BLOAT

https://corypearl.itch.io/bloat

An arcade survival game where your score isn’t a number — it’s a physical body that drags behind you, ruins your turning, and gives enemies more to hit.
The better you do, the worse it gets.

• Jam theme: Growing
• Made by: Cory Pearl

Results

Criteria	Rank	Score
Idea Execution	#1	4.462
Fun Factor	#3	4.154
Effort	#3	4.462
Creativity	#23	3.769
Innovation	#33	3.231
Overal	#4	4.061

How to play

• Turn: A/D or ←/→
• Shed: Space (4s cooldown, requires length ≥ 6)
• Pause: Esc
• Restart run: R
• From pause / game over: Space returns to main menu

The core mechanic (why it’s fun)

• Collect pickups to gain segments.
• Your length is your multiplier: every pickup scores (10 ×) your current length.
• More length = worse handling: turning gets slower as you grow.
• Enemies target your body: they chase the closest part of you (head or any segment).
• Shed to survive: when ready, Space drops about half your body to regain speed; dropped segments linger briefly as fading obstacles before dissolving.

Win / lose

• Lose if you collide with an enemy, your own body, or recently-shed segments.
• Goal: survive and keep clearing waves (the game counts up; wave 100 is treated as the “you made it” milestone).

Running the game

macOS (build from source)

This project uses raylib and plain C.

1. Install raylib (Homebrew):

brew install raylib

2. Build + run using the included script:

./run.sh

If you prefer, the command it runs is:

gcc bloat.c -o bloat -I/opt/homebrew/include -L/opt/homebrew/lib -lraylib
./bloat

Windows (prebuilt)

• Run bloat.exe from the project root.
• The raylib-win/ folder contains raylib headers/libs used for Windows builds.

Web (WASM)

The WebAssembly build artifacts live in bloat-wasm/:

• index.html, index.js, index.wasm, index.data
• A packaged build: bloat-wasm/bloat_wasm.zip

To run locally, serve the folder (browser security blocks file:// WASM loads):

cd bloat-wasm
python3 -m http.server 8080

Then open http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

Project layout

• bloat.c: the full game source (gameplay, UI screens, audio, entities)
• run.sh: quick build/run for macOS (raylib via Homebrew)
• bloat-wasm/: WebAssembly build output
• design/: jam/itch page mockups and UI design HTML
• menu.mp3, game.mp3, pickup.wav, shed.wav, sound.png: game audio + UI asset

Tech

• Language: C (raylib)
• Rendering / input / audio: raylib

Credits & third‑party

• Game / code / design: Cory Pearl
• Engine/library: raylib — Copyright (c) 2013–2024 Ramon Santamaria

raylib-win/LICENSE contains raylib’s zlib/libpng license.

License

No explicit license is included for the game code/assets in this repo.
By default, assume all rights reserved for the game content, and refer to raylib’s license for the bundled raylib-win/ distribution.