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Blobbysitter

By jake-marks, heiach, evil-scotsman and birdybirdkirby

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9003.6272
Fun13543.2572
Innovation11353.3272
Theme1384.2372
Graphics11953.6572
Audio2933.8572
Humor274.3473
Mood9753.5171

Comments

birdybirdkirby 2020-04-20 19:12

my blob baby!!!

heiach 2020-04-21 01:50

Slippery little bugger ain't he?

sarahfrisk 2020-04-21 03:35

this game was a lot of fun. Great job with art, and the audio added that extra level of polish! My poor blob baby!

maxathon 2020-04-21 03:37

Very cool concept, and very slick looking. Unfortunately I got stuck in the sink and couldn't do anything!

sunday-driver 2020-04-21 03:39

Hilarious game overall. Gameplay got repetetive very fast but it was still worth a play for the humor and short experience.

pumpkikin 2020-04-21 03:43

Funny and quirky game, i love the voice acting.

theqiwiboy 2020-04-21 03:43

I love the sound effects.

lordkawaii 2020-04-21 03:44

Love the voice acting! Super cute and fun!

anystarabove 2020-04-21 03:44

so fun. the sound clips are hilarious. great voice acting. the whole thing is very cute, fun and well executed.

aditya-kumar 2020-04-21 03:44

Hilarious! the vo is great and matches the sense of humor really well. I like the blob SFX as well

tristan-heles 2020-04-21 03:45

iNCREDIBLE

haoro 2020-04-21 03:46

Very funny game x) As a non-native English speaker, I would have appreciate some subtitles, but apart from that, I had fun! (I don't knoww how but you did succeed in making him perfectly ugly, annoying but not in that bad of a way x)

low-mana 2020-04-21 03:46

I've babysat a variety of ages and this is a really good way to bunch all that experience into one game. They just never want to live or stay put!

Thankfully when you feed and water this little dood they don't refuse it. It's a really solid entry and was a bit of fun playing it! As ugly as the blob is, it grows on you a bit; but after I beat the game I threw it into the outlet to make sure I got out my minor frustration and moving the little dood into the poop corner over and over :D

forgeronstudio 2020-04-21 03:46

This game is hilarious, and I before I knew it I was on my tenth run!

reid-willis 2020-04-21 03:48

The blob sounds are very... high fidelity xD That little guy is just out to get himself in trouble, ain't he?

shwany-b 2020-04-21 03:48

Damn how does this guy care for this blob than longer than 2 minutes lmao

saruto 2020-04-21 03:49

Fun, though it's pretty hard to get used to managing so much at the start. Maybe a easy level followed by the more difficult level would've been good? Good job though.

bonder 2020-04-21 03:50

Good voice acting! Phil Hendry's got nothing on you! :)

xbcw 2020-04-21 03:52

I loved the art.

p-dude 2020-04-21 03:53

Just beat it! Definitely tricky, but doesn't overstay its welcome at 2 minutes. A little finicky without a crosshair to accurately pick things up, but that almost enhance the experience? Love the blobby model, too. Great job folks! I appreciate the weirdness.

sanjana 2020-04-21 03:54

I love the voice!

boxedmeatrevolution 2020-04-21 03:55

You're welcome for looking after your blob baby :smile: Fun and humorous! Pretty tough, but it was possible to learn the blob-baby logic and perfect taking care of the blob, baby.

systematic 2020-04-21 04:02

Very funny, a little difficult

cammy 2020-04-21 04:18

Wow that was awesome, I loved the voice. This game was hilarious and pretty fun!

carson-bentley 2020-04-21 04:19

Awesome work. I found the game worthy of my two minutes. My favorite parts were the pictures on the walls. Clear signs of a doting parent. The shader for the blob was also nice. I like his hair too.

fizzyapple12 2020-04-21 04:20

I have seen a lot of child management games, but this one takes the cake with it's excellent humor and interesting play style. Keep up the amazing work!

dummydojo 2020-04-21 04:50

Very funny game! Love the voice acting and humor in it! Would like to see more development visually, but great set up so far! 2 minutes seems like its not much, but the difficulty of the game makes sense for it!

nachodlv 2020-04-21 16:15

Really fun and easy to understand. Keep it up!

inkajoo 2020-04-21 16:50

Funny concept but wayyyy too hard. I was pounding the desk!

balgorode 2020-04-21 22:28

That was really funny, though, I don't know if I was playing it wrong or something, but I did next to nothing and won.

aaa 2020-04-22 00:40

What a beautiful little character

oddarock 2020-04-22 21:11

Blobish translation: BlleABLleAnLLeA [this stupid neighbour] BleABleabLea [could not keep me alive] BleABlEablEa [for more than one minute)] BleAblEabLeA [I died at least 30 times] BleABleABleA [but he was having fun in the process] BleABLeAblEA [even when struggling with the controls] Blea [he said : "well done ! nice game" before leaving me frying/electrified/starving/rotting/stuck by a toolbox]

hellequinne 2020-04-22 23:22

Awesome submission. I have killed this blob baby so many times now.

jake-marks 2020-04-22 23:40

@hellequinne What have you done to my Blob Baby!?

jake-marks 2020-04-22 23:42

@aaa honestly though, he is quite a cute little gremlin. I mean, ask anyone. definitely not inspired by any art style from a recent adult swim pilot, no way.

jake-marks 2020-04-22 23:45

@inkajoo the blob baby was painstakingly designed to be only slightly easier to look after than a real baby

drums 2020-04-23 03:31

This is the ugliest thing i've ever seen. It's like if a Blobfish and naked mole rat had a child, then it got ran over....that deserves a gold medal in my book. Thanks for playing mine on stream!

lukas-shiley 2020-04-23 06:29

A little difficult at first and I think my spray bottle rolled into a wall at one point, but that was really fun. Nice game guys!

pusheeneiro 2020-04-23 17:34

I like this new Tamagotchi.

ratrat44 2020-04-23 18:10

I like how you have to babysit the adorable baby for literally only two minutes! The audio was also very funny!

dextreon 2020-04-24 11:46

hahaha I really liked this, dialogues were great, as well as the gameplay! It is very funny, congrats for this entry, good job!!!

lethalturtle 2020-04-24 14:50

HOW IS HE A BABY?!?!?, he looks like an 80 yr old with all of those stray hairs. Fun game, took me 5 tries to get it right.

ancientpears 2020-04-25 15:57

Loved the voice acting. :smile: RIP blobby

undead-aubergine 2020-04-25 15:58

I reaaaally enjoyed this one, the creature is absolutely horrendous and suicidal, congratulations for that! So much fun trying to care it!

guin36 2020-04-26 00:26

MY BABY BLOB This game is really hard and I am a terrible babysitter.

The voiceover is super cute, the blob is horrifying and evil and suicidal and I love it!

I really liked the overall concept of the game, but there were a lot of things working against it for me. The movement was too slippery, the camera was incredibly sensitive and the objects were really small and hard to click.

Overall, though, I really liked the concept and had a good time playing!

pythooonuser 2020-04-27 15:56

Quite a challenging one! The sounds and looks of the slime are quite distgusting :D The voice acting is really good and the slowed down music when you fail is a good call.

thebreakfast 2020-04-27 19:37

The voice over and sound effects are amazing, the game in general is very funny. I love the title too. But the game is very very difficult. I think if he moved just a little slower or didn't make a b-line directly for the stove every time it might be a bit more manageable. As it stands I had a pretty tough time with it haha. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BLOB BABY!" Poor old dude.

barnox 2020-04-28 10:09

A bit difficult to tell how to interact with the different items (clicking multiple times) or what the hazards are (the toolbox snuck up on me), but enjoyable!

svenerik 2020-04-28 10:59

That was one lovely blob. Sound effects fit very well too. I quite liked that the game felt hard too, loving agood challenge. I'd really love to see a polished version of this, would be interesting to see what could become of it. Was a fun one!

duke 2020-04-28 11:03

Oh man, this needs some re balancing... :D This guy just sprints towards the oven on the first frame of his live. Even if I pick him up and put him somewhere else, he just storms right back. Seems to be that the ai just can't take it anymore and want to end the game as fast as possible. The rest of the meters deplete SO fast, that there is no time to do anything. I managed to spray him once while he ran towards certain death. I have no idea how this is supposed to be played. But a little leeway would be nice. If I pick him up, he dies from all three meters at the same time after a couple of seconds. That doesn't seem fair to me!

I love the whole backstory and the absurdity of the situation and would've loved to play this a while but in the state, it is in now, I can't really. Way to frustrating and stressful.

Still, good job on the character design, the level structure and all assets in general. Looks really nice.

jake-marks 2020-04-28 17:46

@ratrat44 2 minutes is the ideal amount of time to need to babysit a blob.

@drums @undead-aubergine He is beautiful, isn't he!

@lethalturtle 5 tries seems reasonable to me. means you played it for under 10 minutes. any longer and it would overstay it's welcome I think.

@guin36 Thanks for the constructive feedback! mouse/camera sensitivity is too high for sure. we did want the objects to be hard to click on just to amp up the stress, but they're maybe a bit too small.

@pythooonuser Slowing down music is a great little "hack" to indicate "you lose", hehe.

@thebreakfast @barnox @svenerik @duke We made the rounds short to encourage trying a few times to get it right, but in retrospect we definitely had some developer bias on the difficulty. Thanks for the feedback!

meelo 2020-04-30 00:32

I feel that I must have missed something - I never managed to interact with the door, so blobbaby always died if it needed to relieve itself. Still enjoyed the game though - the humor is excellent, and I love the little touches, like the photos of blobbaby hanging on the wall (I'm so sorry, owner. I did kill your blobbaby. Repeatedly). The music is good and fits the theme well - and, of course, the voice acting is top notch. The blobbaby started to look kinda cute to me by the time I stopped playing... which maybe was a sign that I had played too long. Well done.

heiach 2020-04-30 03:40

@meelo The blobby baby starts on its litter tray, just place him there again to relief himself.

meelo 2020-04-30 04:19

@heiach Thanks! I dunno why I never tried that. I beat it on my second try after being armed with this new knowledge. Now I can rest easy, knowing I'm not a terribly blobbysitter.