be easier to stay at home eating spaghetti in a hotel robe.
CHESSES 4 NEEDS YOU! TO MAKE A MOVE IN CORRESPONDENCE CHESS! pippinbarr.com/chesses4/
Chesses 4
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NEW GAME: CHESSES 4 Yep, eight more chesses! Including travelator, correspondence, and slooooooooooow. pippinbarr.com/chesses4/info
Playing Wilmot Works It Out for the... manyth time. It is just so, so good.
Are water splashes really all that important? Ran a class discussion featuring @pippinbarr.bsky.social's always cool "v r 3" water museum recently and started thinking about the cottage industry of videos angrily comparing "little details" and "immersion" across games. www.patf.io/this-is-not-...
This Is Not Water
Does it matter when a game says something doesn't matter? This week in my "Video Games and Language" class, we read from Pippin Barr's The Stuff Games are Made Of (available open-access!). It's an ex...
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Very excited to be doing this! Come if you can!
UCLA Game Lab@uclagames.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin us Tuesday 4/28 at 5pm in the EDA to hear @pippinbarr.bsky.social speak on Playing the Variation Game: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Game Design. This lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Pippin "Newsletter" Barr now has a newsletter. Plan is fortnightly general updates on how things are going, and then release announcements of projects as they flow by. It's about as social media as I think I'm capable! Join me! pippinbarr.com/newsletter/
Pippin Barr! Newsletter!
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Featuring @pippinbarr.bsky.social SNAKISMS 2: Snakes We Live By, Volume 1: A-M: "Agroterrorism! Snakisms! Escapism! Snakisms! Monotheism! Idealism! Snakisms! Snakisms! It’s all Snake to me!"
Waxy.org@waxy.org · 9mo agoGame Poems: like The HTML Review, a new publication of experimental interactive code poetry https://www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
Check out the marvellous Game Poems magazine! Yes, I have a little something in there, and, yes, it lives up to the dream of publications that manage to include (and be about) interactive/games stuff! www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
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There are a small number of these rather incredible bundles of booklets by @devolutionbln.bsky.social containing process documentation from my It is as if game series still available. I have them and... they're great! devolution.online/barr-booklet...
new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
