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Description

Blimps is an open-world adventure RPG that puts you in charge of an electric airship cargo delivery company. Armed with water, fire, ice cannons, and a couple of hangar Robots to help you on your way.

Can you learn to make it in this world of Blimps only to escape it? With a bit of perseverance, you might be the one to escape from this world of multiplying Blimps!

So take to the skies and safely deliver cargo, or try to pirate cargo from another blimp if you dare.

This rogue-lite puzzle game involves flying around, exploring, crafting, hacking, harvesting, smuggling, and racing to be the first to find the Moon Crystal. Complete 77 primary and 12 side missions and earn 11 passport stamps and 8 pilot wings.

Game Features:

Build a fortune with a Blimp Cargo Delivery Corporation:

  • Explore an Open World: Fly around discovering all the castles, mazes, mini-games, missions, ports, stores, and treasures in Blimps.
  • Equip and Repair: Equip your Blimp with upgrades and repair it from damage.
  • Load your Blimp with Cargo: You can load regular, precious, illegal, and stowaway cargo onto your Blimp and deliver it to currently trading stork ports.
  • Earn a Profit: Safely deliver cargo with your Blimp to trading stork ports. Smugglers of illegal and stowaway cargo, beware: You may get busted going through Eagle Eye Customs.
  • Choose Your Own Adventure Questions: Encounter events with different outcomes based on your decisions.
  • Encounter Weather Events: How do you navigate your Blimp when encountering random weather?
  • Dogfight Battles: Battle other Blimps in close combat skirmishes for their loot.
  • Become the King of the Seven Castle Kingdoms: Siege and defeat seven increasingly difficult castles to become the King of Blimps.
  • Battle Corporate Cash Cows: Defeat the Corporate Cash Cow Bosses!
  • Pilot a Submarine: Rent a submarine and trawl for Helium-3. Watch out for giant crabs!
  • Launch a Hot-Air Balloon: Navigate a hot-air balloon through a vast labyrinth full of obstacles, secrets, and treasures.
  • Drill down with an Earth Drill: Navigate a mini earth drill through a vast labyrinth full of obstacles, secrets, and treasures.
  • Craft items: Make items from floppy disks for your Blimp and other stuff…
  • Extract elements and crush carbon: Use your hangar’s lab to separate components from saltwater and minerals.
  • Mining Operations and Drilling Rigs: You can visit mining operations and drilling rigs to inspect and purchase valuable minerals and gases.
  • Build Solar Towns: Build four solar towns to receive a rental income.
  • Pneumatic tube mail Delivery: Send and receive incoming pneumatic tube mail. Pay the bills, receive rental income, get paid, collect stamps, and recycle junk mail.
  • Earn Captain Skill Points: Complete 12x side missions to earn captain skill points, which can be used to obtain bonus items.
  • Educate and Train Very Important People: Gather your expedition team and prepare them to help you escape.
  • Race Against Space Y, Nile X, And Sir Space to find the Moon Crystal:
  • Be the first to find the elusive Moon Crystal and win $1,000,000.
  • 77 Missions, 12 Side Missions, 11 Passport Stamps, and 8 Pilot Wings to earn: BLIMPS features 77 main missions, 12 side missions, 11 passport stamps, and 8 pilot wings that players can earn through dedicated gameplay.
  • Daffodil “Medal of Honor” Stamp: Retainers of this passport achievement stamp can complete the game in about 2 hours if they know what they are doing and are awarded a score bonus. Ed, one of the game designers, says, “BLIMPS can be completed in about 13 minutes if you are a good hacker and know what and when to do it, but you will not get the Daffodil ‘No cheat codes used’ achievement stamp score bonus.”

BLIMPS also features unique sound fx and an instrumental soundtrack performed by the band Ashtronaut.

The game features full gamepad controller support and can be played on a tablet/finger/pencil or keyboard/mouse device.

Pay once to get the whole BLIMPS experience. There are no ads, F2P mechanics, in-app purchases, or in-game data collection. Instead, it is just an old-school stand-alone offline family-friendly video game. It is Rated E for “Everyone.”

“We hope you enjoy the game. Thanks for playing!”
-Corinne & Ed
(co-game designers of Blimps)

History

Blimps was created by game designers Corinne and Ed. During the years they spent co-developing it, they taught themselves the necessary skills to produce the game’s music, art, programming, and design. The game was released on January 1, 2021.

They update the game on all available platforms with regular bug fixes and content/feature updates. There have been five major post-release updates – the first added the Office, Towns, and the Pigeon Post Pneumatic Tubes. The second expanded the end game, reorganized the pop-up inventory menus, and increased the total tasks to 77. The third major update (Feb. 2022) introduced partial gamepad controller functionality so players could fly their Blimps around the world “twin-stick shooter style.” The fourth major update (July 2023) added the Seven Diatonic Kingdoms. Players can now attempt to defeat seven increasingly difficult tower defense castles to become the King of Blimps. The fifth major update(November 2023) added many cutscenes to all the destinations in the world of Blimps. The sixth major update(December 2023) added full gamepad support, so players can now play the entire game with only a gamepad controller.

LOGOS

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CREDITS

GAME DESIGNER/CONCEPTS:

  • CORINNE F. BOHJANEN

GAME DESIGNER/PROGRAMMING:

  • EDWARD J. HOREY

ARTWORK TEAM:

  • EDWARD J. HOREY
  • CORINNE F. FENLAN
  • MAYA DEBSKI
  • ARDULUS
  • DEEP-FOLD
  • KNOBLE PERSONA
  • SAM VIENET
  • CRAFTPIX
  • NIGHTCAFE

MUSIC AND EFFECTS BY:

CONTACT

INQUIRIES:

ed [at] blimpsgame.com

TWITTER:

@blimpsgame

WEBSITE:

blimpsgame.com