Pippin Barr's latest creation, War Game, is a throwback to the handheld LCD games of years gone by. As a lone soldier against a horde of never-ending opponents, you must progress by killing the opposition. When wounded, or after killing enough enemy soldiers, you're submitted to a mandatory psych evaluation. Regardless of your replies to the psychiatrist's questions, you're sent back into battle, and slowly begin to lose your grip on reality.
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Pippin Barr’s War Game is a throwback — glitches and all — to the handheld LCD games of years gone by.
Pippin Barr’s War Game is a throwback — glitches and all — to the handheld LCD games of years gone by.
War Game was supposed simply be “a retro handheld game with a glitch aesthetic,” but in the process the designer fell upon what he calls “shadow twins;” the game inadvertently became an allegory for the problems soldiers face in battle. Barr details his attempts to control the shadow twins in his latest blog post.
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