More than 100 artists, musicians, comedians, actors and performers from L.A.’s thriving, multifaceted underground art scene are featured in a new experimental video game named “ Blippo+. ” Created by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans , with music by Bechtolt and Rob Kieswetter , the trio behind the L.A.-based post-pop band YACHT (Young Americans Challenging High Technology), the game is part video art installation, part interactive theater. It was created for the newfangled gaming console Playdate , which was released in 2022 and purposefully conjures old-school devices like the Nintendo Game Boy , with a black-and-white, 1-bit display.

“This is essentially our bootleg way of making television, by skipping all the gatekeepers and going straight to a distribution platform

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