BLOBBY | 2011


  • Action Game
  • Fall fast enough to avoid death by Laser Guillotine
  • Collect Gems which allow you to boost to maximum speed
  • Team Responsibilities: Produced, Designed All Levels
  • Team size five, Sophomore Year
In Blobby, you really gotta go fast!  A laser guillotine is chasing you and the only way to survive is to outrun it!  Collect gems to build up your boost meter, then let it rip to massively increase your speed.  Or enter the blue speed portals for another speed boost.  If you go fast enough, you can even break through the walls and various obstacles that stand in your way!

Blobby was developed entirely from scratch in C++.  Copyright DigiPen USA Corporation, 2011.  All rights reserved.

Responsibilities:

-Level Creation and Editing
-Playtesting
-Production reports, GDD
-Team Presentations
-Milestone Scheduling

What went right:

  • The game delivered on it's core values: it was a quick, twitch reaction game where you can go fast.  Really fast, to the point where if you play it right you can beat the game in less than a minute.

What went wrong:

  • As the first engine we ever implemented in C++, the game had it's fair share of technical hurdles we couldn't quite get past.  For example, a level couldn't be too big as we had no clipping.
  • Getting the best time possible was less about reacting quickly and more about memorizing the level layout.  I would have liked to avoid that.

What I learned:

  • How to work around your tech.  Designing levels on a limited scale due to technical problems was a challenge but a rewarding one.

GDD:
You can download Blobby and it's GDD here.  It should take about 10 minutes max to play.
blobby_setup.exe
File Size: 13689 kb
File Type: exe
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blobby_gdd.odt
File Size: 1468 kb
File Type: odt
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