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Pippin Barr 🤔

@pippinbarr.bsky.social
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Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing. pippinbarr.com waysofplaying.games

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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I live to bug!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just so you have it as a reference point
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hehehe. I really loved that one. Was so awesome that Michael was into it.
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The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io · 13/09/2026
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
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The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io · 11/09/2026
Base Man by @pippinbarr.bsky.social on display as part of The Zium Railway available September 13th 2026. www.thezium.art/theziumrailway
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The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io · 12/08/2026
The Zium Railway featured artists are: @worldenddisk.com @charlottemadelon.bsky.social @sweaterparrot.bsky.social @farfama.bsky.social @jpotterfield.bsky.social @gemstonez.bsky.social @yulelepalacios.bsky.social @pawsmenu.info @pippinbarr.bsky.social @zilasaule.bsky.social
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@hollowponds.bsky.social @rickyhaggett.bsky.social Now we understand what you meant by "marathon mode strategy."
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My rendering pipeline has no end
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
@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.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thinking about the orb of men.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I feel like I've learned something about Bluesky's sexuality today
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Only one!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Big Walk. Incredible. Don't wait.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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
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Cornerstone by Paws Menu
a story about construction
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Maybe it would be easier to stay at home eating spaghetti in a hotel robe.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
❤️ !
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm there baby!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
CHESSES 4 NEEDS YOU! TO MAKE A MOVE IN CORRESPONDENCE CHESS! pippinbarr.com/chesses4/
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Chesses 4
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Artot *mais en français*??? artsandculture.google.com/experiment/a...
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Artot. - Google Arts & Culture
Get your fortune read with an Art themed Tarot Deck
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you've done it again: you've ruined chess
Back in 2019, experimental game developer and actual university professor Pippin Barr released a browser game consistin…
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Yes indeed.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Oh this is trickier than I thought since it's apparently an issue in chessboard.js
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Ha! Will fix, thanks. Aaaaalmost love that, but not quite.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
NEW GAME: CHESSES 4 Yep, eight more chesses! Including travelator, correspondence, and slooooooooooow. pippinbarr.com/chesses4/info
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
There's techniques?? (No, we just keep replaying the main story mode. But now I feel we will be looking at marathonery.)
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Playing Wilmot Works It Out for the... manyth time. It is just so, so good.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Amazon Chess
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@ben.kirman.org @oliverbates.co.uk You guys!!!!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thank yoooouuuu! I actually needed this. I'm trying to write a book essentially "about" that whole idea writ large and I'm in a bog.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
That is some beautiful water though eh!
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Patrick Fiorilli @patfio.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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-...
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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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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Oh whoa - this looks amazing! I'll have to take some proper time and read through. Thanks so much for writing it!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Very excited to be doing this! Come if you can!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Ha! Nice!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New game: Play It By Trust (Sky Blue Super Mario Bros.) pippinbarr.com/play-it-by-t...
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Oh well that is just such a delightful and meaningful thing to hear - I'm so glad!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Haha, so huge!!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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/
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Pippin Barr! Newsletter!
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New game: As Slow As Possible Slow down.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Unsure - but reach out to @csongorb.bsky.social here or via that site and he'll let you know :)
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Yadier X @yadierx.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Snake is beautiful. @pippinbarr.bsky.social #art #game #snake
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René Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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!"
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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/
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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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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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...
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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
game screenshot of a sexy guy getting fished out of the watergame screenshot of a sexy shirtless fisherman and behind him a rainbow-flagged Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor transport helicopter flying in the distance dumping hundreds of fresh live sexy men into the lake, replenishing the depleted stocks for the sexy shirtless fisherman's continued enjoyment.
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Waiting for Waiting for Godot!
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 25/11/2025
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...
HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo
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Pippin Barr 🤔 @pippinbarr.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Really enjoyed being a (tiny and then nothing at all) part of this very cool project!
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