I feel like I've learned something about Bluesky's sexuality today
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
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 · 4mo 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 · 7mo 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
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
Really enjoyed being a (tiny and then nothing at all) part of this very cool project!
💤🌵🤖@boringcactus.com · 9mo agoThe 1953 artwork Erased de Kooning Drawing was created by Robert Rauschenberg out of a drawing by Willem de Kooning. The 2025 game Deleted Pippin Barr Game was created by cactus out of a game by Pippin Barr. somnolentsucculentstudio.itch.io/deleted-pipp...
GAME IDEA Top half and bottom half of the same game sold separately
GAME IDEA LO-FI HIP HOP YOU'RE ON A SILENT HILL AND IT'S RAINING IN THE OTHER ROOM
GAME IDEA EMPTY YOUR CLIP OF EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENTATION INTO THE FACES OF YOUR OPPONENTS YES THAT'S RIGHT IT'S A FIRST-PERSON MOOTER