This is the story of Timberbob, a little tree who was living in a
forest, quite peacefully. Until one day a mad lumberjack appeared in
his forest and chopped down all the trees around. When Timberbob was
slain, he managed to escape by rolling down a hill, right into a nearby
river. Carefully, Timberbob protected his last living leaf, a green
piece of hope which may help him found a new forest if he ever escapes
the lumberjack's madness. And this is where YOU come in: By carefully
controlling the waves of the river, YOU may be Timberbobs only chance
of taking his precious little leaf to safety...
How to Play
Basically, all you have to do is put your finger on the screen and swipe
up and down to raise and lower the water. Depending on your speed, the
water rises faster or slower, resulting in different wave behaviour.
Sounds easy, right? Well, it is not. Here, have a video to illustrate:
Screenshots
The History of Timberbob
Timberbob is a video game which was initially created in less then 48
hours during Global Game Jam 2017. (The original version including
source code
can be obtained here.)
When the word "waves" was announced to be the theme of the jam,
we explored a number of ideas reaching from soundwaves to weird
political jokes. Pretty early on, we grew fond of the idea to
use a wave as the player character. The raw concept of Timberbob
was developed within the last 15 minutes of our brainstorming
session, after discussing a very different idea in much detail
for about an hour. And that's it. We scribbled a sketch, put it
on the wall and got to work.
At the end of the jam, Timberbob reached third place during a
best-game-of-the-jam-on-site voting.
(Thank you so much, everyone!
And congratulations to the teams behind Sonar
and WildSea
who made it to first and second place!!! The bat noises are incredibly cute!!!)
However, we took the liberty of making
some minor adjustments (mostly bugfixing, though) and release the
above Android and PC versions of the game subsequently.
Please make sure to
have a look at all the other lovely games which have been created at
our jam site at the University of Bremen, Germany. You may find a list of all the games here and
some information
about the jam site here. And, of course, make sure to
participate next year! There might be a jam site nearby!
Builds for other Devices
Loosely based on the ratio of your interest to our motivation, there
might be builds for other devices coming sooner or later. If you want to
receive the latest news or get in contact with us to beg for a build
for your respective device, please meet
us on Facebook.
High Scores - Top 100 Players
Timberbob is a single player game. However, your scores and
your chosen player names are
submitted to our high score list. Below, you can see the best of all 134 players of Timberbob from all over the world.
Rank
Player Name
Score
1
KaiBob
3367
2
chrizzobob
3156
3
MarcoBob
3070
4
KabalisiBob
2977
5
kevlaBob
2672
6
luciaBob
2473
7
Matbob
1854
8
KptnRotbartBob
1740
9
pippoBob
1705
10
GabiBob
1698
11
FaceBob
1488
12
luciaBob
1432
13
SpongeBob
1346
14
Marvbob
1337
15
chrizzobob
1232
16
PiratenPrinzessiBob
1226
17
Timbob
1223
18
OleBob
1204
19
1337Leet0815Bob
1183
20
TestbeateBob
998
21
MoeBob
990
22
IlkaBob
988
23
TshewangBob
973
24
WoelkchenBob
910
25
MichaBob
889
26
Juergen244Bob
850
27
doleBob
794
28
HippiBob
751
29
chrizzobob
747
30
NamdosBob
742
31
AndiBob
690
32
Timbob
660
33
InikaBob
649
34
DarkMatterBob
647
35
FrequenzBob
619
36
FuckBob
608
37
Glcn4499Bob
581
38
NoraBob
546
39
phreeakBob
544
40
RootsMRBob
532
41
macbob
510
42
MaggieBob
507
43
dyeah1338Bob
506
44
WoelkchenBob
505
45
FluetkeBob
504
46
chrizzobob
487
47
TifBob
487
48
Lolli386Bob
452
49
jkBob
448
50
Timbob
430
51
HaraldBob
427
52
Bob
410
53
Timbob
410
54
MiezBob
409
55
OzdabozzBob
405
56
NikpecBob
396
57
Timbob
393
58
Timbob
370
59
ElabBob
369
60
ForcksBob
363
61
PASCALBob
349
62
rBob
347
63
Timbob
346
64
IvanBob
346
65
WoelkchenBob
344
66
FloooBob
343
67
NonrBob
339
68
SoAdBob
327
69
LolBob
315
70
AndiBob
309
71
webglbob
308
72
POIKOPBob
308
73
Bob
302
74
ABob
302
75
DddoBob
295
76
Sbrigo8Bob
295
77
Timbob
289
78
FeedBob
284
79
Timberbob
283
80
Testbob
276
81
Testbob
276
82
albalitzBob
271
83
Bob
270
84
Timbob
269
85
DkkdkdBob
264
86
RobbBob
259
87
PandaPandaBob
258
88
AzranurBob
258
89
GeraldBob
254
90
MariusBob
254
91
NilsBob
249
92
IchBob
245
93
Bob
243
94
dhjedbjddBob
231
95
Bob
219
96
Timbob
216
97
perezzdbBob
208
98
XyBob
207
99
LucyJeiBob
207
100
OleBob
203
Information Privacy
Our game does not reval any of your personal data to us - except, of course,
for your chosen player name and your scores. The 10 highest scores you achieved are
stored on your device. The highest score is sent to our server after each round you played.
Your MAC address
(basically, a unique identifier for your device) is encrypted by applying a
hash function.
The result is used to update your score on our high score table. However, we cannot decrypt the
address and therefore not link your player name to your device. For our German users, we provide more
information about Information Privacy in our Datenschutzerklärung
