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Reviews of some games I played this week!

first up: finally "beat" blippo+!

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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!

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@officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026 #IGF2026

Every “Webster’s dictionary defines love as” is going to be replaced by “Claude said love is” at weddings this summer 💀

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 👍

I’ve had a video installation in an abandoned 99 Cents Only store for a week, and today it moves next door to an abandoned 90s office building.

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Games are: Tiny Turnip by Luke Sanderson, Cranky Cove by Jon Simantov, Overseer by Stoff, Blippo+ by YACHT, Telefantasy Studios, & Dustin Mierau

Day 20: Nominees for 2025 Playdate Game of the Year!
@lukesanderson.bsky.social @jonsimantov.bsky.social @stoff.bsky.social @com.y-a-c-h-t.com @telefantasytv.bsky.social @mierau.me @blippo.plus #Playdate

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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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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!

A great DVD-extra of a chat between two giants of game writing. You absolutely have to subscribe to this podcast!

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 😉)!

Paul Slocum, One of Digital Art’s First Champions, on Building a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem This past week, Paul Slocum celebrated 20 years of And/Or gallery, a pioneering space for the exhibition of new media art.

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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.

Huge stuff happenin’ in Los Angeles at Wilshire & Fairfax

99 Cent Opening
Sunday 2/22

The Wilshire Online Expo 26
Sunday 3/1

YESSSSSSSS

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!

Shoutout to Villa’s Tacos in Highland Park

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Gabe is an absolute legend. Donate if you can! ❤️

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Councilmember Nithya Raman to run for L.A. mayor, challenging onetime ally Karen Bass Raman would immediately pose a formidable challenge to Bass. She was the first council member to be elected with support from the Democratic Socialists of America.

Nithya Raman for Mayor of Los Angeles!

🙏🎉 @cd4losangeles.bsky.social

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Blippo+ (Original Soundtrack), by Rob Kieswetter & Jona Bechtolt 137 track album

The Blippo+ Original Soundtrack, by Grammy-nominated artists Rob Kieswetter & Jona Bechtolt is on SALE!

Experience radically discounted “Excellence in Audio” (according to the #IGF2026 nomination) until midnight:

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See you next month @officialgdc.bsky.social!

Blippo+ (Original Soundtrack), by Rob Kieswetter & Jona Bechtolt 137 track album

We have a song in GTA V, one in The Sims 3, one in The Metronomicon, and now 137 songs in @blippo.plus!?!

Buy the OST for $5 today only for @bandcamp.com Friday:

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Learn all about how the art and design of the underground phenomenon of @blippo.plus came to life with the official BTS book, Logos from Planet Blip! Any fan of the intergalactic airwaves won't want to miss out on this unique printed deep dive from @panic.com! zurl.co/j6Z0f

Donate to Critical Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families, organized by Sara Huelle "While ICE wants to disappear us, you are finding us." -Letter… Sara Huelle needs your support for Critical Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families

If anyone’s looking for a fundraiser to support folks who’ve been sheltering in place in Minneapolis, this one comes to me from a local friend who’s a certified real one:

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