Blobbysitter by Jake Marks

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made by Jake Marks for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Your kindly neighbour has asked if you can look after his baby while he is away for 2 minutes.

``` Controls:

Left-click: Interact Right-click: Drop WASD: Movement ```

Credits: - Programming, Modeling: @EvilScotsman - Music, Sounds, Voice: @jake-marks - Art: @Birdybirdkirby & @Heiach

Ratings

Overall 900th 3.621⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1354th 3.257⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1135th 3.329⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Theme 138th 4.236⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1195th 3.65⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Audio 293th 3.857⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Humor 27th 4.345⭐ 73🧑‍⚖️
Mood 975th 3.514⭐ 71🧑‍⚖️
Given 113🗳️ 97🗨️

Feedback

Birdybirdkirby
20. Apr 2020 · 19:12 UTC
my blob baby!!!
Heiach
21. Apr 2020 · 01:50 UTC
Slippery little bugger ain't he?
SarahFrisk
21. Apr 2020 · 03:35 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 03:37 UTC
Very cool concept, and very slick looking. Unfortunately I got stuck in the sink and couldn't do anything!
sunday_driver
21. Apr 2020 · 03:39 UTC
Hilarious game overall. Gameplay got repetetive very fast but it was still worth a play for the humor and short experience.
Pumpkikin
21. Apr 2020 · 03:43 UTC
Funny and quirky game, i love the voice acting.
TheQiwiBoy
21. Apr 2020 · 03:43 UTC
I love the sound effects.
LordKawaii
21. Apr 2020 · 03:44 UTC
Love the voice acting! Super cute and fun!
anystarabove
21. Apr 2020 · 03:44 UTC
so fun. the sound clips are hilarious. great voice acting. the whole thing is very cute, fun and well executed.
Aditya Kumar
21. Apr 2020 · 03:44 UTC
Hilarious! the vo is great and matches the sense of humor really well. I like the blob SFX as well
Tristan Heles
21. Apr 2020 · 03:45 UTC
iNCREDIBLE
Haoro
21. Apr 2020 · 03:46 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 03:46 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 03:46 UTC
This game is hilarious, and I before I knew it I was on my tenth run!
Reid Willis
21. Apr 2020 · 03:48 UTC
The blob sounds are very... high fidelity xD That little guy is just out to get himself in trouble, ain't he?
shwany_b
21. Apr 2020 · 03:48 UTC
Damn how does this guy care for this blob than longer than 2 minutes lmao
Saruto
21. Apr 2020 · 03:49 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 03:50 UTC
Good voice acting! Phil Hendry's got nothing on you! :)
xbcw
21. Apr 2020 · 03:52 UTC
I loved the art.
P-Dude
21. Apr 2020 · 03:53 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 03:54 UTC
I love the voice!
BoxedMeatRevolution
21. Apr 2020 · 03:55 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 04:02 UTC
Very funny, a little difficult
cammy
21. Apr 2020 · 04:18 UTC
Wow that was awesome, I loved the voice. This game was hilarious and pretty fun!
Carson Bentley
21. Apr 2020 · 04:19 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 04:20 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 04:50 UTC
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
21. Apr 2020 · 16:15 UTC
Really fun and easy to understand. Keep it up!
Inkajoo
21. Apr 2020 · 16:50 UTC
Funny concept but wayyyy too hard. I was pounding the desk!
Balgorode
21. Apr 2020 · 22:28 UTC
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
22. Apr 2020 · 00:40 UTC
What a beautiful little character
oddarock
22. Apr 2020 · 21:11 UTC
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
22. Apr 2020 · 23:22 UTC
Awesome submission. I have killed this blob baby so many times now.
🎤 Jake Marks
22. Apr 2020 · 23:40 UTC
@hellequinne What have you done to my Blob Baby!?
🎤 Jake Marks
22. Apr 2020 · 23:42 UTC
@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
22. Apr 2020 · 23:45 UTC
@inkajoo the blob baby was painstakingly designed to be only slightly easier to look after than a real baby
Drums
23. Apr 2020 · 03:31 UTC
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
23. Apr 2020 · 06:29 UTC
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
23. Apr 2020 · 17:34 UTC
I like this new Tamagotchi.
Ratrat44
23. Apr 2020 · 18:10 UTC
I like how you have to babysit the adorable baby for literally only two minutes! The audio was also very funny!
Dextreon
24. Apr 2020 · 11:46 UTC
hahaha I really liked this, dialogues were great, as well as the gameplay! It is very funny, congrats for this entry, good job!!!
LethalTurtle
24. Apr 2020 · 14:50 UTC
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
25. Apr 2020 · 15:57 UTC
Loved the voice acting. :smile: RIP blobby
Undead Aubergine
25. Apr 2020 · 15:58 UTC
I reaaaally enjoyed this one, the creature is absolutely horrendous and suicidal, congratulations for that! So much fun trying to care it!
guin36
26. Apr 2020 · 00:26 UTC
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
27. Apr 2020 · 15:56 UTC
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
27. Apr 2020 · 19:37 UTC
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
28. Apr 2020 · 10:09 UTC
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
28. Apr 2020 · 10:59 UTC
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
28. Apr 2020 · 11:03 UTC
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
28. Apr 2020 · 17:46 UTC
@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
30. Apr 2020 · 00:32 UTC
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
30. Apr 2020 · 03:40 UTC
@meelo The blobby baby starts on its litter tray, just place him there again to relief himself.
meelo
30. Apr 2020 · 04:19 UTC
@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.