Blob Factory

© Jeremiah Golden, 1996

Game Overview

How to Play

Keyboard Controls

Menu Commands

Blobfact.lvl file

About the Author


Game Overview

Blob factory is a windows platform game. Its freeware and my first attempt at a real game.

Story:

Are faithful hero the Blob was rudely displaced when his (blue liquid) Hot Tub exploded. With nasty Robots and Green Ooze in his way he crosses the factory to his Hot Tub to soak his feet.

Goal:

Get Blob to his Hot Tub!

Other topics:

How to Play

Keyboard Controls


Blob
Your normal animated blob that lives in a factory.


Hot Tub
At 2000 degrees it is mildly hot.


Robot
Has AI of broccoli.


Ooze
Take a dip in ooze for that melting feeling..


How to Play

Playing:

Use the Keyboard Controls to move the blob around the level. Touching  Ooze or Robots makes blob loose a life. When you use all your lives you start at level 1. Getting  blob to his Hot Tub completes the level. The current level and number of blobs left is displayed in the title bar.

Other Topics:

Game Overview

Cheater Keys


Cheater Keys

Right Mouse Button + c	Toggles Clear Block

Right Mouse Button + r	Toggles Robot Damage

Right Mouse Button + n	Gos to next level


Keyboard Controls

Left Arrow	Move Left

Right Arrow	Move Right

Down Arrow	Get in Hot Tub

Spacebar	Jump

Esc	Minimize & Pause Game


Menu Commands

Game

New Game	Starts New Game

Options	Opens Options Window

Exit Game	Exits Blob Factory

Help

Contents	Opens this help file

About	Tells about Blob factory


Options

Speed	Speed of game (1 fastest, 100 slowest)


Blobfact.lvl File

Warning: Edit Blobfact.lvl at your own risk

Blobfact.lvl is a normal text file that Blob Factory use for its levels. Each level is n wide and n tall. There are 3 levels in the file. A key of ASCII characters is provided below.

Tile Key:

.	Background	>	Right Arrow

-	Floor	<	Left Arrow

_	Ooze	S	Blob Start

@	Pipe	E	End

H	Container	*	Robot

Example:Click Here


LvlExample
..S.......................................................................

....................................*.......................>......>......

............................>..*..>.....H.......H.....>...*...........*...

............................@@@@..@@@@..HH..>..HHH...@@@..@@@@@@@@@@@@@...

....>...>..H>*H>*H....>.................HHH...HHHHH...*...H.<......<......

----_---_------------___-----__----__------___-------------E--------------


About the Author

Jeremiah Golden is a beginning windows game programmer currently working on windows games somewhere within the depths of California whose only exposure to the outside world is an internet connection.

Other games in the works

Mouse maze 2.0 where a lab mouse runs around.

WinG space shooter with (hopefully) 3d graphics.

Rpg that will be kind of like dragon warrior.

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