Everest Pipkin

A maintenance text adventure about a person living underground in a limestone mine and their work maintaining the local communication network that has sprung up there.

Stemming from a (real!) visit to a decommissioned limestone mine that is now used to house RVs and boats over the winter (and a subsequent phone notification, under several hundred feet of rock, that the space station was visible overhead), Drift Mine Satellite imagines what a post-apocalyptic community life might look like among sleeping vacation vehicles. It is a utopian apocalypse fantasy, a forever-camping world narrowed to linear miles of RVs parked under a mountain, the people who live in them, and the systems that interconnect them, both social and material.

The game was commissioned for Solar Protocol, a network of solar powered servers that connects from whatever server is in the most sunshine. It is programmed for the browser, with low-energy use and computational power front of mind. The entire story is told via spatialized text - no images, no libraries, just divs and textboxes and basic javascript.

Drift Mine Satellite

An abiogenesis body horror idle clicker about a researcher locked in a biodome tasked with generating a working world out of their own body.

The Barnacle Goose Experiment

Anonymous Animal is a 15 minute durational browser poem that runs every hour, on the hour.

Using the somewhat-outdated (and rather unstable) web technology of iframes to load and unload pages on a synced clock, Anonymous Animal guides visitors on a collective walk through links, images, wiki pages, and livestreams across the internet. It is an elegy for the era of cross-origin browser requests and off-site embeddable media, as well as a meditation on still being quietly online, together.

Better with friends- but there's probably someone else here, now, too.

Anonymous Animal

Shell Song is an interactive audio-narrative game about deep-fake voice technologies and the datasets that go into their construction. By considering physical and digital bodies and voices, it asks what a voice is worth, who can own a human sound, and how it feels to come face to face with a ghost of your body that may yet come to outlive you.

Shell Song

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Loren Schmidt

compounding inner-space architecture

spiral house is a small game by everest pipkin with story by loren schmidt.

Everest Pipkin Browser Games

Drift Mine Satellite

The Barnacle Goose Experiment

Anonymous Animal

Shell Song

Spiral House