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There was this point-and-click educational PC game I remember playing in grade school back in the 90's. I can't remember the title, but I remember the plot: there were these little round aliens called 'Bumps' who were basically a bunch of multicolored round blobs with googly eyes and mouths. They were flying in a spaceship and crashlanded on earth, and their spaceship got taken by this young girl who dragged it back to her shed. The Bumps meet up with this little nerdy rat character who tells them that their spaceship is inside the shed, and the girl was an artist who would probably turn it into a sculpture or something, so he helps the Bumps get inside the shed through various physics-based puzzles- using different-sized Bumps to move and lift objects, weigh different things down, and balance platforms to get across to their goal. It was all done in cartoony 2-D graphics, with (I think) pre-rendered 3D backgrounds, like some of the Jumpstart games.
I remember the Bumps being featured in at least one other, similar game too, one that was themed around an alien carnival where you played different games with the Bumps and some other aliens too- the only ones I remember are this one "villain" who looked like a purple anteater who sucked up Bumps through his snout, and a yellow dragon-like Ringmaster character.