You are invited to our final Spring DMA Lecture Series Featuring Pippin Barr -
Playing the Variation Game: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Game Design

This DMA Lecture Series is Co-sponsored by Game Lab.
This lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Pippin Barr is an experimental game designer and Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington/Te Herenga Waka and 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 and makes his games, source code and process documentation publicly available via his website pippinbarr.com. His latest book The Stuff Games Are Made Of (The MIT Press, 2023), discusses videogame design as a conversation with materials.