An action/puzzle game written in HTML5/JavaScript. For mouse and keyboard.

Play here:

http://planktongames.com/blob

Premise:

You are a mad scientist who loves growing blobs. Unfortunately, your blobs have been getting infected recently.

Your goal is to create full 5x5 blocks of healthy blobs. If you do, these blocks are immune from disease.

Controls and Instructions:

• You get your blobs in irregular groups of five at a time
• To place a group on empty spots, Click on the grid
• You can rotate the group with the E and R keys
• If you leave a hole when you place a group, it will fill in with an infected blob
• There are two levels of blob infection, infected (spotty) and diseased (purple)
• You can heal a 3x3 square of blobs with medicine. Move your mouse to the center of the area you want to heal and hit the M key. Infected blobs become healthy, and diseased blobs become merely infected.
• If you surround a medical syringe on the board with blobs, you collect it and can use it.
• The Infection bar rises over time (after the first level). If the Infection bar fills, some healthy blobs on the board will be infected, and some infected or diseased blobs will infect their neighbors.
• If you get stuck, or if your blob gets too infected, hit ESC to restart the level or return to the main menu

Creation

Written in HTML5/JavaScript using the CraftyJS library. Art in GIMP and PowerPoint with word graphics from CoolText.com. Sounds in GoldWave Audio. Music created in WolframTones composition tool.

Screenshots

Gameplay

Level intro

Help screen

Post-submisison minor bug fix: Level number wasn't showing, so I added a bit of code (one line) to fix that. 4/20/2020