This is some genuinely innovative gameplay, really well done. Is it also God's punishment for me having a split keyboard? Perhaps.

Blobbert's a star, he's ready for the big time.

so how much does the 

Blobbert KeyBored

cost?

Novel control scheme. For better or worse, it has a strange relationship with the flip screen camera. I particularly enjoy the physics objects in the world and the oil slick painting onto surfaces (even onto the physics objects, pretty slick!)

Wild controls, as others have said, was there any games in particular your team leaned on for inspiration?
Feel like this control scheme could make a ton of interesting games.

Tqkes q ;inute to get used to the control sche;e qnd the q;ericqn keyboqrd< 
But once it's done, it's so wonderful.
Incredicool idea and superb execution, perfect jam scope. I loved playing blobbert, i love blobbert as a blob and as a bert, and i hope his days outside the lab are filled with discoverob and growthert.

I LOVE BLOBBERT. Big fan of this, super unique idea that I have not seen elsewhere. Funmathgames Carrion. Some of the puzzles later on felt a bit slow to complete, but this is small tweaks that would go a long way :) Keep Blobbing guys

Blob Blob cool mechanic… Blob.

Whooooa!!! This has the most originality of any of the games I have encountered in the jam I think!!! Are there any other games where control the character like this??? Very impressive!!!!!!

From a design standpoint, full-keyboard control scheme games are genius, with 'Keyboard Sports' being the absolute GOAT of the format. And here comes Blobbert, making a valiant attempt to come as close as possible and that from a game jam title!!

The art is unique and charming. The physics spectacle is fun to watch even on the first couple of screens when you’re not fully in control. There was one point where I mashed out “ouijhyghvcfddbcdvcdcdcbvnnmnkjioo089786” followed by “12dfr56987yuhghbvcdxsssw” in the next screen, which was really hilarious.

The soft-body movement and momentum feel are strong enough that once it “clicks,” you stop looking at the letters and start playing by hand shape (“Monkey Paw,” “Tiger Claw,” and “Hulk Smash”) and keyboard geography. The sync-up with what’s happening on screen is inventive, memorable, and bold. 

In addition to the visuals, a lot of effort went into building a finishable story with structured level design: corridors interluded with puzzle screens. The build-up is gradual enough, and the punishment of rolling back to previous screens is genuinely painful.

At some points accidental movements against objects make a sound, which is nice. What it misses, however, is some form of feedback or guidance through visual cues for all the other possibilities. Dripping water, glowing lights from the room above, or similar subtle hints are easy ways to help the player without feeling like a “GO HERE DO THIS” tutorial. Adding seemingly useless but reoccurring objects (like a companion cube blob) in rooms also encourages experimentation and happy accidents when placed strategically.

The only real catch is that the mechanic depends entirely on technical stability. When it runs well, it feels intentional and slick. When it doesn’t, it feels like Blobbert has unionized against the frame rate. The ambitious “press the entire keyboard” system also allows for brute-forcing edge cases, so input desync or stuck keys become very visible very quickly. But because the game is so visually and tonally joyful, it earns a ton of goodwill, enough that most players will overlook those issues. At least I did, even when it crashed at the end. Twice.

The core idea absolutely works. For a game jam, this is one of the most original entries, and despite the technical stress-test-layer doing its best impression of a hidden difficulty setting, it’s one of my favorites of this jam so far.

For a full version, the priorities are clear: stabilize performance, clamp the physics behavior, and add feedback. Then Blobbert stops being “funny but volatile” and becomes “brilliant and reliable”, which is a much more dangerous creature altogether.

Ps. I didn't test it, but do you support Dvorak, Azerty, etc.?

the whole control system being tied to specific keys has been the most unique game mechanic i have ever seen and honestly it made the game stand out so much! was super fun puzzle solving but i did have some lag spikes when the flammable chemicals exploded, but that did NOT detract from the game! overall fantastic job :)

I loved the way this controlled! This was a very fun and inventive game, one of the most unique of the jam. It had a great artstyle too. I was surprised at how much content you managed to pack in here while having the mechanics work perfectly. Great job!

This was super interesting! I really appreciate this one. I ended up "drawing" along my keyboard with 2 fingers almost like it was a touch screen to move blobbert around. I don't know if that's the intended way to do this but it was working out pretty well.

Unfortunately the fps starting tanking on me and the game eventually froze before I could finish it but I think I was getting pretty far.

Really cool idea, well done!

This was an amazing experience, very clever, very difficult until you give in to the button smashing. I did not know I was so unfamiliar with my keyboard until I played blobbert xD very well done, super polished, very charming, very slick. I played quite a few of the jam entries, this one is easily one of my favorites, it really shows that you had fun creating it, such a unique mechanic, I want to see more experimental mechanics like this in the games industry as a whole, very well done! Have a very good rating, well deserved! :)

Reminds me of QWOP, except actually fun. Was looking forward to this ever since I saw a bit of it on Bonejacq’s stream. Really fun ideas explored. I did get stuck at the first flammable beaker part, I thought the fire would hurt me and that I somehow needed to push the beaker to the flame. But making the trails leading to the beakers was pretty satisfying.

Blobbert is love! Love is Blobbert!