An Alarmingly Violent Mermaid Monday

One of my favorite parts of Blowfish Meets Meteor is that the game constantly lets you pop sea creatures. You get to pop blowfish with a meteor — a meteor! — and you get to use the powerups that fall out of their withered balloon-skin husks to pop other things with even greater temerity. You pop electric eels with sentient oyster school supplies. Your mermaid daughters pop octopi with sewing needles the size of their forearms. You’ll pop piranhas — a lot of them — with torpedoes and dynamite and laser beams. At one point, you pop a straight-up Pinocchio whale — from the inside.

And we made it satisfying. Really, really satisfying. Because popping sea creatures is the literal, singular future of video games, and we built Blowfish Meets Meteor from the ground-up to be the best place in existence to do it.

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Mermaid children carry tiny pins. Sometimes, they’re for sewing. Other times, they’re for mercilessly popping sea creatures.

A Particularly Ominous Mermaid Monday

Given that Piranhas are the primary grunt enemy for most of Blowfish Meets Meteor, it was only a matter of time before they infiltrated Mermaid Mondays. You’ll spend a lot of the game destroying these gigantic, villainous fish by any means necessary, be it with sentient sticks of TNT, gigantic laser beams, explosive torpedoes, or any number of other weapons. Sometimes, you’ll even drop zombies on them.

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Giant piranhas positively adore the taste of mermaid flesh. Adore.

Blowfish Meets Meteor is coming soon to the iPhone and iPad.

Mermaid Monday: Comapnionship

Today, we learn about a Mermaid’s best friend.

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Mermaids keep sea lions as pets. They tried dogs once, but that didn’t last long.

Remember: Blowfish Meets Meteor is coming soon to iOS — that’s both the iPhone and the iPad! We’ll have many more announcements on the release of the game in the near future.

A Month of Mermaid Mondays

Nearly a month ago, we launched an initiative we’re fondly referring to as “Mermaid Mondays.” In a lot of ways, Blowfish Meets Meteor revolves around these goofy little whipper-snappers – after all, the whole purpose of the game is to rescue them from all manner of ridiculous scenarios. Over the course of creating the game, we’ve spent countless hours doing just that, as well as cuddling them, arming them with mallets, and crushing them under the weight of zombified battleship corpses. Through it all, we’ve always imagined them as having lives that expand outside the boundaries of our humble little video game. They love to paint; they’re diligent students at their underwater fish schools; they hate octopi (octopuses?) We started drawing Mermaid Mondays to explore that idea more thoroughly.

Here are the first four.

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Oyster backpacks are a Mermaid’s favorite schoolyard accessory; their cuteness, like, totally offsets their tendency to projectile-vomit their contents.

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Mermaid children all look the same. No one knows why, but it’s certainly not a memory issue.

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Mermaids hate it when their glass dome-houses shatter, but the view is worth the risk. Right?

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Mermaid + human = mermaid? Genetics are weird.