Making The Shining funny and ordinary parenting scary with Pippin Barr

Sup Holmes every Sunday at 4pm EST!

_{[Sup Holmes is a weekly talk show for people that make great videogames. It airs live every Sunday at 4pm EST on , and can be found in Podcast form on  and .]}

Last time on Sup Holmes, we welcomed Professor Pippin Barr to the program. Pippin has been making small, “artsy” games for years now. In fact, he even made a game called . But is Art Game an “Art Game”? That’s a topic I couldn’t help but broach, even at the risk of annoying our guest with my over attention to semantics and unnecessarily class distinctions in delineating communication methods. It was a hoot!

Pippin was extremely insightful and forthcoming, maneuvering between a decidedly New Zealand-flavored humility and a unquenchable excitement for videogames. I share Pippin’s excitement about games, including his games, which made for an occasional battle between an Excitement-type game journalist and a Humble-type game developer. I think you’ll find that my rant about how much I love Pippin’s game was super effective. 

We also talked about Dadaism, how much it changes your sense of purpose and 🌃ownership when you start selling your work, what it is about games that fascinates him, how to harness the everyday experience of parenting into an exercise in survival horror, and a lot more. 

Thanks again to Pipping for being on the show, and make sure to tune in today at 4pm EST when we welcome Kim Voll to the program.