Claire L. Evans
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Claire L. Evans
@theuniverse.bsky.social
LA-based writer of video games, articles, songs and books (in no particular order).

🚨 Hopelessly negligent poster.

See also @com.y-a-c-h-t.com
See also @blippo.plus

https://clairelevans.substack.com/
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It’s still extremely surreal to that I *wrote a video game* that’s out on Nintendo.

Even more surreal is the fact that people seem to (really) like it!

www.inverse.com/gaming/blipp...
'Blippo+' Is One Of The Funniest Games I’ve Ever Played And It’s Perfect For Nintendo Switch
'Blippo+' is a one-of-a-kind game telling the hilarious story of alien contact through public access TV shows.
www.inverse.com
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infocom, game studio, catalog, back, excerpt (1983) archive.org/details/vgmu...
November 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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❤️📡

“It really is a work of art, nailing the aesthetic of early-'90s TV and uncannily capturing a time and place in the way a song or a smell evokes a memory - in a way that feels almost personal.” — 9/10
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
so cool to see the brilliant @sarahweinman.com get the spotlight her work deserves! happy pub day!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
had an extremely normal one at the estate sale last week
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
in case anyone is wondering, yes, you do see Oscar Isaac's butt in the new Frankenstein movie
November 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Oh my Gob, the Playdate Catalog sale starts today! Get in on a fresh Blippo broadcast cycle for the low Earth price of $8 — or pick up all the Playdate Season 2 games for 20% off:
play.date/games/blippo/
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"there's no need to be quite so ruthless with our own species, folks"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUu9...
Natasha Lyonne Asks AI Leaders: "Whatever Happened to Being Cool?"
YouTube video by TIME
www.youtube.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
saw Tron: Ares last night. I realize this is the premise of the entire franchise but “inside the computer there is an enormous town filled with little guys in uniforms” is almost irredeemably silly
October 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Blippo+ is a handcrafted TV-channel surfing game from a past that never existed. L.A.-based actors, comedians and artists collaborated to direct and film hours of footage.

A joy to interview @theuniverse.bsky.social, one of its creators, whose career is studded with bright jewels like these.
With a career that spans music, tech, and cultural criticism, is there anything @TheUniverse.bsky.social can’t do?

Join @SimonParkin.bsky.social in conversation with the multi-talented Claire L. Evans as she reveals the five titles she chose for her perfect console.

Available now: apple.co/47awNv0
October 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jona and I are doing a little guided tour of Blippo+ in New York later this month at @metalabel.bsky.social! Come say hello!
Wednesday, October 22nd, join Blippo+ co-creators @com.y-a-c-h-t.com for an evening of worldbuilding and channel-flipping at @metalabel.bsky.social in New York!

Free 🎟️: parisbynight.metalabel.com/logosfrompla...

We’ll have copies of Logos From Planet Blip on hand, and plenty of Blippian cheer!
Planet Blip in New York City!
An evening of channel-flipping, alien television, and gaming against the grain with Blippo+ co-creators YACHT at Metalabel HQ in New York.
parisbynight.metalabel.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And now for something completely different…I went on the @quantamagazine.bsky.social podcast to discuss my recent piece on what cells remember; we got into shifting definitions of memory, forgotten science, and what we might retain from our unicellular forebears:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
What Can a Cell Remember?
Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · 10/07/2025 · 24m
podcasts.apple.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
wild that a podcast about my dream video game console turned into such a unfiltered confessional about my dorky only childhood. Thank you @simonparkin.bsky.social for the therapeutic opportunity to talk about my tiny toons spec scripts and utter inability to beat a single Donkey Kong boss!
With a career that spans music, tech, and cultural criticism, is there anything @TheUniverse.bsky.social can’t do?

Join @SimonParkin.bsky.social in conversation with the multi-talented Claire L. Evans as she reveals the five titles she chose for her perfect console.

Available now: apple.co/47awNv0
October 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
wow, 137 tracks for only ten bucks? folks that’s about 0.07 cents a track. We’re giving this soundtrack away!
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is all such good writing advice, especially:

“If a line just arrives in your head like it came from somewhere else, write it down immediately, meditate on it, and make it the foundation of whatever you’re building.”
September 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The strangest game of the year is a channel-surfing simulator
The strangest game of the year is a channel-surfing simulator
Do change that channel.
buff.ly
September 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s still extremely surreal to that I *wrote a video game* that’s out on Nintendo.

Even more surreal is the fact that people seem to (really) like it!

www.inverse.com/gaming/blipp...
'Blippo+' Is One Of The Funniest Games I’ve Ever Played And It’s Perfect For Nintendo Switch
'Blippo+' is a one-of-a-kind game telling the hilarious story of alien contact through public access TV shows.
www.inverse.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Blippo+ is out NOW and in FULL COLOR on PC and Switch!!!

📡 Steam
blippo.plus/steam

📡 Switch
blippo.plus/switch

📺 Tune in and get bent today!! blippo.plus 💫
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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🗓️ 📡 1 Day until Blippo+

The revolution in television crash-lands tomorrow on Steam and Nintendo Switch. Be ready!

blippo.plus
September 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Four days until Planet Blip crash-lands on an unsuspecting Earth 🪐
🗓️ 📡 4 Days Until Blippo+

The only place in all of subspace where you can tune into Small Talk with Gidget Gadget!

blippo.plus/steam
September 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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OH MY GOB!

Blippo+ arrives on Steam in less than a week. Wishlist now:

blippo.plus/steam
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...
blippo.plus
September 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
nobody has ever been or looked as cool as Robert Redford in Sneakers
September 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
attn: Portland buddies and future buddies!
August 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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🚨Announcement: it's been a year since the release of our perpetually-novel album 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒! In August 2024, 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 was 7 years before its time, and although the clock keeps ticking, the good news is you’ll still be ahead of the curve if you get into it now.

yacht.bandcamp.com/album/new-re...
New Release, by YACHT
10 track album
yacht.bandcamp.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Elmer Fudd, desperate to kill the rabbit, racked with grief the moment he thinks he might have succeeded, head over heels in love the moment the rabbit puts on a dress. Now that’s an interesting guy
August 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM