BLOUMA – remake for Windows (Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit)
Version 0.1.0.9, 2026-11-08 (repo 903a3dfb). The whole public demo.

Blouma is a game by -JS- (https://blouma.eu), made with Game Editor. This is a remake that
runs his game with the same rules and picture (320x200, sharp square pixels), made with
his permission.


INSTALLER OR PORTABLE ZIP

There are two forms of the same game; pick one.

  ...-setup.exe      installs for your Windows user only (no administrator rights):
                     %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Blouma Demo, a Start-menu entry
                     "Blouma Demo" and (if ticked) a desktop shortcut. Uninstall in
                     Settings > Apps, or with uninstall.exe in that folder.
  ...-portable.zip   nothing to install: unzip the whole folder anywhere (not just
                     blouma.exe: it needs the data folder next to it) and double-click
                     blouma.exe. Everything stays in that folder (see SAVES AND LOG).

Windows may warn about an unknown publisher ("Windows protected your PC"): click
"More info", then "Run anyway". The program and the installer are not signed.

The window opens maximized; the picture uses the largest whole multiple of 320x200 that
fits. Options (in a shortcut's "Target" field or from cmd / PowerShell):

  blouma.exe --fullscreen   fullscreen (Alt+Enter switches back and forth at any time)
  blouma.exe --scale 3      a window of exactly 3x 320x200 (960x600)
  blouma.exe --console      show the program's messages in the console
  blouma.exe --help --console   all options

KEYS

  Arrow keys        walk / sail / swim (Up/Down: step back/front, swim up/down)
  CTRL              touch / use; CTRL + arrow = run, swim fast
  SPACE             special action      ALT   look at (info)
  TAB               spit / big bubble   H     hide (when Blouma can)
  1-6               inventory slot, 7 switches things/skills;
                    then BACKSPACE = left click, ENTER = right click
  F1                menu: L load, O new game, Q quit
  F2                menu: T setup, S save, I info
  F11               show health
  Mouse             works too (inventory, menus; click the title BLOUMA top left
                    = F1, right click = F2)
  Esc               quits at once, like the original (no question)
  Alt+Enter         fullscreen on/off at any time

SOUND

Music plays on the default sound device. Without one the game runs silently.

  blouma.exe --mute             no sound
  blouma.exe --original-audio   music like the original (11025 Hz mono, no smoothing);
                                default is 48 kHz stereo with interpolation


SAVES AND LOG

Settings, "GO ON?" and SAVE GAME are kept in a folder "saves", the program's messages
of the last start in "blouma.log" – please send that file with any bug report to
whoever gave you this game. Where they are:

  portable (portable.txt next to blouma.exe):
      saves\ and blouma.log in the game's own folder. Copy the folder to a USB stick
      and your games go with it. If the folder is not writable (for example inside
      C:\Program Files) the game says so and uses the place below instead.
  installed (or portable.txt deleted):
      %APPDATA%\blouma-remake\saves and %APPDATA%\blouma-remake\blouma.log
      (type that into the Explorer address bar). Uninstalling asks whether to delete
      them; the default keeps them.

Delete the saves folder to start like a new installation.

  blouma.exe --fresh            nothing is read or saved (this run only)
  blouma.exe --save-dir DIR     save somewhere else
  blouma.exe --strict           exactly like the original, without the remake's small fixes
  blouma.exe --lang cs          texts in Czech (en = readable English, the default;
                                blouma = JS's original English)

Licences of the included software: LICENSES\.
