Live-action TV sim Blippo+ announced for Nintendo Switch
Panic, Grammy-nominated artists Yacht, Telefantasy Studios, and Noble Robot today announced Blippo+ for Nintendo Switch. A release is planned for this fall.
Blippo+ is a live-action cable TV simulator. This title has been featured on the Playdate device, but will now release on Nintendo’s console with a a time-hopping mechanic.
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FMV, ARG, VOD, WTF? No acronyms can describe the truly new delivery method, style, and lore of Blippo+. It’s so out of this world that early viewers seem only to be able to describe it as “weird.”
First teased during last December’s Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition showcase, Blippo+ is a wholly original channel-surfing experience filled with soaps, sitcoms, news, weather, and talk shows—all painstakingly made with vintage analog broadcast equipment and an intergenerational cast of over 100 actors, comedians, performers, and artists. Television newcomers and nostalgics alike will delight in flipping through Blippo+’s linear broadcast, browsing the robust Electronic Program Guide, tinkering with TV menu settings, and lurking the Femtofax videotext forums to unravel the planet-shaking narrative unfolding over the airwaves of Planet Blip.
Blippo+ is already making a splash with Playdate owners since a first installment of the experience landed as a surprise extra in the first week of Playdate’s Season 2 of games on May 29. Broadcast in glorious, 1-bit dithered video, the made-for-Playdate version of Blippo+ is appointment television just for Season 2 owners, with an entirely new slate of video replacing itself every Thursday at 10AM PT for eleven weeks. Buy Season 2 now to share this collective experience for the first time, in real-time, or catch the next broadcast cycle after the signal repeats—in perpetuity.
Blippo+ on PC and Switch takes the concept further, introducing a time-hopping mechanic so viewers can travel back and forth through weeks of TV programming without losing the magic of “non-demand” linear viewing. It also unveils Blippo+’s technicolor source material, an unmistakable look that comes thanks to director, producer, and cinematographer JJ Stratford—a video artist who lives works, lives, and dreams in television. Blippo+ was filmed at her fully-analog studio, Telefantasy Studios, in Glendale, California, with a cast drawn from the depths of Los Angeles art underground.
Take a look at a trailer for the game below.
