The Mysterious Adventures Of Timberbob

Android

Get it on Google Play (Or download the Android Application Package (APK) of the game directly from here.)
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About Timberbob

A picture of 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

Screenshot of the Timberbob Main Menu
Screenshot of an in-game scene

The History of Timberbob

Timbob Poster
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.

Picture of the 3rd place price
(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
1KaiBob3367
2chrizzobob3156
3MarcoBob3070
4KabalisiBob2977
5kevlaBob2672
6luciaBob2473
7Matbob1854
8KptnRotbartBob1740
9pippoBob1705
10GabiBob1698
11FaceBob1488
12luciaBob1432
13SpongeBob1346
14Marvbob1337
15chrizzobob1232
16PiratenPrinzessiBob1226
17Timbob1223
18OleBob1204
191337Leet0815Bob1183
20TestbeateBob998
21MoeBob990
22IlkaBob988
23TshewangBob973
24WoelkchenBob910
25MichaBob889
26Juergen244Bob850
27doleBob794
28HippiBob751
29chrizzobob747
30NamdosBob742
31AndiBob690
32Timbob660
33InikaBob649
34DarkMatterBob647
35FrequenzBob619
36FuckBob608
37Glcn4499Bob581
38NoraBob546
39phreeakBob544
40RootsMRBob532
41macbob510
42MaggieBob507
43dyeah1338Bob506
44WoelkchenBob505
45FluetkeBob504
46chrizzobob487
47TifBob487
48Lolli386Bob452
49jkBob448
50Bob446
51Timbob430
52HaraldBob427
53Timbob410
54Bob410
55MiezBob409
56OzdabozzBob405
57NikpecBob396
58Timbob393
59Timbob370
60ElabBob369
61ForcksBob363
62PASCALBob349
63rBob347
64Timbob346
65IvanBob346
66WoelkchenBob344
67FloooBob343
68NonrBob339
69SoAdBob327
70LolBob315
71AndiBob309
72POIKOPBob308
73webglbob308
74Bob302
75ABob302
76DddoBob295
77Sbrigo8Bob295
78Timbob289
79FeedBob284
80Timberbob283
81Testbob276
82Testbob276
83Testbob276
84albalitzBob271
85Bob270
86Timbob269
87DkkdkdBob264
88RobbBob259
89PandaPandaBob258
90AzranurBob258
91MariusBob254
92GeraldBob254
93NilsBob249
94IchBob245
95Bob244
96Bob243
97Bob241
98dhjedbjddBob231
99Bob219
100Timbob216

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



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