Bejeweled Blitz (PC)

The PC version of Bejeweled Blitz was the fourth game of popular match-3 puzzle series. The sequel was built directly upon this game. It had only one game mode: Blitz. The players are given only 60 seconds to score as many points as possible. The players could collect coins to buy various powerups to help increase their score. It had better graphics than its Facebook Flash game counterpart, but lacked some features such as Rare Gems or Daily Spins. Those features were promised to be added sometime in 2011. However...

As with the most of PopCap's other games, this game packs most of the resources to a single file named "main.pak". You can extract the resources by using QuickBMS with this plugin.

This game has 3 known versions: 1.0.6.4034 (Initial release), 1.0.6.7260 (Most popular), and 1.0.9.7400 (Final version with new powerup selector), but as far as I know, all unused materials are identical between versions.

Unused Graphics
This game has several unused graphics. Their purposes are unknown.

Carried over to the sequel
These graphics were carried over to the sequel, still unused.

Doom Gem


Possible leftover from Bejeweled Twist.

Exclusive to this game
These graphics weren't carried to the sequel.

Dragon Stone


Possibly a special gem that causes some effect when destroyed?

Mouse


An image of mouse.

Snackers


Snackers is Popcap co-founder and Bejewelled creator Jason Kapalka's cat. In the Flash version of the game, she shows up when "Cat's Eye" Rare Gem is used. None of the other Rare Gems graphics exist in the game, so this graphic was possibly intended for a plain cameo appearance, like in Bejeweled Twist.

Unused Sounds
These sound effects were later used in the sequel, but the format was converted to wav.

replay_popup.ogg
In Bejeweled Twist and Bejeweled 3's Classic modes, this sound will be played when the "Instant Replay" button appear. There's no Instant Replay button in this game.

voice_gameover.ogg
"Game Over" voice. There's only a "Time Up" voice at the end of the game.

voice_levelcomplete.ogg
"Level Complete" voice. This game has no level-based modes.

Unused Text
Recycle ideas from: - The Alchemist - FL Studio MiscCues - Surreal (the old tracker song) - Theatre Noiren bondibiisi Music types needed: - Classic - Zen - Blitz - Various puzzle tracks? The music file (music/Bejeweled3_suite.it) has the above comments.