.:: A Series of Gunshots, 2015. Pippin Barr ::.

Date: June 2019
Location: Dundee, Scotland
www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/videogames
A Series of Gunshots confronts you with pared-back images of buildings or residential settings. Pressing any key produces a gunshot sound and a flash of light from a window. The pause before the game fades out and then back in to the next scene invites a moment of reflection. Many videogames are designed around the objective to shoot enemies, often with the player looking directly down the barrel of a gun. Designer Pippin Barr made this game to question his own tolerance to this frequent depiction of gun violence in games. He wanted to refocus the player’s attention on the consequences of gun violence in everyday life, away from its use as an element of gameplay in many videogames.