Earl Bobby is looking for his Balls - Another Talky-

[sthomannch]

Hi Woltaire!
The puzzles are good and the game is excellent! I am still playing it and have a good laugh every now and then. Please don't abandon this road.

But I think I found a bug. If I work on the puzzles in a certain order, I get stuck. I restarted and just changed the order of a few actions and could continue. I got stuck here

Spoiler

no hotspot on Woody's car, so I could not make a slingshot

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I did not try every possible route, so I do not know what action was responsible for this bug.

BTW: I hope to see more games like this.

[sthomannch]

Finished it!
Excellent, including the finale with the FAQ and the nice music. Rating: +++

[Le Woltaire]

The new beta is out ( v0.8 ).
Redownload it if you had the hotspot problem.

The hotspot bug that prevented some of you finishing the game is fixed.
You can import your old savegame into the new version.
Just reenter the parking lot and everything should work.
I apologize for this problem...

[nulluser]

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[Ulla]

Thank you for a good laugh!
I finished the game.
It was very hard.
But I did it without looking into the hints section.
Some great ideas and great humour I think.

[Le Woltaire]

I just tried to make a talky version of the game.
I didn't have any voice actors so I tried to make all voices by myself.
But I think it's totally freaky what I did and trash in some way.


Things I did to make my voice sound different:

EARL BOBBY: Moved my nose and the micro to make the voice sound a bit quirky. Tried to talk a bit higher than normal.

TIGER WOODY: Tried to talk as serious and deep as I could. Mostly with open wided mouth.

GREENKEEPER: Smoked two ciggarres (I'm not a smoker) and stuffed some pieces of bread in my mouth. Tried to talk very deep.

MARY HANKINGFIRE: Talked as terrible and high as possible with a possibly aggressive note.

LULA HANKINGFIRE: Talked as high and sweet as possible. With some kind of lovely flair.

BARKEEPER: My normal voice.

BARON MUCKI: Tried to talk with an extreme German accent (southern Germany) and a bit deeper than normal.

BIMBO: Tried to simulate an African accent with my normal voice.


Like in the voice acting of the first part I'm not sure if my English is good enough to be understood. But I hope it adds some atmosphere to the game...

If you have any suggestions how to improve or would like to play the voice acting for one of the characters instead of me, just say.

[m0ds]

Very nice game! Haven't gotten very far myself though. I'd be happy to record some voices for you,  greenkeeper or barman PM me. You actually do a great voice for earl!!!

[Ionias]

Just played it and the voices make the game really fun. I'm enjoying the game so far, my only complaint is some of the hotspots are rather small and the inventory and mouse cursors don't show the cross hairs to pin point them. This normally wouldn't be much of a problem but every time an action doesn't work it resets the mouse mode to walk, just a tad frustrating. Just a small nit pick however as the game is great!

[Le Woltaire]

Hi Ionias,

I just recognized that you are the sixt person that mentioned that my game gui is a bit annoying.
So I decided to change it. I uploaded a version of the game, that doesn't jump back to walk mode after clicking. So this should work a bit better for the game play...
The new version can be downloaded via the mainlink. 

[Fleshstalker]

Hey Le Woltaire, did you upload it to your website site as well? Sadly I downloaded the game yesterday afternoon on my slow 2.5kbps (took about 3 hours). Looks like I will have to do this again. 

Oh almost forgot to ask, this change in the gui affect both the non talkie version right? So both talkie and non-talkie have the new gui update.

One last question, are you gonna also change the gui in Earl Bobby is looking for his shoes as well or are you gonna keep it like that?

[Le Woltaire]

To answer the questions:

The non talkie version is hosted by Peder Johnsen and still contains the old GUI.
The talkie version is hosted by me and contains the new slightly changed GUI.

I can upload a non talkie with the new GUI as well if it's demanded...

I didn't think about changing the GUI in Earl Bobby is looking for his Shoes, because no one complained about it and it's a rather short game. I understood that in a larger game my GUI is annoying. I think my old GUI makes sense in a game that basically consists of one scrolling room because you have to walk around a lot and therefore the walk mode is of major importance...

However I didn't mention that it is now possible to switch back into the walk mode directly with the middle mouse button.

Apart from that a simple walkthrough of the game can be found on the walkthrough section of my homepage now.

[Fleshstalker]

Well, that saved me some time having to redownload the original non talky version since it doesn't have the new gui. Not that it bugs me, I think it's fine the way it is. I guess the talky version makes it special with the new gui.

As for Bobby Shoes, your right it's a short game, so the gui is of no problem.