Join Pippin Barr in a noble quest through game design space and conversations with materials by coming up with 100 different versions of the classic card game Go Fish. This workshop is a companion exercise to his DMA Lecture Playing the Variation Game: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Game Design and the design methodology of his forthcoming book of the same name.

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.