The Game Called Bob

Bob was my third game developer independently, I was always a big fan of the game Pang on the amiga and the basic gameplay is a cut down version of pang without levels. I had been reading a book called Flash 8 game development and there was a whole chapter on bouncing balls, so a lot of the game was made by sing that tutorial and altering it. The book was by Glen Rhodes and is a good one to start with although I have learnt since then that a lot of how I made those games wasnt a good way of doing it and created a lot of bugs I had to bodge around.

The game never scored well on any portal but has been great on plays and is still one of my top earners on mochiads. Its done around 4.5 million plays with over a million of those coming from my little arcade portal robotjamgames.

So why is it called “the game called bob” ?

I finished the game and was going through the “what shall I call it” routine and asked a load of people on a forum, I got th usual “pandamonium”, “pandaBalls” etc but the someone said it should be called Bob, hence “the game called bob”.