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.

Happiness

Blop’s happiness is key. It’s split into two parts: 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 smile, 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.

🚿 Hygiene: Hygiene decreases over time, especially if there’s poop in the room. Don’t worry, though—you can clean it up or give Blop a refreshing shower.

🏥 Health: Blop’s health is crucial. Neglecting hygiene, letting poop linger, or letting Blop go hungry can make him sick. 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 28 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.

🏃 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

Now 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 12 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

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
• 🔋 Game is taking around 8% in a hour
• Open system menu to disable locking device

Developer tools

Since Blop is still in early development (even after a few months 😅), I’d love to hear your feedback! It’s a challenge to balance all the different variables, especially since this is my first game.

In return for your feedback, I’m giving you access to my developer menu (just press the ⬆️ button). Here, you can check out Blop’s stats, mood, and happiness logs, change his appearance, monitor battery usage, or even use a revive item. Play around and let me know how it goes!