Browsers as a Playground with Pippin Barr
Browsers as a Playground with Pippin Barr
This was an office hours with Pippin Barr, held on on March 30!
Pippin walked us through some of the philosophy behind their work (as well as a few student projects) - that demonstrate exploring the limitations of the browser-based libraries available to artists. This was a discord called that was meant to be also streamed on Twitch (but OBS did not connect to twitch for this stream :(( )
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Pippin Barr is an experimental game designer and Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University. He is a prolific maker of videogames, producing work addressing everything from airplane safety instructions to the nature of videogames and videogame technologies. He is a well-known figure in the independent and artistic videogame scenes, makes his source code and process documentation publicly available via his presence on GitHub. Pippin is the co-host of the podcast GAMETHING and his forthcoming book, The Stuff Games Are Made Of (2023, MIT Press), discusses videogame design from the perspective of its materials. Pippin's website, www.pippinbarr.com, organizes his diverse activities into a central location.