Blah Blob! is a short platformer game made in HyperCard.
You control the titular Blah Blob as you bounce through twenty levels
of increasingly devious obstacles.
Play the whole game straight through trying your best not to explode,
or speedrun the levels individually or even the whole game and try to
beat your best time. Perhaps even have some fun while doing so!
(Please note the Blah Blob developer disavows all responsibility for
excessive fun or frustration experienced as a direct result of or in
conjunction with playing the game.)
> The author of Blah Blob learned HyperCard as a child because "he
> wanted to make his own version of Super Mario" and gradually learned
> how to push it to its very limits. Now, thirty years later, he has
> returned to HyperCard to reconnect with those earlier days, have
> some fun making a game again, and seeing what he can manage to get
> it to do now that he's not constrained by such trifling obstacles as
> "slow processor speeds" or "software that wasn't meant to do this
> sort of thing".
>
> Blah Blob is more than just an anachronism. There is no point at
> which it made sense to release it.
>
> It could have been made back in 1990 when HyperCard 2.0 was
> released, but on any Macintosh at the time it would have run at an
> unplayable speed of around 2 frames per second.
>
> In 1999 it could run great on a Power Mac with a G4 processor, but
> by that point most would have considered it too late to make a game
> with purely monochrome graphics ? HyperCard never had full support
> for color ? on computers that routinely displayed millions of
> colors, or contemporaneous with game consoles that had full 3D
> graphics.
>
> Perhaps it makes the most sense that it was made and released in
> 2023, roughly twenty-five years after HyperCard sadly lost its
> relevance in the world, at a time when some might appreciate its
> nostalgic qualities.
>
> ? Excerpt is from [the author's site][1].
Modern macOS, Windows, and Linux builds of the game are also available
[from the author's site][1].
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
To play at full speed on a physical Mac requires:
A Power Mac G3 or later
HyperCard or HyperCard Player version 2.3 or later
> If you want to use a controller, I recommend an app like JoyToKey or
> Xpadder to map keyboard keys to controller buttons.
>
> The actual HyperCard stack itself can also be downloaded and played
> on a classic Macintosh, provided it's fast enough to run it. I
> recommend a PowerMac G4 or newer with HyperCard 2.3.5 or later.
> (HyperCard 2.2 and earlier are not PPC native and therefore do not
> play the game at full speed on a PowerMac.) Make sure to give
> HyperCard at least 3000K of memory otherwise the game will crash!
>
> ? [the author's site][1].
[1]:
https://bribrikendall.itch.io/blah-blob
