Claire L. Evans

Claire L. Evans

@theuniverse.bsky.social

Award-winning Los Angeles-based writer of video games, science articles, weird pop songs and books (in no particular order). Hopelessly negligent poster. See also @blippo.plus & @com.y-a-c-h-t.com, newsletter at https://clairelevans.substack.com/

1,250 Followers 379 Following 191 Posts Joined May 2023
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I believe my Dad is there

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it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like:

“Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”

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I think it was! We’ll share for sure if so.

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Blippo+ Writer Claire L. Evans standing with Game and Creative Director Jona Bechtolt in front of a large red GDC display at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Claire wears a leather jacket and cool shades. Jona wears a brown linen shirt and canvas sneakers. Both are sporting enormous GDC badges. On the floor it says “FESTIVAL OF GAMING” in white letters on a blue starlike shape.

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...

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1 week ago
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Indie Soapbox: Playing it Unsafe | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming Indie Soapbox is the chance for indie devs from diverse backgrounds and projects to come together to share their thoughts, lessons and provocations about indie game dev in this long standing microtalk...

📡 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

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

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my mom calls ‘em “Air n’B n’Bs”

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A flyer for an event called “DEAD MEDIA CHAT ROOM.” It features a very cool vintage illustration of some old computers slowly sinking into a primordial tar pit. The event is from 12-5:30 on March 1st, at Wilshire Online, 6135 Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles. A second, more detailed flyer for the “Dead Media Chat Room” event at Wilshire Online on March 1st. The full lineup reads: 

Joanne McNeil, on MySpace
Claire L. Evans, on 35mm slides
Jackie Forsyte, on shortwave radio
Peggy Weil, on obsolete works
Azad Namazie, on floppy discs
Zack Oldenburg, on dreams
Dick Heiser, on LA’s first computer store
Michael J. Masucci, on early adoption
Sophia Weltman, on melancholia
Resonant.love, on repair

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:

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2 weeks ago

🙈

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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 ❤️

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I regret to inform you that this is the way

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….maybe one Giant of Game Writing and one regular-sized Person of Game Writing

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2 weeks ago

Christa FMV game when!!

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

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Huge stuff happenin’ in Los Angeles at Wilshire & Fairfax

99 Cent Opening
Sunday 2/22

The Wilshire Online Expo 26
Sunday 3/1

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📻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!

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3 weeks ago

That’s so wonderful to hear, thank you!

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1 month ago
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Donate to Critical Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families, organized by Sara Huelle "While ICE wants to disappear us, you are finding us." -Letter… Sara Huelle needs your support for Critical Rent Assistance for Central Neighborhood Families

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...

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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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

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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

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1 month ago

I won a prize 🤓

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1 month ago

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

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1 month ago

Hell yeah

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2 months ago
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🏆 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...

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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!

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2 months ago

Amazing! Congrats!

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2 months ago

*help out in a BIG way

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2 months ago

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

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“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.”

📡❤️🍾

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“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!

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