About Timberbob

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.

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 139 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	Bob	446
51	Timbob	430
52	HaraldBob	427
53	Timbob	410
54	Bob	410
55	MiezBob	409
56	OzdabozzBob	405
57	NikpecBob	396
58	Timbob	393
59	Timbob	370
60	ElabBob	369
61	ForcksBob	363
62	PASCALBob	349
63	rBob	347
64	Timbob	346
65	IvanBob	346
66	WoelkchenBob	344
67	FloooBob	343
68	NonrBob	339
69	SoAdBob	327
70	LolBob	315
71	AndiBob	309
72	POIKOPBob	308
73	webglbob	308
74	Bob	302
75	ABob	302
76	DddoBob	295
77	Sbrigo8Bob	295
78	Timbob	289
79	FeedBob	284
80	Timberbob	283
81	Testbob	276
82	Testbob	276
83	Testbob	276
84	albalitzBob	271
85	Bob	270
86	Timbob	269
87	DkkdkdBob	264
88	RobbBob	259
89	PandaPandaBob	258
90	AzranurBob	258
91	MariusBob	254
92	GeraldBob	254
93	NilsBob	249
94	IchBob	245
95	Bob	244
96	Bob	243
97	Bob	241
98	dhjedbjddBob	231
99	Bob	219
100	Timbob	216

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

References

• Our jam site, hosted by the great guys of Digital Media Lab - join us next year!
• "Into Pieces" at Google Play Store - Our contribution to Global Game Jam 2014.
• "Hell Invaders" at Google Play Store - Our contribution to Global Game Jam 2016.
• "Hell Invaders" can also be played right in your browser, by the way.
• Unity - the game engine we used!
• This guy makes awesome royalty-free music and we used two if his songs in this game. (See credits for details.)
• A library of free sounds - many of them are in the Public Domain. Some of our sound effects came from here.
• Operating System icons from the great guys at Icon8.com.
• For the WebGL Player we used the fancy Colorbox by Jack Moore.
• hmmh - generous sponsors of our jam site who provided prizes for the 3 best games. (Thanks!!!)
• Contact Software - another great sponsor of our jam site who provided pizza and fritz-kola for all the jammers. (Thanks!!!)

That's it, folks. Let's get back to the top!

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