Pippin Barr

I'm pretty sure it is a sort of art game / digital experience. Compare with "it is as if you were making love"[1] by the same creator, which gives a sex-inspired series of input tasks with an extremely barebones interface yet claims to be a "usable and efficient experience of pleasuring a partner". [1] https://pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweremakinglove/

From the same creator (so funny): https://pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweremakinglove/

Pippin Barr is a master of deconstructing and subverting everything we know about gaming. https://pippinbarr.com/lets-play-ancient-greek-punishment/info/ is another favorite, and https://pippinbarr.com/sibilant-snakelikes/info/ is similar to the submission but using snake instead of pong. Tons of good stuff to explain on the site though!

He's made a few other "variations on a classic" games: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/breaksout/ http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/pongs/Pongs.html

Graphical representations are there to draw you in, but once you are there, the representation isn't as meaningful. Tetris remains a wonderful game whether you play it on a Game Boy or on hardware today. The hats thing is about people meeting certain status motivational needs. Reiss' 16 Desires indicates that people seek status, and hats confer it. There's also a desire for collection, which hats also offer. You'll find many people who go "why do you care about hats? They don't change the game." For them, their desire for how they look or what they have isn't as meaningful. I'm hesitant to say "Reiss' 16 Desires is definitely correct" as all psychology is essentially pretty soft, but it does provide a useful framework for games motivation analysis, which is what I am currently supposed to be writing my PhD thesis on instead of procrastinating on HN :) Some skins do confer gameplay bonus, even if they don't do it mechanically. League of Legends sells skins, and when you see someone with a champion with a skin on, you know they like that champion. It provides "skintimidation" to the other team. I don't go as far as Aarseth in terms of rejecting aesthetics or narratives. I like that we have these things, and I like that they are better than they once were. I think most people feel that way. However, it's not a be-all-and-end-all proposition if you play a game that doesn't have a great story or stretches your moral compass. Those games could be wonderful games. There are…

Related by the same creator https://pippinbarr.com/itisasifyouweredoingwork/ More accessible on desktop.

Reminds me of https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-playing-chess/info/ Except it's It is as if you are reading Twitter

The parent's point being that feeling productive has roughly no correlation with being productive. You can feel very productive with that https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/ game that was recently linked here; but that doesn't mean that you are more productive, and in fact you will be much less-so, because the "work" in the game is meaningless.

It already exists and it's fabulous: https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/

The perfect Seinfeld game already exists: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/thejuniormint/

https://pippinbarr.github.io/chesses/ (doesn't have Pauli Chess, but does have some fun variants)

https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/js/data.js Why are some inspirational quotes commented while others aren't?

If you tried it out and were a little confused, here's a little blog post about the motivation and development of the "game": http://www.pippinbarr.com/words/2017/06/14/narrative-framing-in-it-is-… And some more information in form of a "press" release from the github: https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/master/pre… I found the "game" to be somehow interesting.

var jobTitler = { subject: [ "Screen", //100 "Input", //400 "Dialog", //900 "Interface", //1600 "Data", //2500 "Big Data", //3600 "Choice", //4900 "System", //6400 "Computation", //8100 ], // 9 position: [ "Administrator", //1000 "Technician", //4000 "Engineer", //9000 "Specialist", //16000 "Architect", //25000 "Executive", //36000 ] } https://pippinbarr.github.io/itisasifyouweredoingwork/js/data.js I'm guessing Computation Executive might be the highest if it uses the position field. (Don't have time to see how this data gets used to set the title.)

Barr has also done a bit of ancient Greece: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplayancientgreekpunishment/LetsPla… Updated, touch-oriented version: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/letsplayancientgreekpunishmentlimitede…

This is delightful. I only wish that someone would put it into a nondescript arcade cabinet in a hallway somewhere, so that people could stumble across it unprepared. Edit: Naturally, it turns out that Mr. Barr has a PhD in this sort of thing, and that his thesis has to do with how we demonstrate our values during the course of playing video games. http://www.pippinbarr.com/academic/Pippin_Barr_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Game URL from author's site: https://www.pippinbarr.com/2017/01/25/snakisms/ Life is meaningless!

If you want to play with the trolley problem: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/trolleyproblem/TrolleyProblem.html

from my blog notes on ink see also: " pubcoder[1] or apple ibook(killed) or kotobee or Twine which is from the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. .. and used to make this cool interactive browser experience burnt matches. more here" 1 https://docs.pubcoder.com/new/pubcoder_widgets_intro.html 2 https://www.kotobee.com/blog/how-create-interactive-ebook-guide/ 3 https://twinery.org/ 4 https://pippinbarr.com/games/burntmatches/ 5 https://www.pippinbarr.com/2016/11/29/burnt-matches/