You cannot write about playdates. Its bespoke gaming console is not a computer, so it has so many cranks on RPS (though former Eic Katharine reviewed it at launch). Well, not the way we need it for our purposes. But I have an excuse to do so today! The trailer for Panic-issued fake streaming service Blippo+ was unveiled over the weekend on the PC Gaming Show.
As you know, Blippo+ is already available technically as part of Playdate Season 2, and, like in the good old days, releases one-bit versions of fictional TV episodes one week at a time. However, the Blippo+ version that appears over the weekend is a full-fledged FMV game that recreates the sense of the channel on off-cable television, filled with budget productions featuring all sorts of shows, including news, sitcoms, and weather.
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It’s all made from real vintage analog broadcasting equipment. This is in my alley. I’ll have you peer in my strange pet. I hate that when movies and TV hit fake VHS filters and stuff like that and call it a day. You can always tell that it is being filmed with modern cameras and it doesn’t end me, so I am truly grateful for the effort put into Blippo+.
There are “old-fashioned” mechanics that can go back and forth between weeks of television, and can slowly reveal the strange lore of this world like ours, but… not. It was eon (translation: actually about 5 years or so) as I did all sorts of channel hopping at the end.
It is also written by Claire L. Evans and directed by Jonah Bettort. It wasn’t the creative team I was hoping for, but I imagine that the Dragon is not the Team Fores 2 Shooter, and not the last flag revealed in Jeff’s two-hour video game show.
Blippo+ doesn’t have an exact release date yet, but it is expected to be released sometime in the upcoming fall/fall, and you can add it to your wishlist on Steam here.