The Blob (2006)

by Banana Games

You are an alien from a far away world. One day your spaceship crashed into a meteor and you have to land on a planet called the earth. Now you are lost in a grey world. You are scared and haunted by the police. You are hungry...

...YOU ARE THE BLOB!!!

"The Blob" is a fun game in which you have to absorb coloured NPCs and use the paint to change the whole grey city into something more colour- and beautiful. Here is what the developer wrote about it:

"For the past four months I have worked together with eight other Dutch students on a game called The Blob. The game was a school project for an outside client. The station area of the city of Utrecht in The Netherlands is getting a thorough face-lift, as the station and many buildings around it are being rebuilt. Our task was to make a game that plays in the station area as it will be ten years from now, so that while playing, the audience is informed about what is going to happen. The game was to be played in a centre with information about the changes, but also be downloadable for players at home. This means the main target audience will walk by, play for a few minutes, and then walk on, but it should also be fun for people who download the game.

The resulting game is The Blob. It is a 3D game in which the player controls a ball of paint rolling through the city. The ball can absorb coloured NPC's to become larger and change its colour. With the paint, the player can then proceed to paint the entire city. Almost everything is paintable: buildings, trees, cars and using the paint trace even the ground. The main goal of the game is to paint all 17 landmark buildings. Hardcore fanatics can also try to collect all 50 coins that are hidden around the level."

A very nice game for all ages (if we believe our admin even babies like to watch this game), but maybe especially for kids who can learn a lot about the effects of mixing certain colours to create new ones by playing this game.

IMPORTANT HINT: It is not possible to start the game by clicking on the .exe file in the game folder. Please use the desktop icon or the Windows Start menu instead.

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• TheBlob.rar (103.05 MB)
  (Windows Installer)

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Discussion on our forums on The Blob

• Chroelle on 16.12.2007:
  De Blob is going Wii:
  http://www.gamespot.com/wii/puzzle/deblob/index.html

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• Chroelle on 12.11.2007:
  I think it is not quite a game, but more of a passtime activity. And it is quite ok by this. I had Anna on my lab while playing this and that didn't make it that much harder to play. I might be biased because Anna thought the game was very exciting and she laughed whenever I got a building colored, when the view changes so you can see the full building being colored.

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• Pater Alf on 11.11.2007:
  

  
  IMPORTANT: Don´t try to run the game by clicking on the .exe. Use the shortcut instead. It won´t run otherwise - at least not on my computer.

  
  
  I read a statement of the developers somewhere and it is really not possible to run the game using the .exe file. You have to start it by using the shortcut or the Windows start menu instead...

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• Chroelle on 11.11.2007:
  BUT... I cant get the game to work. It says an exception occured with the OGRE-engine or whatever... I tried it more than once, and I am not sure I would call it an exception...

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• Scythe on 25.10.2007:
  Sounds like a freeware variation on Katamari - interesting.

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• Pater Alf on 25.10.2007:
  I love the title of the game, because it reminded me of a great horror trash movie...
  In fact "The Blob" is great fun to play. Everything is very well done (especially the graphics) and I really like the concept.
  
  But again I´m to tired to write a proper description, so here is what the developer said himself:
  
  "For the past four months I have worked together with eight other Dutch students on a game called The Blob. The game was a school project for an outside client. The station area of the city of Utrecht in The Netherlands is getting a thorough face-lift, as the station and many buildings around it are being rebuilt. Our task was to make a game that plays in the station area as it will be ten years from now, so that while playing, the audience is informed about what is going to happen. The game was to be played in a centre with information about the changes, but also be downloadable for players at home. This means the main target audience will walk by, play for a few minutes, and then walk on, but it should also be fun for people who download the game.
  
  The resulting game is The Blob. It is a 3D game in which the player controls a ball of paint rolling through the city. The ball can absorb coloured NPC's to become larger and change its colour. With the paint, the player can then proceed to paint the entire city. Almost everything is paintable: buildings, trees, cars and using the paint trace even the ground. The main goal of the game is to paint all 17 landmark buildings. Hardcore fanatics can also try to collect all 50 coins that are hidden around the level.
  
  The game is finished, so we are hoping many people will play it now!"
  
  IMPORTANT: Don´t try to run the game by clicking on the .exe. Use the shortcut instead. It won´t run otherwise - at least not on my computer.
  
  Developer: Jasper Koning & Joost van Dongen
  
  Download: http://curlysworldoffreeware.com/game_i ... gameid=151
  
  Download size: 97 MB
  
  Year: 2006
  
  Status: We can host it!

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