Blippo+

it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like:

“Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”

"Welcome to the Boredome, where us teens talk about whatever we want" A group of trendy teens stand, sit, and pose on a carpeted stage littered with tall boxes decorated with various squiggles

last blippo+ screenshot for now, but incredible craft all throughout in nailing the vibe of so much of these slices of television

Blippo+ Writer Claire L. Evans standing with Game and Creative Director Jona Bechtolt in front of a large red GDC display at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Claire wears a leather jacket and cool shades. Jona wears a brown linen shirt and canvas sneakers. Both are sporting enormous GDC badges. On the floor it says “FESTIVAL OF GAMING” in white letters on a blue starlike shape.

Blippo’s own Claire and Jona (aka @com.y-a-c-h-t.com) are giving a tiny talk today at GDC as part of the Indie Soapbox session, along with some other fabulous devs! Come say hello!

@officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026

schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi...

Blippo+ for Playdate Blippo+ is an over-the-top television experience beamed from the outer limits of the universe.

The Playdate Catalog sale is currently underway, giving you access to the award-winning FMV game Blippo+ for a reduced price. Seriously go check it out because it’s an incredibly special handheld gaming experience unmatched on any console. play.date/games/blippo/

Reviews of some games I played this week!

first up: finally "beat" blippo+!

backloggd.com/u/JuniperThe...

i could argue for hours about how good blippo+ is and WHAT it is. but i don't want to, because it's perfect. instead i'll say that you should watch blippo+ because i love it so fucking much.

Indie Soapbox: Playing it Unsafe | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming Indie Soapbox is the chance for indie devs from diverse backgrounds and projects to come together to share their thoughts, lessons and provocations about indie game dev in this long standing microtalk...

📡 Blippo+ writer @theuniverse.bsky.social, and game/creative director @com.y-a-c-h-t.com will be standing on top of something called the "Indie Soapbox" and giving something called a "microtalk" at GDC. Come say hi!

schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi...

@officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026 #IGF2026

Blippo+ | Switch and Steam Release Date Trailer | Coming Sept 23rd YouTube video by Panic

I finally tried Blippo+ today. Wow, it's everything I wanted it to be! As a TV addict in the 1990s with weirdo sensibilities, I'm completely into it.

youtu.be/3f69DgOfBCU

Blippo+ is one of the best experiences ever. From production to costume to music to actors to animation. Top to bottom, creating a world and interconnected stories. Really makes you want to make something. Probably the biggest must-have in a long while exactly for freaks like me 👍

Save 20% on Blippo+ on Steam Blippo+ is a live-action, off-cable TV simulator. Channel-surf the stars and discover the staticky, radical world of Planet Blip through its soaps, sitcoms, news, weather, and talk shows. But don’t to...

If you are looking for some escapism from the absolute dogshit state of the world, Blippo+ is delightfully weird and beautiful and demands very little of you except maybe to take an edible beforehand

🥹📡❤️

The woman who made Blippo+ weird YouTube video by flow state ~

While it took a village to make it weird 😜 I’m so grateful to get the opportunity to speak about the Telefantasy aspects of @blippo.plus + the backstory of my studio & collaborators youtu.be/zmvlXIzO9K8?...

The woman who made Blippo+ weird YouTube video by flow state ~

I played @blippo.plus, the "cable simulator" game, and was immediately struck by the camp and the craft of it's television shows

I spoke to @telefantasytv.bsky.social (JJ Stratford) to find out how she made it so weird (complimentary)

Our interview made me throw out my script

youtu.be/zmvlXIzO9K8

#MadeWithUnity Nominees - Seumas McNally Grand Prize:
🏆 Baby Steps
🏆 Angeline Era
🏆 Blippo+
🏆 HORSES
🏆 Titanium Court

It was really such an honor to get this award for my first foray into games writing, which, as I say in my speech, was really the summing-up of an enormous collective worldbuilding effort. And from the nicest people in the biz too! May sincerity always prevail ❤️

This is a reminder to you all to play Blippo+ which was one of my favourite games of last year!

Two FMV creators, two methods for crafting non-linear narratives that blur the line between film & games!
📊 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social: spreadsheets & math-driven discovery systems
🔮 @theuniverse.bsky.social: spontaneity & lore-building week by week

📻➡️ podcast.panic.com or wherever you catch pods!

Blippo+ Acceptance Speech for Best Writing! YouTube video by NYVGCC

Last, but certainly not least, @blippo.plus won this year's Herman Melville Award for Best Writing!

Groot fan van wat er mis is met de makers van Blippo+.

I made new launcher animations every single week for the 11-week first run of @blippo.plus!

We wanted to indicate to the user that the app was changing every week, and add little narrative pops.

Playdate’s amazing bc I could make these on the fly the day before launch (sorry again, @mierau.me 😉)!

A silhouette of a woman appears beyond a scrambled TV signal for channel 99, “Zest!” The captions say “Electronic funk with slap bass plays through static”. The channel info reads: Squish Tussle. Sleazy hands squeezing ans squashing.”

Scrambled TV signal within a frame that says ”TURNED ON: Cathode Confessions. Tantric Computing COMING UP”

Through a scrambled but much more clear TV signal, we see a woman’s hand, red nails, caressing an old-fashioned grey computer mouse. The captions read “Yesss…”

Finally, a clear frame. The tip of the red-nailed fingers are lightly resting on the bottom edge of an old-fashioned grey PC keyboard. The captions read “[Faint moaning]”.

Yeah, Blippo+ is the right kind of weird.

Blippo+ | Switch and Steam Release Date Trailer | Coming Sept 23rd YouTube video by Panic

The great thing about being sick is that I can just watch blippo plus. It's retro futuristic cable tv for aliens and I love it. I think it's a game? Or maybe it's not, but it's super indie anyway. It's fun to explore the channels.

youtu.be/3f69DgOfBCU?...

📻NEW on the Panic Podcast: Creators @theuniverse.bsky.social and @mrsambarlow.bsky.social talk about the alchemy that combines movie magic with the interactivity of video games, and what (if anything) makes a “good” FMV.

🎧Listen now: podcast.panic.com/episodes/s02e02/ or wherever you catch pods!

Blippo+ Blippo+ is a live-action, new wave, off-cable TV simulator. Tune in to channel-surf the stars and discover the staticky, radical world of Planet Blip, where everything is about to get bent. Available ...

As someone who was a big fan of this Retro Cable Simulator project and wanted to make one of his own but didn't have the skill ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDW1... ) finding out that Blippo+ exists makes me extremely happy ( blippo.plus )

let's play w/art disguised as a game!

ive been STOKOED to play this since @theangler.bsky.social tossed me this!! over 100 comedians, artists, musicians, &performers from LA 'sunderground scene made this to get around industry gatekeeping bullshittery.
lets enjoy.

blippo+
9pm CT
twitch.tv/COQUI

Playing(?) Blippo+ today. It's really charming!

A tantalizingly mysterious compact disc bearing the Blippo+ “Electronic Program Guide” logo placed haphazardly among vintage computing-related ephemera.

A tantalizingly mysterious compact disc bearing the Blippo+ “Electronic Program Guide” logo in concert with a tabletop of vintage computing-related ephemera.

Hello vintage computing fans of Southern California! We hid a few Blippo+ Electronic Program Guide Audio Demonstration Discs around the @vcfsocal.bsky.social free tables today! 🤓 Happy hunting!

Debbie Diner offering you the daily special

My comfort character as of late has been Debbie Diner from Countertop on Blippo+! Her characterization was truly written so, so well.

"You can go where ever you want when you know you've got a place to come back to"

Thank Goodness You're Here! and Blippo+ are two of the absolute must-play modern video games, in my opinion.

Herdling is also fantastic.

The Playdate community is so generous, curious, and fun. It welcomed our weird world immediately and makes us think about it in new ways every day. This is such an honor!