bugs bunny would wipe the floor with Q from star trek

there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.

Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.

Let’s gooo (to LAMaterial.com and give them our money)

it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like: “Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”

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+ 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

3/1/26 6135 Wilshire Blvd 11-6pm

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:

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 ❤️

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

Huge stuff happenin’ in Los Angeles at Wilshire & Fairfax 99 Cent Opening Sunday 2/22 The Wilshire Online Expo 26 Sunday 3/1

📻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!

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: www.gofundme.com/f/critical-r...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Flip different. Blippo+ has arrived on Macintosh™ computers.  Get it on the Mac App Store: blippo.plus/mac ⌘ Get it on Steam: blippo.plus/steam

I won a prize 🤓

can someone who knows things about media explain to me why you can’t buy a New Yorker at the airport anymore?

🏆 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...

OH MY GOB! Blippo+ has been nominated for four awards for the 28th annual Independent Games Festival! 🏆 Seumas McNally Grand Prize 🏆 Nuovo Award 🏆 Excellence in Visual Art 🏆 Excellence in Audio 🏅Honorable Mention: Excellence in Narrative See you @officialgdc.bsky.social!

If you’d told 12-year-old me that I’d someday get to work on a video game that ranked *higher* than Donkey Kong on a list like this I would’ve laughed you right outta the living room

“Blippo+ would have been an extraordinary game in any year, but it felt particularly resonant in this one because it’s just so exuberantly, unabashedly, undeniably human, a collaborative work made by very creative people.” 📡❤️🍾

“Blippo+ is more than just a collection of TV shows, it’s also a fascinating narrative experience that immerses us in a culture on the brink of potentially radical change. A better world is possible, and the revolution just might be televised. “ Thank you @carolynmichelle.bsky.social!

best thing about the current iteration of the Avatar franchise is how Jermaine Clement has to remind viewers who he is by saying “I’m Ian Garvin!” and “I’m a marine biologist!” at least once but preferably twice per film

What does it mean to live with a wild animal? Went long on Konrad Lorenz, zoo-keeping, and the dark side of a Dr. Doolittle lifestyle: clairelevans.substack.com/p/those-curi...

"I can't think of another game that does something so experimental so successfully" 🙏 Thank you @thejenna.bsky.social and @secondwindgroup.com!

joining @theuniverse.bsky.social at the nub-end open.substack.com/pub/clairele...

Here's the origin story of Blippo! (The 2025 video game people will be discovering for months and years to come!)

#6. BLIPPO+ - The experience of watching a news story become so culturally all-consuming that it seeps into all media, captured in an extraordinary work of interactive fiction. "Took my money and bought a TV /TV brings me closer to the world."

My @pioneerwork.bsky.social piece on the history of interactive cinema gets the full print treatment in this glorious third issue of Broadcast, which is consistently an all-killer, no filler publication!

“Passive observation becomes something of a meta puzzle as you try to piece together all the quirks of a foreign culture through news broadcasts and public access shows. Blippo+ recreates that experience in astonishing fashion.”

It's been quite a year for Quanta biology! In this year-end post I highlighted some favorite stories by @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social @theuniverse.bsky.social @peterbrannen.bsky.social @mollyherring.bsky.social and Ariel Bleicher - and I want to share more of our great work from the year below!

Read about this year’s biggest moments in biology.

Oh my gob! Blippo+ was my first foray writing for a new medium, so I'm extremely tickled by this nomination for Best Writing in a Game! Thank you so much for taking a peek into the Bend @nyvgcc.bsky.social!!

First newsletter from my new office, on extinct megafauna, buggy computers, and the dotcom bubble: clairelevans.substack.com/p/feed-the-s...

We can't stop thinking about Blippo+, a "game" that simulates channel surfing cable TV in the '80s and '90s. www.avclub.com/best-blippo-...

“Blippo+ is one of the year’s most original games, so much so that it almost defies explanation.”

📡 ATTENTION EARTHLINGS! You are now free to nominate Blippo+ for the 2025 Steam Awards, from now until December 1st. Stay Tuned, Lisa Duo Your Television Executive store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...

Wrote a short opinion piece for @issuesinst.bsky.social in response to a science fiction story by E.G. Condé about the inescapable heat death of all our data. Can biology help us slow this thermodynamic destiny? Thanks to @imaginationasu.bsky.social for the invitation: issues.org/futuretensef...

This week's #FreeFictionFriday response essay, "Can We Cool Down Data?" by @theuniverse.bsky.social , explores the innovative possibilities of DNA-based digital data storage and reflects on why seeking cooler, more resilient storage alternatives is essential. issues.org/futuretensef...

This book rules

This is very much a thing! I am even less prominent but I still get an email like this every few months. They tend to come with Google Drive folders of lengthy chat transcripts as “evidence”

Making an audiobook of our graphic design sourcebook for @blippo.plus was a real challenge—I had to write detailed descriptions of all the logos and design elements in the game, some of which are pretty oblique. It was a crash course in alt-text. I hope the end result is fun and accessible for all!

infocom, game studio, catalog, back, excerpt (1983) archive.org/details/vgmu...

❤️📡 “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

so cool to see the brilliant @sarahweinman.com get the spotlight her work deserves! happy pub day!! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

had an extremely normal one at the estate sale last week

“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

in case anyone is wondering, yes, you do see Oscar Isaac's butt in the new Frankenstein movie

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/