Everest Pipkin

@everest.bsky.social

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Games, software tools, ttrpgs, the handmade web - Barnacle Goose Experiment, World Ending Game - Program Coordinator at Pratt Game Arts - long live the postal service. https://everest-pipkin.com

you go to the loading dock. you are in the loading dock. blank boards and dusty crates. roofed, but open to the air. you may go south to the atrium, north to the train tracks. no one meets you. you expected this. when you took the job, you knew that you would be working alone. go south you go to the atrium. you are in the atrium. a circular room with a glass ceiling. it echoes. you may go up to the apartments, south to the warehouse 0, east to the warehouse 1, west to the warehouse 2, north to the loading dock. it's not so late out. there is still light in the sky. go up you go to the apartments. you are in the apartments. foyer to your small set of rooms. you may go down to the atrium, west to the kitchen, east to the bedroom, up to the balcony. go to kitchen you go to the kitchen. you are in the kitchen. a functional space, for cooking, eating, writing, and relaxing. you may go east to the apartments.
I WANT A GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOMEPAGE I WANT A GAME I CAN DOWNLOAD AND EDIT ON MY COMPUTER I WANT A GAME THAT LIVES IN AN IFRAME I WANT A GAME I CAN INSPECT WITH THE CONSOLE LOG I WANT A GAME WHERE I CAN HIT CONTROL-A AND SELECT EVERY HTML OBJECT ON THE SCREEN I WANT A GAME MADE OF HOTLINKED IMAGES FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS I WANT A GAME THAT RUNS ON A PHONE FROM 2011 I WANT A GAME MADE OF 1000 <a> TAGS I WANT A GAME I CAN COPY-PASTE FROM I WANT A GAME WITH A GUESTBOOK I WANT A GAME THAT IS A WEBSITE, NOT ON A WEBSITE
you are delivered to the warehouse of the gods with a coat and a letter. you tumble out beside the tracks. so begins your 100 days in the warehouse of the gods. look you are at the train tracks. long line into the distance at the train tracks there is a bird, a coat and a letter. it's not so late out. there is still light in the sky. look at coat you look at the coat. smelly, furred go where would you like to go? you may go: south to the loading dock
a great pyrenees among tall grasses and flowers, sketched in black and white. a lot of the drawing is white space
a blurry (blob) person in front of a different kind of blurry (early 200s camera glitch) background
a black and white drawing of plants arching up over a low table. very detailed
a live oak tree in a black and white, detailed drawing
pratt game arts senior showcase at wonderville sunday may 17 3-6
closeups of the tea moon drawing - the house
open image in new tab
a bird scare balloon floats over tea fields. a modernist house sits in the background and tunnels are in the foreground under the leaves
a drawing of a river cuts into a high desert landscape
a map of pax east - pratt game arts is picked out at booth 21104
5 - 6 week fully funded residencies in the high desert of southern New Mexico. Offering a gift of creative sanctuary for artists, writers, musicians and craft practioners across discipline. 2026 residency dates now open for application at belltowerhouse.org
an image of the browser extension running on a monitor in a room - it's open to the page "erosion" - it has been eroded. image taken by Fenja Cambeis
small orange dots (representing the infinite stars in the universe) slowly populate the frame to fill a night sky. the image has a distinct photoshop circa mid 2000s aesthetic
8 covers of student projects!
3 students sit behind a booth table in front of a high score table!
classic three act structure chart, with "please boo" as the caption
friendship ending with WORLDBUILDING now MEANINGFUL CLOSURE is my best friend
6/3/25 - In an era of slop / make aalittle thing out of clay Last month, I was invited to give a short commencement speech to the Parson’s Design & Tech BFA graduates. This was a… challenge, this year, but also meant a lot to me. The edited and cleaned up version of this speech follows.
people sit down at monitors displaying a series of student games
pratt game arts senior showcase sunday may 18th 3 to 6 pm "wonderville 1186 broadway
HIGH ON WEBSITES poster - April 20th, 5-8pm, LARPA, Brooklyn
found cat poster says : Too Angry To Determine Gender
a screenshot of a tweet from 2022: i don't want to be visible i want to live to be very old, respected by my community, sitting in my garden let me be an actual trans elder not just playing the role because i made it past 30
some people demoing their game on an arcade cabinet!
hundreds of people gather around a speaker at 35th street in the dark. trans, palestinian, and lebanese flags fly. a few signs are visible
Here Lies @everest's Cohost Archive ~ active from 2022 to 2024 ~ resting for eternity, here, in this poorly constructed website May You Enjoy These Posts 2022-04-08T07:27:07.949Z ------ more importantly i have just now this very moment arranged to buy this sheep
senior projects playtest poster - 2pm to 5pm
Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup Skip to tag selection This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although I’ve included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional. The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens.
aurora - big green- from the air
the boot screen of a fantasy OS