Blop, Your Virtual Buddy

Welcome to the World of Blops! Game inspired by the classics like Tamagotchi and Animal Crossing. Blop brings you a unique virtual buddy experience on the Playdate. I’ve always felt the Playdate could use more idle games to keep us coming back for short, delightful moments, and that’s exactly what Blop is here to do.

Blop is always alive, even when you don’t have the game open. He needs your attention to stay happy, healthy, and full of life. This is how you achieve it.

Game is fully functional, but there are still a lot planned. So stay tuned for another updates 🎉.

Happiness

Blop’s happiness is key. It’s split into short-term and long-term happiness. Short-term happiness reflects how Blop feels in the moment, while long-term happiness is the average over time. You’ll know how Blop’s feeling just by looking at his face, and you’ll get a daily report on his happiness straight to your inbox.

Needs

Blop has four main needs: satiety, energy, hygiene, and health.

🍖 Satiety: Feed him regularly to keep him full, but watch out—his hunger will slowly creep back or overeating will make him chubby.

🚿 Hygiene: Hygiene decreases over time, especially if there’s poop in the room. Don’t worry, though—you can clean him up.

🏥 Health: Blop’s health is crucial. Neglecting hygiene, letting poop linger, or letting Blop go hungry can make him die. You can nurse him back to health with medicine, but it takes time, and Blop needs to stay clean and well-fed while recovering.

🛏️ Energy: Blop will sleep whenever he’s tired, even with the lights on. But for a truly restful sleep, turn off the lights, and he’ll wake up feeling great.

✨ Wishes & Tasks

Blop has wishes based on how you take care of him. His first wish? Just to be in good hands. Completing tasks related to his wishes will make him smile, and fulfilling an entire wish will boost his long-term happiness.

Blop’s wishes can be surprising. Maybe he wants to slim down if he’s feeling a bit chubby, or something what you don’t want, … like to be dirty.

Of course, you can refuse a wish, but that won’t make him very happy.

🫠 Every Blop is Unique

When you start the game, you’ll get to choose from a selection of randomly generated Blops, each with their own unique look, name, traits, and skills.

💪 Body - eyes, mouth, and body shape are randomly generated, and they’ll change as they grow. Blops get bigger with age, and if they eat a lot without exercising, they’ll get chubbier too!

🧠 Traits - over 40 different traits that make him unique. These traits develop as he ages, so you’ll need to adapt to his changing needs. Some traits are minor—like loving mail, which means you’ll be accepting a lot of spam. Others, like being an introvert or vegetarian change a lot how you care about Blop.

🏃 Skills - getting better in activities you are doing with him. Blop can learn and improve his skills over time. Maybe he’s not great at math, but with your help, he can get better!

💰 Catalog

You can earn coins. You don’t need to grind in games, you will get money based on how is your Blop feeling or developing.

In catalog you can buy over 20 items, but you will need to wait until package is delivered to you. But don’t worry, something like medicine or pizza is delivered much faster.

🕹️ Activities

• 🚶‍♀️ Walking: Possibility to walk with your buddy.
• ✂️ Rock-Paper-Scissors
• ⚽ Throwing ball
• 🏀 Basketball
• 📐 Teaching math
• 🎁 Try luck with lotteries and mystery boxes

📚 Idle Activities 

Some activities are happening without you and you need wait some time to completing it.

• 🧳 Jobs: Every day you receive job offers, based on Blop skill. Jobs can be up to 8 hours long. Duration is random and payment is based on Blop skill.
•  📖 Reading books: Every book improve different skill or improve some mood.
• 💪 Working out: Increasing strength

📱 Screen saver

While you are not interacting with blop, you can see him in special screen. This screen is better for battery and you can always see, what is Blop doing or get any notification in time.

Other

• ✉️ Inbox: To give me a opportunity talk to you or let you know game better by subscribing to “Game tips” service (or check daily animal facts).
• 📝 Diary: Keep track of everything happening with Blop in his diary
• 📱 Screen saver if you don't interact with your Blop
• ⏰ Timer and stopwatch
• 🔋 Game is taking around 8% in a hour
• Open system menu to disable locking device

Hope you enjoy the game, please give me any feedback and if you are interested, you can check this channel in Playdate Squad discord server.