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-...

Very excited to be doing this! Come if you can!

New game: Play It By Trust (Sky Blue Super Mario Bros.) pippinbarr.com/play-it-by-t...

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/

New game: As Slow As Possible Slow down.

Snake is beautiful. @pippinbarr.bsky.social #art #game #snake

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!"

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/

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!

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 EVERY BUTTON JUST MAKES YOUR AVATAR SIGH

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

GAME IDEA BE RICH, 3D AND BEAUTIFUL IN A BEAUTIFUL, RICHLY 3D WORLD

GAME IDEA BAD DRUMMER

GAME IDEA JOSTLE DIVORCEE

Mr. Game & Matcha

GENTRIFICATION GAME IDEAS CRONUT COUNTY CRAFT MINECRAFT VIEWTIFUL TRADER JOE'S

GAME IDEA NUDE AT THE SLOTS

GAME IDEA COMPETITIVE PAREIDOLIA

GAME IDEA IT IS AS IF YOU WEREN'T

RACY GAME IDEA EURO TRUCK STIMULATOR

GAME IDEA DIRTY DANCING

BIRTHDAY DLC GAME IDEA MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE OBRA DINN

GAME IDEA BIG KITTY LITTLE CITY

GAME IDEA SPEC OPS: THE LINE AS A COSY GAME

GAME IDEA INCY WINCY 3: THIS TIME IT'S HAILING AND ALSO PERSONAL

GAME IDEA YOU HAVE TO LOCATE, PICK UP, AND CARRY ALL THOSE TINY LITTLE BROKEN-OFF PIECES OF STYROFOAM YOU EVER PUT OUT INTO THE WORLD IN YOUR LIFE

GAME IDEA YOUR SUPERPOWER IS THE PHENOMENAL NUMBER OF TIMES YOU CAN HIT SNOOZE AND NOT GET OUT OF BED

GAME IDEA THE ORIGIN STORY OF GRIMACE

GAME IDEA WHEN YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE, YOU DIE IN THE GAME!

PIANOS

GAME IDEA SUPER MARIO AENEID

"Inbox Zzzero" is when you achieve a nice, empty inbox by snoozing everything to tomorrow.

GAME IDEA VIBE SPACECHEM-ING

GAME IDEA ROCK EM SOCK EM FROST/NIXON

GAME IDEA YOU CAN JUMP SUPER HIGH BUT YOUR FINGERNAILS ARE SUPER LONG AND GROSS

GAME IDEA TETRIS BUT UNIONIZED

GAME IDEA HAMLET BUT SET IN WORLD 1-1 OF SUPER MARIO BROS. AND HE'S BATMAN

GAME IDEA POWERWASH YOUR SOUL

GAME IDEA A SERIES OF INTERESTING BUMP MAPS

GAME IDEA EVERY TIME GOD APPLIES A CLOSED-DOOR TEXTURE TO A NON-INTERACTIVE SURFACE HE APPLIES AN OPEN-WINDOW TEXTURE TO A NON-INTERACTIVE SURFACE