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Pippin Barr alludes to the creative possibilities of games by breaking Breakout
The possibility and fragility of videogames.
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Best Chess uses all its computational power just to mess with your mind
The computer is thinking…
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Pippin Barr’s virtual art gallery contains no art, but lots of questions
When 3D spaces were popularized in videogames it led to a new kind of energy bubbling up through creative pores. Those who worked within the medium had a whole new avenue to explore—all this extra space, and what to do with it? No longer did illusions have be figured out, but actual working 3D space
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Let’s Play: The Shining pays homage to the horror film’s most intense scenes
Fans of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s horror-drama The Shining have obsessed over the finer details for years. You don’t have to search for long to find some of the wilder theories. There’s an hour-long documentary called “The Shining Code” about how people have decoded me
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A videogame about being a parent is as stressful as it should be
If you’re a parent, or have been a parent, then Pippin Barr’s Jostle Parent will be a familiar experience. If you—like me—haven’t had kids of your own yet, then this will only put you off the idea completely. It’s what Barr rightly determines a more tragic riff on the concept behind Octodad: Dadlies
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This week’s Playlist pick: Sound System II
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. SOUND SYSTEM II (BROWSER) BY PIPPIN BARR Music and videogames go together like peanut butter and jelly: the visceral experience of play magnified by an equally sensorial accompaniment. In So
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Gameplay becomes a musical instrument in Sound System II
What does a videogame sound like? That’s the question Pippin Barr has been trialing as of late. It might seem absurd at first—we know what games sound like, don’t we?—but he doesn’t refer to diegetic sounds or sound effects that go towards making a convincing world. What he is interested in is the i
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What We Did asks you to sympathize with the criminal’s plight
Pippin Barr’s latest game puts you on the wrong side of a Carmen Sandiego chase.
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Be complicit in the post-modern monomyth with this art gallery simulator
Full title, no joke: Let’s Play: Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Art Edition Edition.
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Pippin Barr made a sound system that’s only as pretty as you let it be
Pippin Barr takes on Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. The results are as noisy as you want.
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A new game tackles The Secret, the Oprah-approved Satanist manifesto of our time
Will yourself to happy.
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Pippin Barr wants you to feel the pain for a longer Duration
The game maker Pippin Barr once wrote a fantastic article for us on his experience playing Painstation, a modification of the classic game Pong, which whips you, burns you, and/or shocks you when you miss. That should give you an idea of the type of games he makes. That’s the type of game Durations