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Lenny probably giving her a hard time...

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Debbie Diner, star of Countertop, only on Blippo + 
Acrylic painting

Debbie Diner, star of Countertop, only on Blippo + Acrylic painting

Debbie Diner

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The Pedal Powered Talk Show - YouTube We've taken the classic talk show format and built it into a cargo bike. With our pedal-powered production studio we can go anywhere and do anything; from ta...

my friend boaz did a cargo bike as late night desk: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The Contagion of Reality – NEWS.KMIKEYM.COM Kill Screen uses Tottenham Hotspur, Roger Caillois, and capitalism’s effect on sports to argue that capitalist structures corrupt play by rupturing a game’s magic circle. But we claim finance can oper...

Money doesn't corrupt games. Distracted players do.

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The wonderful @play.date community were the original Bendonauts—the first people to visit Planet Blip when Blippo+ surprise launched on #Playdate! We’re so grateful to their enthusiasm for our world, and really honored to have won two Playdate Community Awards! Thank you!

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a proud wacko :)

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transporters pull it out of you? saves space for bigger jeffries tubes...

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jona could not stop laughing about posthog

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i only want those NEW crystals

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Indie Game Art Gallery & Tea Bar · Luma As GDC continues to turn its attention to corporations rather than the very people developing the games, Meha and I are throwing this party as an appreciation…

For friends at GDC: we brought a few albums of Blippo+ behind-the-scenes snaps to this very lovely indie game art gallery (and tea bar!) happening today!

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So neat to see Blippo+ on display with all these wonderful indie games! 🥲

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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+ 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...

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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

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Jona's new installation is four microwaves spinning on a platter, each displaying video of something inside a microwave. I think it's about the screen we all stopped watching, and why that might be the most forward-thinking subject an artist can choose right now.

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A flyer for an event called “DEAD MEDIA CHAT ROOM.” It features a very cool vintage illustration of some old computers slowly sinking into a primordial tar pit. The event is from 12-5:30 on March 1st, at Wilshire Online, 6135 Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles.

A flyer for an event called “DEAD MEDIA CHAT ROOM.” It features a very cool vintage illustration of some old computers slowly sinking into a primordial tar pit. The event is from 12-5:30 on March 1st, at Wilshire Online, 6135 Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles.

A second, more detailed flyer for the “Dead Media Chat Room” event at Wilshire Online on March 1st. The full lineup reads: 

Joanne McNeil, on MySpace
Claire L. Evans, on 35mm slides
Jackie Forsyte, on shortwave radio
Peggy Weil, on obsolete works
Azad Namazie, on floppy discs
Zack Oldenburg, on dreams
Dick Heiser, on LA’s first computer store
Michael J. Masucci, on early adoption
Sophia Weltman, on melancholia
Resonant.love, on repair

A second, more detailed flyer for the “Dead Media Chat Room” event at Wilshire Online on March 1st. The full lineup reads: Joanne McNeil, on MySpace Claire L. Evans, on 35mm slides Jackie Forsyte, on shortwave radio Peggy Weil, on obsolete works Azad Namazie, on floppy discs Zack Oldenburg, on dreams Dick Heiser, on LA’s first computer store Michael J. Masucci, on early adoption Sophia Weltman, on melancholia Resonant.love, on repair

An invitation to any LA-based friends On Here: this Sunday is the first Dead Media Chat Room, an informal symposium about archaic technologies and new rituals to revive them, at our office on Wilshire. Co-presented with Wilshire Online and my friends at TAPE Los Angeles:

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Blippo+ Acceptance Speech for Best Writing!
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!

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The Blippo+ Original Soundtrack is just $5 today only! ♫ GET BENT!

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incredibly excited that we have a version of Blippo+ for all my mac friends!

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not only did we win, but i achieved an executive producer's dream when @theuniverse.bsky.social said my name on stage

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🏆 Blipoo+ writer Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) is up for Best Writing in a Game at the NY Game Awards (@nyvgcc.bsky.social) this weekend!

See you in New York!
www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...

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holy shit! guess i'll see you at GDC!

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as an executive producer there is no higher praise for working on a project than getting a mention in @forbes.com

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You see better television on Blippo+ #MelArt

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Sam Brown, Atari Release Manager, shared his top 5 of 2025 with us!

"Lab Rat gave me the same feeling as when I played Portal 2 for the first time, incredibly clever puzzles mixed with equally incredibly funny writing!"

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Thank you @theavclubgames.bsky.social for including Blippo+ as one of the best games of 2025! 📡❤️

www.avclub.com/best-games-2...

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i know the person who wrote one of these games!

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me too!

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as a visual thinker the graphic helps me build a mental model which then helps me understand the text. i like it. the fact that it was made quickly means it's more likely people will do this, which is a good thing! yay! progress!

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I wonder if it would work the other way... can i be reminded of what I was planning to make for dinner when i take a break to play with the computer?

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The artist, presumably, has moved on. The onion rings, presumably, have not survived the week. But the image persists... a quiet koan in an era of noise.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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