Solo Project
Duration: 3 days
Credits: Animated Slime by Calciumtrice (CC Attribution 3.0)
Blob Battle is a two-player fighting game where two water blobs face off in a rainy battle. Collect raindrops of the same color and shoot at your opponent! This is a solo project for an impromptu weekend game jam with friends.
Design Choices
- Relative to its size, raindrops of the player's color will refill their health bar, while drops of the opponent's color will drain it.
- Shooting a bullet will also drain the player's health, to make each shot count.
- The bullets travel horizontally while the raindrops fall vertically. It is designed to be challenging to focus on objects moving on two different axis.
- The bigger a raindrop is, the faster it falls. This is to balance the larger hitbox it has that makes it easier to collide with.
- The start screen allows players to experiment with controls without consequences, while a countdown timer signals when the game will start.
Playtest Feedback
After some rigorous playtesting where several gamers tried to break the game, I received feedback and observed some ways to improve.
- The falling drops being completely random made players feel they were not in control of the outcome
- Find ways to reduce button-mashing when two players are in close range
- Add "invincibility frames" so that a player cannot be hurt for a duration after being hit