The PKGBUILD is out-of-date and has not been updated by the maintainer.

Apply this patch to update it:

3a4
> # Contributor: Michael Witten <mfwitten>
6c7
< pkgver=1.11
---
> pkgver=1.14
13,14c14,15
< source=(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/blobwars/blobwars-1.11-1.tar.gz)
< md5sums=('4da5ec26e0a865a58e3acfeb2e48d3e2')
---
> source=(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/8e7e15b2/blobwars/blobwars-1.14-1.tar.gz)
> md5sums=('c4133a08d49d63b518e70d67b88fb8be')

The result would be:

# $Id: PKGBUILD 82 2009-07-17 19:56:55Z aaron $
# Maintainer: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: geekitus
# Contributor: Michael Witten <mfwitten>

pkgname=blobwars
pkgver=1.14
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Platform action game featuring a variety of different
weaponry and multiple objectives"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects/blobWars.php"
license=('GPL')
depends=('sdl_image' 'sdl_mixer' 'sdl_ttf')
source=(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/8e7e15b2/blobwars/blobwars-1.14-1.tar.gz)
md5sums=('c4133a08d49d63b518e70d67b88fb8be')

build() {
cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
sed -i -e 's/-g games//' -e 's/-Werror//' makefile
make || return 1
make PREFIX=${pkgdir}/usr BINDIR=${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ install
sed -i 's/Game;/Game;ArcadeGame;/'
${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/blobwars.desktop
}

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com> wrote:
> The PKGBUILD is out-of-date and has not been updated by the maintainer.
>
> Apply this patch to update it:
>

thanks, it's building now.

Ronald