Bluppo
Encyclopedia
Bluppo is a scrolling
tile-based
computer puzzle game
developed
in 1996 for MS-DOS
PCs
by Matija Tomaskovic and Bruno Babic. The game was published
by Webfoot Technologies
. Bluppo is a clone of Boulder Dash
, and offers more features, including new gameplay
ideas combined with improved graphics and sounds. The game was coded in more than 20,000 lines of assembly language
code.
in order to exit to another level
, completing 80 levels in total. While doing this, the player must avoid falling boulders and nasty sturgeon
, as well as conserving oxygen
. There are also 80 levels for two players. As the game progresses, levels quickly become more difficult to play, making for frantic games as the player plots the quickest way to the exit before his oxygen runs out.
Scrolling
In computer graphics, filmmaking, television production, and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display. "Scrolling", as such, does not change the layout of the text or pictures, or but incrementally moves the user's view across what is...
tile-based
Tile-based game
A tile-based game is a game that uses tiles as one of the fundamental elements of play. Traditional tile-based games use small tiles as playing pieces for gambling or entertainment games...
computer puzzle game
Computer puzzle game
Puzzle video games are a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles to be solved can test many problem solving skills including logic, strategy, pattern recognition, sequence solving, and word completion....
developed
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...
in 1996 for MS-DOS
MS-DOS
MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...
PCs
IBM PC compatible
IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...
by Matija Tomaskovic and Bruno Babic. The game was published
Video game publisher
A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer....
by Webfoot Technologies
Webfoot Technologies
Webfoot Technologies is a developer of personal computer games and video games for varied platforms. Titles released include "Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals" and "Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku" for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance....
. Bluppo is a clone of Boulder Dash
Boulder Dash
Boulder Dash, originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers, is a series of computer games released for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and many other platforms...
, and offers more features, including new gameplay
Gameplay
Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. Gameplay is the pattern defined through the game rules, connection between player and the game, challenges and overcoming them, plot and player's connection with it...
ideas combined with improved graphics and sounds. The game was coded in more than 20,000 lines of assembly language
Assembly language
An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices. It implements a symbolic representation of the machine codes and other constants needed to program a given CPU architecture...
code.
Game objects
The goal of Bluppo is to collect certain number of fishFish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in order to exit to another level
Level (computer and video games)
A level, map, area, or world in a video game is the total space available to the player during the course of completing a discrete objective...
, completing 80 levels in total. While doing this, the player must avoid falling boulders and nasty sturgeon
Sturgeon
Sturgeon is the common name used for some 26 species of fish in the family Acipenseridae, including the genera Acipenser, Huso, Scaphirhynchus and Pseudoscaphirhynchus. The term includes over 20 species commonly referred to as sturgeon and several closely related species that have distinct common...
, as well as conserving oxygen
Oxygen
Oxygen is the element with atomic number 8 and represented by the symbol O. Its name derives from the Greek roots ὀξύς and -γενής , because at the time of naming, it was mistakenly thought that all acids required oxygen in their composition...
. There are also 80 levels for two players. As the game progresses, levels quickly become more difficult to play, making for frantic games as the player plots the quickest way to the exit before his oxygen runs out.
External links
- Mataya Home Page - Bluppo - The author's Bluppo page
- Webfoot Technologies Inc.