Raining Blobs is now available in Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/raining-blobs/id1492501380?ls=1


You can see all the available platforms on the official website:
http://rainingblobs.com

And this port should be the end of Raining Blobs!

I am thinking about completely overhauling the game with new graphics, features and more polishing.
This would be Raining Blobs Ultimate, or something similar.
Let me know what you think about that.

Regards,
Endi

Raining Blobs is now available on Nintendo Switch for US/EU/AUS regions!!!

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/raining-blobs-switch/



And don't forget that you can now play Raining blobs online with friends through Steam with the new Steam feature! ;)

Enjoy,
Endi

Raining Blobs has been approved for Nintendo Switch release and the port is in progress! So excited, stay tuned for more info!

Small update brings:

• Replay Skip option, finally! You can still fast forward with button A and skip at any time with button B.
  
• Endless Battle is tweaked and should allow skilled players to go much further. New colors are introduced much later which makes this game mode much more enjoyable. If you could not get around 20 wins, this change will not make a difference to you.
  
• Core libraries update. Better gamepads support.
  
• Minor leaderboards score formatting tweak to properly handle 10M+ scores.
  

New update brings (plus previous update changes that were not announced):

• Slower AI difficulty increase in Endless Battle.
  
• Added visual cue when blobs are being switched in tight gap.
  
• When going back to menu score is automatically saved even if you don't enter player name and press OK.
  
• Finishing with continues in Tournament will get you on the leaderboard but it will include all retry times so players that finish without continues will still have advantage.
  
• Game Zoom options is removed from Options since it was useless and it is replaced with Game Effects. Under Game Effects you have 5 options that can be turned on and off by your liking. Some players complain that there is too much going on on the screen at some point that they can't focus on the actual gameplay so this will help those players enjoy it more. Available options are: board combo flashes, board speed-up rotating background, flying star trails, main background animation, main background visibility.
  
• Board combo flashing effect is disabled in Puzzle mode.
  
• Bug fixed when going from watching match replay to How To Play screen.
  

New update brings (plus previous update changes that were not announced):

• Slower AI difficulty increase in Endless Battle.
  
• Added visual cue when blobs are being switched in tight gap.
  
• When going back to menu score is automatically saved even if you don't enter player name and press OK.
  
• Finishing with continues in Tournament will get you on the leaderboard but it will include all retry times so players that finish without continues will still have advantage.
  
• Game Zoom options is removed from Options since it was useless and it is replaced with Game Effects. Under Game Effects you have 5 options that can be turned on and off by your liking. Some players complain that there is too much going on on the screen at some point that they can't focus on the actual gameplay so this will help those players enjoy it more. Available options are: board combo flashes, board speed-up rotating background, flying star trails, main background animation, main background visibility.
  
• Board combo flashing effect is disabled in Puzzle mode.
  
• Bug fixed when going from watching match replay to How To Play screen.
  

Here are details of everything that you can play and how to do it properly.

Arcade
There is plenty to play in Arcade mode.
-You can play alone or put all real/cpu players on same team to compete for high score and reach level 100. In this mode score matters the most and it is saved to local and global Leaderboards. Beside making high score and reaching level 100 you would also try to complete many of the achievements.
-If you play Arcade mode with multiple real/cpu players on different teams you will fight each other. There are many achievements that can be completed in this mode.
You can enable Fast Drop in Variants. With Fast Drop on you can instantly drop current blobs by pressing Up. There are many other things you can change in Variants like type of the garbage, number of colors and so on.
Note: by changing Variants you can disable achievmenets. For example if you start the game with 2 colors and reach level 100 you will not get any of the achievmeents you would if you started with 4 colors which is default.

Tournament
Fight against all girls and hidden character at the end. After finishing Tournament you unravel your character's story and unlock last hidden character and stage that become available in other modes.
Finish Tournament to compete on local and global Leaderboards.
You can compete on Tournament leaderboard even if you use Continues but all play times will be summed. The faster you finish it the better you are placed on the leaderboard.
Other player can take control of the CPU any time by pressing Start on their controller. But in this case you will unlock nothing at the end.

Endless Battle
Try to win as many consecutive battles as possible. Compete on the leaderboards with the number of wins. Complete achievements.
Up to 8 real/cpu players can play together.
Note: you need to play alone to compete on the leaderboards.

Puzzle
Try to solve as much as possible of the 100 randomized puzzles grouped by difficulty. Puzzles are randomized from a pool of total 150 puzzles.
Puzzle mode can also be played with other real/cpu players.
Note: you can't complete Puzzle achievements if you play with cpu players.

Playing with different RULES
-Beside DEFAULT rule where you stack blobs by color and clear the groups by adding 2 or more same color stars you can also play with completely different rules that require different way of thinking and different strategies.
Main focus with default rules is to create groups as big as possible and set up combo chains along the way. All game modes except for Puzzle mode can be played with any of the rules. Many of the achievements can't be completed when playing with other than default rules and also you can't compete on the leaderboards with it. But there are some achievements created for the non-default rules.
-MATCH 4: no stars or gems. You need to connect 4 or more blobs to clear a group. Main focus with this rules is setting up big combo chains.
-1 STAR: all blobs that fall are without stars. Stack the blobs by color. Only one star is required to clear a group. Stars can only be added to the current falling blobs by pressing Up. Main focus here is to stack the groups as big as possible and as fast as possible.

Tip and tricks
-One of the biggest mistakes that new players make is that they try to clear color groups as fast as possible in order to keep clear board. THIS IS THE WORST STRATEGY! When you play like that you send very little garbage to the opponent/s when fighting and you also score least points when playing for high score.
In short, BEST STRATEGY would be to maintain one or more big color groups and clear other color groups as small and as fast as possible so you can maintain and grow the big ones. When you clear less than 4 color groups you are not releasing the pending garbage to fall on your board.
While you are building that one or two big color groups try to set up couple combo chains. Clearing big group/s with combo chains is the best thing you can do for sending a lot of garbage and scoring big points.
This is much easier said than done but with practice it becomes natural way of thinking and it makes huge difference.
-Have in mind that one random color always is dominant so try to figure it out and stack that one the most.
-When next blobs show up, there is tiny drop-delay window in which the blobs are not falling but you can make moves. Learn to utilize this in order to play much easier when the extreme speed ups kick in.
-Watch next blobs and decide where to place them before they even start falling.

Take a quick look at Monster Group achievement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU4dmpOY-do
I am planning to create more videos with detailed explanation for best strategies and tips.

Let me know what you would like to see explained in more details or what kind of video you would like to see.

Enjoy,
Endi

Here are details of everything that you can play and how to do it properly.

Arcade
There is plenty to play in Arcade mode.
-You can play alone or put all real/cpu players on same team to compete for high score and reach level 100. In this mode score matters the most and it is saved to local and global Leaderboards. Beside making high score and reaching level 100 you would also try to complete many of the achievements.
-If you play Arcade mode with multiple real/cpu players on different teams you will fight each other. There are many achievements that can be completed in this mode.
You can enable Fast Drop in Variants. With Fast Drop on you can instantly drop current blobs by pressing Up. There are many other things you can change in Variants like type of the garbage, number of colors and so on.
Note: by changing Variants you can disable achievmenets. For example if you start the game with 2 colors and reach level 100 you will not get any of the achievmeents you would if you started with 4 colors which is default.

Tournament
Fight against all girls and hidden character at the end. After finishing Tournament you unravel your character's story and unlock last hidden character and stage that become available in other modes.
Finish Tournament to compete on local and global Leaderboards.
You can compete on Tournament leaderboard even if you use Continues but all play times will be summed. The faster you finish it the better you are placed on the leaderboard.
Other player can take control of the CPU any time by pressing Start on their controller. But in this case you will unlock nothing at the end.

Endless Battle
Try to win as many consecutive battles as possible. Compete on the leaderboards with the number of wins. Complete achievements.
Up to 8 real/cpu players can play together.
Note: you need to play alone to compete on the leaderboards.

Puzzle
Try to solve as much as possible of the 100 randomized puzzles grouped by difficulty. Puzzles are randomized from a pool of total 150 puzzles.
Puzzle mode can also be played with other real/cpu players.
Note: you can't complete Puzzle achievements if you play with cpu players.

Playing with different RULES
-Beside DEFAULT rule where you stack blobs by color and clear the groups by adding 2 or more same color stars you can also play with completely different rules that require different way of thinking and different strategies.
Main focus with default rules is to create groups as big as possible and set up combo chains along the way. All game modes except for Puzzle mode can be played with any of the rules. Many of the achievements can't be completed when playing with other than default rules and also you can't compete on the leaderboards with it. But there are some achievements created for the non-default rules.
-MATCH 4: no stars or gems. You need to connect 4 or more blobs to clear a group. Main focus with this rules is setting up big combo chains.
-1 STAR: all blobs that fall are without stars. Stack the blobs by color. Only one star is required to clear a group. Stars can only be added to the current falling blobs by pressing Up. Main focus here is to stack the groups as big as possible and as fast as possible.

Tip and tricks
-One of the biggest mistakes that new players make is that they try to clear color groups as fast as possible in order to keep clear board. THIS IS THE WORST STRATEGY! When you play like that you send very little garbage to the opponent/s when fighting and you also score least points when playing for high score.
In short, BEST STRATEGY would be to maintain one or more big color groups and clear other color groups as small and as fast as possible so you can maintain and grow the big ones. When you clear less than 4 color groups you are not releasing the pending garbage to fall on your board.
While you are building that one or two big color groups try to set up couple combo chains. Clearing big group/s with combo chains is the best thing you can do for sending a lot of garbage and scoring big points.
This is much easier said than done but with practice it becomes natural way of thinking and it makes huge difference.
-Have in mind that one random color always is dominant so try to figure it out and stack that one the most.
-When next blobs show up, there is tiny drop-delay window in which the blobs are not falling but you can make moves. Learn to utilize this in order to play much easier when the extreme speed ups kick in.
-Watch next blobs and decide where to place them before they even start falling.

Take a quick look at Monster Group achievement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU4dmpOY-do
I am planning to create more videos with detailed explanation for best strategies and tips.

Let me know what you would like to see explained in more details or what kind of video you would like to see.

Enjoy,
Endi

Hope you are all having great holiday time and wish you all the best in the upcoming year!

Small new update brings:

• Now you can compete on Tournament Leaderboard even if you finish it with continues. Those that finish without continues will still have advantage since times from the matches you loose are added to the final score. Plus whenever you continue the points are reset but those are not so important since Tournament Leaderboard is ordered by fastest finish time.
  
• Replay is now working on last stage in Tournament.
  
• If you press Start on name input to go back to the menu without pressing OK to confirm the name, the name is automatically confirmed and the score is added to the appropriate local and global leaderboards. I have noticed that some players enter their name without selecting OK at the end and because of that they are not placed on the leaderboards.
  
• Some minor tweaks.
  

Hope you are all having great holiday time and wish you all the best in the upcoming year!

Small new update brings:

• Now you can compete on Tournament Leaderboard even if you finish it with continues. Those that finish without continues will still have advantage since times from the matches you loose are added to the final score. Plus whenever you continue the points are reset but those are not so important since Tournament Leaderboard is ordered by fastest finish time.
  
• Replay is now working on last stage in Tournament.
  
• If you press Start on name input to go back to the menu without pressing OK to confirm the name, the name is automatically confirmed and the score is added to the appropriate local and global leaderboards. I have noticed that some players enter their name without selecting OK at the end and because of that they are not placed on the leaderboards.
  
• Some minor tweaks.
  

Stay tuned for release date.

Stay tuned for release date.

New small update brings

• New font design for Leaderboards now shows thinner lower and uppercase letters.
  
• Some under the hood improvements for Replays. There were extreme cases that could break Replays but not anymore. Also some minor Replay UI changes.
  
• Small UI tweaks.
  
• If Player 1 gamepad is disconnected during gameplay the game will pause and notify the player to connect the gamepad.
  

New small update brings

• New font design for Leaderboards now shows thinner lower and uppercase letters.
  
• Some under the hood improvements for Replays. There were extreme cases that could break Replays but not anymore. Also some minor Replay UI changes.
  
• Small UI tweaks.
  
• If Player 1 gamepad is disconnected during gameplay the game will pause and notify the player to connect the gamepad.
  

Small new update adds Fast Forward to Replays.
While watching Replay just hold button A to fast forward and release for normal speed.

Enjoy,
Endi

Small new update adds Fast Forward to Replays.
While watching Replay just hold button A to fast forward and release for normal speed.

Enjoy,
Endi

New update brings ability to watch REPLAY of all ARCADE and TOURNAMENT games.
Also now you are able to look at the board stats for longer period between matches and continue when you want by pressing START or watch a REPLAY by pressing button A.
This works in both ARCADE and TOURNAMENT modes.

Replay is not available for ENDLESS BATTLE and PUZZLE modes.

In future updates I might add ability to save the replays, right now you can just watch them. You can watch them as many times as you want but once you continue they are gone.

Please give it a try and let me know if you find some issues.
The game had 0 bugs and 0 performance issues before this update so all these changes make me nervous before the Xbox One release :)

NOTE: I am able to break REPLAY by abusing PAUSE/RESUME during regular plays and replays. I am working on this but if you are playing it normally you should be good.

I am planning to enter Xbox One certification very soon!

Stay tuned and enjoy,
Endi

New update brings ability to watch REPLAY of all ARCADE and TOURNAMENT games.
Also now you are able to look at the board stats for longer period between matches and continue when you want by pressing START or watch a REPLAY by pressing button A.
This works in both ARCADE and TOURNAMENT modes.

Replay is not available for ENDLESS BATTLE and PUZZLE modes.

In future updates I might add ability to save the replays, right now you can just watch them. You can watch them as many times as you want but once you continue they are gone.

Please give it a try and let me know if you find some issues.
The game had 0 bugs and 0 performance issues before this update so all these changes make me nervous before the Xbox One release :)

NOTE: I am able to break REPLAY by abusing PAUSE/RESUME during regular plays and replays. I am working on this but if you are playing it normally you should be good.

I am planning to enter Xbox One certification very soon!

Stay tuned and enjoy,
Endi

Fully playable Android Demo available in the Play Store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rainingblobs.rainingblobsdemo&hl=en

Fully playable Android Demo available in the Play Store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rainingblobs.rainingblobsdemo&hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUH06N7VZs
Raining Blobs now available on Android Play store!!
DEMO Android version coming very soon.

I hope Xbox One version will be available very soon too. It is working perfectly fine there but I am stuck with some set up stuff and communication is slow.

Enjoy!
Endi

Demo version limitations are greatly improved.
You can get much better feel of the game now compared to the old restriction of 90 seconds gameplay!

• 90 seconds demo gameplay limit is removed.
  
• Arcade non-battle mode lets you play until level 40.
  
• Arcade battle mode let you play until one player wins.
  
• Tournament can be played until stage 4.
  
• Endless Battle can be played until 5 wins.
  
• Puzzle mode can be played until 40th puzzle.
  
• Big DEMO label in main menu added.
  

New update brings:

• Puzzle mode difficulty selection. Easy mode will let you play with easier puzzles but achievements and leaderboards entry are disabled. Hard mode is same as Normal but at faster pace.
  
• 20 new Easy puzzles.
  
• Some minor tweaks.
  

Small update brings:

• Some small rare case bugs fixed in end state of Tournament.The bugs were only cosmetic and not game breaking.
  
• Ability to make moves after blob touches end is tweaked. This is noticeable on higher speeds, especially when playing Arcade on Hard. Let me know if this makes difference for you. Before this, on fastest speeds you had very little time to change your mind after hitting obstacle.
  
• Demo version is also updated plus the time limit in Tournament mode is removed and you can play first 2 stages without interruption.
  

New update brings:

• Leaderboards overhaul. Arcade Easy, Normal and Hard are separated. Font is bigger and more records are displayed at once for all leaderboard types.
  
• Any player can now take control of the AI opponent in Tournament by pressing Start. Once this happens in the Tournament run, all tournament achievements are disabled.
  
• Front flying star is bolder and some more minor tweaks.
  

Now Steam demo is available for all three platforms!

It is fully playable so you can see everything the game has to offer.
Match time is limited to 90 seconds and you can't complete achievements or compete on the leaderboards.

Enjoy!

New update brings:

• Difficulty selection for Tournament. Now besides the default Normal Tournament difficulty you can also play it on Easy and Hard. Can't compete on Tournament leaderboard on Easy.
  
• Two new achievements for finishing the new Easy and Hard Tournament difficulties, BABY CHAMPION and CRAZY CHAMPION.
  
• Improved icons for Match 4 and 1 Star Tournament achievements.
  
• Added next letter cursor in text input box.
  
• Song on last stage in Tournament is not starting again since it already plays from the tournament transition screen.
  

New update brings:

• Added sound effects on all actions in menu.
  
• All Tournament stages now have different song.
  
• When playing Arcade on Easy or Normal there is one more default song in each. Not new songs, the ones that are listed as Bonus and could be listened only if you manually select them.
  
• Board background is less flashy during speed up.
  
• Wallpapers added to Soundtrack DLC. Wallpapers from all stages with and without logo.
  
• Fast Drop was not working in How To Play and is fixed.
  
• Some additional round minor visual tweaks.
  

Now you should be able to use more than 4 wireless gamepads.

There is a discussion thread for this issue and many of you reported that you can't use more than 4 wireless gamepads.

Please give it a try and let me know. I don't have so many wireless gampeads so you need to test it :)

Enjoy,
Endi

If you want to further support the game you can buy the awesome OST now!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/593040/
Here is a preview of all songs by BJ Derganc and bonus track by Bjulin:
https://youtu.be/g343kSD3tiE
You can find the soundtrack in game's folder under "Raining Blobs OST". You will find the songs in MP3 format together with the cover. FLAC version of the songs should be added soon.

Thanks for all the support,
Endi

Small update brings:

• Some more minor SFX optimizations.
  
• Touch button in Controls is not visible for non-touch devices.
  
• Name input now lasts for 30 seconds instead of 20.
  
• Small but important garbage release change. If pending garbage is cancelled but new garbage arrives before your next blobs show up, new garbage will not be released as it was the case before but it will stay as pending. This is important tweak for chaotic matches, especially when many skilled players/CPUs are playing.
  

Small update brings:

• Bigger team icons on character selection screen.
  
• Some more SFX optimizations.
  
• In PUZZLE mode starring is improved after connecting the blobs. When you slowly connect the blobs now stars show up in all blobs in that small delay before they are cleared.
  

Small but important update brings:

• New awesome music track by Bjulin (http://bjulin.de) ! The track is called Bonus 3.
  
• Great SFX improvements and optimizations. Now when playing with 4+ players the game sounds much smoother especially if you play 8-16 player matches. 8+ player matches felt like the game is trying to kill you with sound effects :) Not just that it sounds better but it also improves performance of the game which is especially important for the upcoming Android version.
  SFX of a type is not called more than once at a time and also the SFX volume is dynamically lowered by a % depending on how many players are playing
  

A little over a year ago Raining Blobs was released on Steam! Over 25 updates changed and improved the game so much that I could release Raining Blobs 2 now :)

Update brings:

Update brings:

New update brings:

I am happy to tell you that Android demo version is available at itch.io now!
https://rainingblobs.itch.io/raining-blobs

Take a look at Android gameplay with touch controls + gamepad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9CYE9mOwpc

Only thing left for Android version is rebinding of touch buttons in Options/Controls.

Waiting for your precious feedback!

Enjoy,
Endi

New small update brings:

• Rare Puzzle mode bug fixed thanks to your youtube videos. Girl background was changing when it shouldn't and even glitching in a rare case.
  
• Small Leaderboards, Stats and Variants screen tweaks.
  
• Game should be starting a bit faster now before the Loading appears.
  
• If player 1 plays with gamepad and enters Keyboard 1 or 2 setup screens he is stuck there unless the keys are rebound. Now you can press back button on gamepad to exit.
  
• Fixed small Puzzle leaderboards glitch because Pipiru made 10M+ and broke the layout :)
  
• 3 new screen effects in options. Unlike the original effects, these don't kill details and text remains readable.
  

New update brings:

Gallery was showing 7% unlocked even if nothing was unlocked and that is fixed with this update.



Enjoying the game? Writing short review would be very helpful. Thanks!

Here is quick fresh video of Xbox One version:
https://scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com/t50.2886-16/14587082_1177995828947269_7081911045400297472_n.mp4

New small update brings:

New big update brings:

20th update brings:

Update brings:

• When moving blobs, not only are the groups that are about to be cleared marked but also the garbage. This will give you better presentation about how the garbage is cleared and help you play more strategically.
  
• Overall SFX play improvements. Now you can hear more sounds play at once especially in 8+ player matches.
  
• Drop location small blobs are now different for blobs with stars and without stars.
  
• Some AI tweaks.
  
• When playing Puzzle mode now there is a counter on the board of how many puzzles you have solved.
  
• How To Play P1 controller layout with actions improvements.
  
• Minor menu tweaks and improvements.
  
• All textures repacked to minimize number of files and improve loading speed.
  

New update brings:

Small patch that improves gamepads handling.

Big update brings:

Proper game icon display on Mac and Linux.

Please let me know what this update improved for you and if it broke something.

And a GIF reminder of new Puzzle mode and achievements from last update:

Big update brings:

New update brings:

Small update brings:

Big update brings:

Update brings:

Update brings:

• By your request now you can choose around which blob to rotate in Options.
  
• Very rare fast drop bug fixed for good.
  

Small update with some quick fixes:

Latest update brings:

Small update brings some improvements and minor fixes:

New update brings:

Small update brings:

First update brings many UI improvements:

Some of you reported that the game is not working on Arch Linux.

I just updated Linux version and it should be working fine.
If the game is starting in windowed mode instead of full screen, go to Options and try changing in some of the Window Modes and go back to full screen.
In worst case it should be working fine in Windowed mode if it has issues in full screen. Full screen issue happens in some cases, I don't see it on my Linux.

More updates will be coming soon.

What a journey this was guys!
Windows, Mac and Linux builds are up on Steam and running perfectly fine!

Thanks from the bottom of my heart, I could never end this journey without companions like you!

Can't wait for Friday to come and embark on a new journey!

Endi Milojkoski