Blippo
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| Released on 2025-05-29 | ||
| Made by Panic | ||
| Download: Season Two, Week 1 Catalog,Website | ||
| 30.3 MB | ||
What is Blippo+?
You start Blippo+, and instead of getting an expected game or app interface, your Playdate transforms into a TV receiver picking up channels of an alien civilization. Flip through the channels, use a Teletext/BBS-service, and be mesmerized by a captivating foreign culture with a story to tell. All streaming on the 1 bit display of your playdate.
⚠️ Spoilers alert! The Blippo+ schedule is an 11 week loop. This wiki site was initially built by a small team of volunteers during the first transmissions to Playdate consoles (May to August 2025). The site contains information about future Blippo+ transmissions. We hope you find it useful. Boing boing!
Channels and shows
- EPG Channel
- 00 SAL
- 02 BPS
- 08 CMBR
- Celestial Snow, Dance of the Ants, Zig-Zags, Dots on Parade, Fleas & Fuzz
- 13 MSTV
- 18 TVX
- 21 FAX - Femtofax
- 30 TDN
- 38 MEGA
- Top Tip, Total Tips, Tidy Tips, Tips Too, Tip Triangle
- 49 MWT
- 72 ACC
- AUX access, Local access, Global access, Universal access, System Ident
- 99 ZEST
- Skywave Diaries, Squish Tussle, Cathode Confessions, Tantric Computing, Nocturnal Transmissions
- Messages
(WIP LINK i dont know a better spot for this rn) Menu
Additional in-world media
- Desktop EPG on the web
- The EPG Audio Demonstration Disc
Timeline
- Timeline - details about the timing of transmissions (on Earth) and an overview of the story each week
Analysis
Credits
- Yacht
- Telefantasy - many of the videos (for individual credits see show pages)
- Dustin Mierau - Playdate programming
- Noble Robot - PC and Nintendo Switch programming
- Panic - Publisher
- Full credits - might contain spoilers for upcoming weeks!
External links
- Official playdate page
- Official page
- Various official links
- Discussions
- Analysis
- Press previews
- Eurogamer Here's everything featured in Day of the Devs' 2024 indie showcase
- Rock Paper Shotgun Untitled Goose Game and Thank Goodness You’re Here! publishers are doing a thing and I’m not sure what the thing is but it seems like a cool thing
- Gematsu Panic announces mysterious full-motion video game Blippo+
- PC Gamer Blippo+ is an uncanny, Hypnospace Outlaw-style game where you must flick through an alien off-cable TV network full of 'cloned opera stars and spooky raconteurs'
- Reviews
- The Verge Playdate’s second season is off to a great (and very weird) start
- Engadget Playdate Season 2 review: Fulcrum Defender, Dig! Dig! Dino! and Blippo+ - We're off to a great start.
- Blippo+ and how it came about is mentioned in the UK game magazine Edge #412 (August 2025) (Digital version @Zinio)
- DigitallyDownloaded.net Blippo+ has been fully revealed, and it’s a nostalgic piece of cable TV art
- Los Angeles Times L.A.’s underground art scene comes alive in new video game, ‘Blippo+’: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
- Retro Gamer, Issue 279 includes an interview - "We speak to the designers of an indie game about retro TV that's out of this world" on page 14f. (Digital version @Zinio)