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BLOBWARS HELP FILE

Welcome to Blobwars.  In order to play this game, you will need the Ubi Soft Game Service available for download at www.ubisoft.com.  Blobwars is a shareware game.  You may distribute it freely.

What is Blobwars

Creating a session

Knowing the game console

Basic Blob movement

Blob power-ups

Game hints

Creating your own map

Blobwars Team


What is Blobwars

Blobwars is a multiplayer only, turn-based strategy game from Ubi Soft.  The objective of the game is to get as many blobs as possible in a variety of board-like worlds.  But watch out, Blobwars is a very unpredictable game, you never know what your opponent will do next.  Players can use five different Blob power-ups to conquer their enemies in an all out Blob war.

Good luck to all blobs.


Creating a session

In the Game Service, click the Create Session button.  Choose “ Blobwars ” then click OK.  You will now have to choose the type of game to play : blitz or normal mode.

Blitz mode.  When playing a game in blitz mode, a player has a maximum amount of time to play the game.  The master can choose the amount of time in minutes.  If the master enters a maximum time of 4 minutes, then you will only have 4 minutes to play your turns for the whole game.

Normal mode.  In normal mode, the master must choose the amount of time the players can play per turn.  If the master enters 30 sec, you will have 30 secondes to play per turn.

Choose theme.  Here, the master can choose from different game tiles for the game. The tiles are the squares that form the game board.

Choose map.  Here, the master can choose the map that the game will be played on.  You can also make your own maps with the Blobwars map editor.


Knowing the game console

The game console is your main control interface.  In this window you will find…

Chat window

This is where all chat messages will be displayed.

Score windows

Every players’ scores are displayed here.  You will notice that the score color correspond to the Blob color.

Buttons

You have four buttons on your game console which are used for…

Earth button : toggle mini-map on/off

Sound button : toggle sound on/off

Pass button : pass your turn while playing

Quit button : exit Blobwars

Power-up button

When you pick up power-ups with your blobs, you can select and use them by clicking on its icon.  After clicking on the icon, select the tile or blob you want to use it on.


Basic Blob movement

Movement

A blob can move up to two tiles per turn.  If you move your blob from one tile, he will split up into two blobs.  If you move your blob from two tiles, he will not split and make a two-tile jump.

Attack movement

To attack, you need to move your blobs near your enemies’ blobs.  All blobs surrounding yours (in a one-tile range) will be captured by becoming the same color as yours.  Be careful and plan your attack moves.

Pass

You can always pass your turn by pressing the Pass button.  It is sometimes wise to wait for your enemy to attack.


Blob power ups

Power-ups will appear all over the board.  To pick one up, simply move one of your blobs over the powered tile.  You can only carry one of each power-up.

Mines

Place a mine on an empty tile.  Only you can see your mines.  If an enemy steps on it… Boom!!!!  But be careful, you cannot see mines that your rivals have placed.

Armoured blob

A metal armour for your blobs.  Place the armour on one of your blob to protect him from your enemies for two turns.  The armour can resist Mine blast, Kamikaze blast, Cyclone.  The armoured blob won’t change color if attacked.

Kamikaze

Blow up the blob you selected and all other blobs that are on its surrounding tiles.  Be careful not to blow up all your blobs.

Cyclone

Use the Cyclone to destroy one of your enemies’ blobs.  The Cyclone will also destroy the tile under its target.  The tile will be repaired after two turns.

Teleport

The teleport will move one of your blob anywhere on the board.  Of course, it has to be an unoccupied tile.


Game hints

1.	Try to split your blobs when starting a game.

2.	Collect as many different power-ups as possible.

3.	Place your Mines around your blobs for defence.

4.	When on of your blob is left alone, surrounded by a bunch of enemy blobs, use the Kamikaze power-up to blast everything up.

5.	Use the rare Cyclones to dig a hole in your enemy defence.  Place it so that when the tile reappears, you can capture as much blobs as possible.

6.	Use the Teleport to spread your blobs around the board, it will give you a greater chance of success.


Creating your own map

The Blobwars’ map editor lets you create your own maps.  You just have to double-clic on BlobEditor.exe (which is in the same directory than Blobwars.exe) and build your map by laying all the elements the way you like it.  When you’re done, save your map in the “ map ” directory (it’s the default directory).  We recommand that you give a standard name to your map (for example, NewMap6-20, where 6 is the number of players and 20 is the 20 x 20 map dimension).

Your map will be automatically downloaded by the GS and sent to all the players who join the Blobwars session which will use it.


Blobwars team

Project manager

Nicolas Pajot

Project manager jr

Frédéric Pinard

Game Designer

Louis Lamarche

Graphics & arts

Louis Lamarche

Patrick Sirois

Frédéric Poirier

Programmers

Frédéric Blais

Stéphane Mouchel-Vichard

Lead testers

Bruno Paradis

Eric Martineau