Earl Bobby is looking for his Balls - Another Talky-

[Le Woltaire]

EARL BOBBY IS LOOKING FOR HIS BALLS - Talky version

The worlds most famous scottish Earl continues his quest for the sense of life.
And this time he is looking for something even more important than his shoes.
This time he is looking for his balls...yes, his balls.


STORY:

After Earl Bobby succeeded in finding his shoes, comb, kilt, golf clubs, car and ultimately the way there, he happily reached the Glenfiddich Golf Club to pursue one of his favorite diversions: Playing golf.

But soon he recognizes that his destiny to lose important items has followed him:
One of his balls gets robbed by a bird. When he tries to search for it, he soon gets involved in a complex plot, in which he has to face the famous golf player Tiger Woody in a tournament.

Baron Mucki the millionaire and Lula Hankingfire the young nymphomaniac will surely help him to win the contest. But this isn't enough. He will have to solve lots of weird puzzles to finally find his balls.

The Official Website:
http://www.bobbygame.com



DOWNLOAD TALKY VERSION HERE (29 MB):
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=download&game=846

Or use this MIRROR for the non-talky version (14 MB):
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=download&game=846&mirror=1
(thanks to Peder Johnsen for hosting this file)


NOTES:
- This game is a sequel to "Earl Bobby is looking for his Shoes"
 --> http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=18916.0
 You should play the first part of the game before you play this to have the background.

- Take a look at the manual before you play. There is some introduction there.

- You can play the game in german and english. Thanks to blashyrkh for the english proofread.

- The game is either a long medium lenght or a short full lenght game. It takes about 60 minutes to play it through with a walkthrough.

I hope you will enjoy this game.
Le Woltaire.

[thewalrus]

     Looks great.... I just downloaded and will be playing shortly.... Congrats, on getting this finished....

[Jon]

Downloading now, I enjoyed Earl Bobby is looking for his Shoes, and I hope to enjoy this as it is much longer.

[Peder 🚀]

This game is so brilliant!!

[jkohen]

Mensch, that Lula girl makes me want to become a golf player.

Great game! I've posted a review already, so I'm not going to say anything else here.

[sweet4grease]

How do I get up the mountain? I'm stuck

[jkohen]

How do I get up the mountain? I'm stuck

Ask in this forum.

[Footer]

Hi,
I've just finished the game, and let me say that it was not good....IT WAS ABSOLUTELY GREAT!!! Will there be some other episodes? When are you going to release them? I congratulate again, and, if I may say, I sometimes felt like I was playing a Mr. Bean game.

[Ubel]

I've played for like 5 minutes and already after watching the intro I fell in love with this game! It just looks so awesome!

The only thing so far that bothers me is that every time I click on something, the cursor mode changes to walk mode. So for example to look at everything in the room, I'll have to switch to the look-mode every time I click somewhere. I find this somewhat annoying and would appreciate if this feature could be removed.

Will comment more after playing a longer while.

[Le Woltaire]

The only thing so far that bothers me is that every time I click on something, the cursor mode changes to walk mode. So for example to look at everything in the room, I'll have to switch to the look-mode every time I click somewhere. I find this somewhat annoying and would appreciate if this feature could be removed.

Have you tried to play the game with shortcuts?
When you want to look at many things try to hold your
finger on the "L-key" and click around with your mouse.
I thought its comfortable...
Other shortcuts are in the Manual.

[Essex]

I've finished the game as well and I have to admit:
This is one of the best AGS games I have ever played.

First I thought it's a joke game, when I read the title.
But already after I looked at the intro and wandered around a bit
I understood, that it's a well composed adventure.
I really couldn't find any errors in it.

Admirations from my side.
I hope, that you will make other quality games like this.

[paolo]

I'm enjoying this game - so much to do and explore!

However it crashed on me today - I've posted in the tech forum but, for your information:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x00402423 ; program pointer is +5, ACI version 2.62.772, gtags (381,794)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.



Most versions of Windows allow you to press Ctrl+C now to copy this entire message to the clipboard for easy reporting.
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OK   
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Here's what I was doing at the time:

Spoiler

using the sugar shaker on the molehill

[close]

I don't know if this is related, but there seems to be another bug: when I went to save the game, I selected a previously saved game to overwrite, and the game hung. I was running the game in a window and had to close the window to quit the game. I reloaded the game I was going to overwrite and got the error when carrying out the above action.

[paolo]

Another bug, I think:

Spoiler

When you use an inventory item on the molehill, it is appears repeated several times across the screen.

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[paolo]

I tried loading an earlier saved game. This time

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I picked up the sugar shaker (using the "take" icon, not the plain "hand" icon) from my inventory and moved it over towards the molehill; even before I had had a chance to use it, the program crashed again.

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The error is similar:

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Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x00402423 ; program pointer is +5, ACI version 2.62.772, gtags (379,794)

[Le Woltaire]

Thank you for bug reporting.
But I couldn't reproduce any of these bugs on my system.
They all seem to be related to the molehill somehow...

Maybe the savegame you are using to restore the game is somehow broken...
Could you try to reproduce one of the bugs constantly by restarting the game?
If you can, send me some screenshots of what happens via PM or email.

Besides of that: You don't need to use the hand or take icon on your inventory
just click on an item in any cursor mode you want and it is always taken.

[paolo]

OK, thanks for letting me know.

[TheCheese33]

This looks rather interesting...

[Pit Brett]

Monsieur Le Woltaire,

I was wondering if Amazon is selling the Uiiiuiii-Song, but I couldn't find it. Maybe Earl Bobby could help me out?
As your golf buddy I have to say, that I liked the ironic details in your game (e.g. "Erlernen Sie diesen wunderbaren Sport") as well as the character animation, sounds and graphics. This was the funniest game I played in years. Keep up the good work!

Greetings

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I'm not really enjoying this game, mostly because of the puzzles, but I just had to pop in and say that, despite not having a lot of fun with the game, I find the amount of work and detail gone into it remarkable, and most of all I find your choice of music bloody brilliant. Brilliant, ayuh. It's a pleasure to listen to, great choices.

EDIT - Also, I have to admit to a couple of chuckles. The humour in the game didn't particularly do anything for me, but I found myself surprised by a couple of situations - including the ending, which, I admit, is very good, possibly the only possible ending.

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Which, unlike some other games I might mention *coughNightOfTheHermitcough* actually gives the player a sense of achievement, even though in the end he did NOT get his ball back AND managed to lose the new golf club!

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I say again, I didn't not particularly enjoy *playing* the game, but - I hope this makes sense - I surely appreciated it, in many places.

EDIT 2 (after the reply posted below) - I have to say I'm particularly picky as regards puzzles, so maybe it's just me. I know for a fact plenty of people at the Hints and Tips thought it was hard but fair, and great. Also, I hate Wretched's puzzles, and some people love them. So it's ultimately a matter of opinion, which is why I said they prevented me from really enjoying the game - and left it at that, without expanding.

Overall, good on you for releasing it, it's a major step forward from EBLHShoes, and I darsay you can only get better. I really am looking forward to your next game.

[Le Woltaire]

I'm not really enjoying this game, mostly because of the puzzles...

I feel sorry for this...
I knew that some of the puzzles are quite absurd.
When I finished the game and showed it to some friends (actually non  adventure players) they wondered if anybody could solve this kind of puzzles... They found it somehow childy and wondered why I spend my time making such a stuff.

That's why I thought for a while, if the game is worth a release.
But I know, that I will have to spend more time in puzzle developing for my next game...maybe a bit more rational and less quirky.