This game has been made in 48 hours and is an entry for the miniBeansjam 5.

Blobby Shot

In Blobby Shot you play as a slime and have to protect your town from attacking waves of goblins. Luckily your elastic body can absorb any bomb thrown at you and just launch them back at your foes with ease. Try to defeat as many waves as possible.

Controls

• Move left: A
• Move right: D
• Jump: Space. Hold key for higher jump (requires upgrade in-game)
• Fall down faster (while in air): S
• Shoot absorbed bombs: Left Mouse Button
• Special move: Q (requires upgrade in-game)

Gameplay

You control a slime on the left side of the game window. From the right side, goblins will spawn and throw bombs over the town wall. You have to jump into the bombs in order to absorb them and shield your town from potential damage. But be careful as you can only hold up to a certain amount of bombs at a time. Once absorbed, you can launch the bombs back over the town wall and blast away those nasty goblins. You can control the strength of your bomb throws by increasing or decreasing the distance between you and the cross-hair cursor. Once you cleared all enemies of a wave, you can spend your earned currency to upgrade abilities or buy new power-ups and benefits. You lose the game, if your town's health points fall to zero.

Win condition

There is no special win condition. The goal is to beat as many waves as possible, as they get harder and harder every time.

Tips

• Enemy bombs have a subtle red tone, your bombs a subtle blue tone. Only enemy bombs will damage you.
• Keep an eye on your number of absorbed bombs. If you are at the maximum, other bombs will fall through you and damage your city.
• Every wave there is a flying present which can give you a random benefit if shot down. Those benefits include extra currency, 50% health restored, and +1 to maximum capacity of bombs!
• Try to reach a high combo counter. The higher your combos, the more extra currency you earn to spend during the buying phases.
• Occasionally large goblins will spawn. These have two possible attacks, one is a barrage of 5 small bombs, the other one is the launch of a large bomb. Large bombs are slower and do more damage to your city, but cannot be absorbed by you. You have to shoot them down instead. It takes 2 hits with small bombs to destroy them. Once you unlock your special move (Q), you can also reflect those large bombs back to the enemies when using it.

Theme interpretation

We chose to create a game around the theme combination of "elastic" and "explosions". Explosions are represented by the bomb throwing mechanic this game revolves around. For the elastic aspect, a playable slime has been chosen which can absorb and launch bombs, as well as reflect them with a special move once further progressed into the game.

Technical details

• The game was made in Unity 2D.
• All used graphics and sounds have been made by ourselves.