A downloadable game for Windows

PREMISE

Created for the Lost Cartridge Jam 2022, Goblinoid is a game which simulates a DOS game of the early 1990s, with a 16 color, 640x480 screen and OPL synthesis music.

You control Znog, a goblinoid which lives to eat small blue creatures known as Bloofings. Znog bounces around his subterranean realm, while eating Bloofings and avoiding ancient goblinoid traps.

You can only control Znog's horizontal movement, as he bounces off walls, moving up and down continuously.


- Features a rather unique bouncing gameplay mechanic
- 5 Areas with 5 levels each, adding up to 25 levels in total
- Can be played with cursor keys or gamepad/joystick
- Simulated EGA palette graphics and OPL music

 

KNOWN ISSUES

As a solo game jam game with minimal testing, I'm sure that some bugs slipped through. I have addressed all the issues I have been able to find thus far, but if anybody finds any more problems, please let us know in the comments section below.

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Goblinoid v1.1 (32bit) 31 MB
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Goblinoid v1.1 (64bit) 31 MB

Install instructions

Simply extract and run.

If, while trying to run the .exe file, you get a warning that this might be malicious software, it is a false positive due to not being a digitally signed application. The game has no malicious code, and the warning should only show up on the first run.

If you were to find this game on any site other than itch.io, however, all bets are off, since this is the only trusted site I have personally uploaded to.

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