More size makes you harder to eat, but it also makes you slower and makes you more likely to be targeted.
The decision to split your blob becomes a really profound decision: to grow bigger, you must first become smaller and more vulnerable. But as I've spent more and more time in the game, I've gotten really attached to the strategy of it, and the deeper meaning behind that strategy. It's one of the more addictive games I've played, I think because it's effectively real-time (multiplayer waits for no man) and the graphics and gameplay are so simple that it's easy to lose yourself in it. I've gotten really attached to the strategy of the gameĪll of the blobs are directed by actual people somewhere on the internet, often with racist usernames. It sounds complicated, but it makes sense pretty quickly once you start doing it.
There are also virus blobs that explode the bigger blobs, and if you hit "w" you'll eject your own pellets. That absorbing usually happens by splitting in two, which lets you launch out half your mass and swallow any small enough blobs in front of you. You're a blob, and you go around eating little pellets ("food") and absorbing blobs smaller than you without getting absorbed by a larger blob. I've stopped reading, watching movies - it's weird! I probably have a few more weeks until my interest burns out, or my loved ones get worried enough to stage an intervention. I started playing an online game called agar.io a few weeks ago, and by now it's swallowing up almost all my leisure time.