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Oodlegobs

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Oodlegobs
Oodlegobs icon.png
Description
Navigate your swarm throughout the mainframe and defeat mew tube!
Information
Developer
Nitrome
No. of players
1
Total levels
15
Genres
  • Puzzle
  • Platform
Control scheme
  • Instr-keyboard.png Keyboard
Released
Adobe Flash Flash
29 August 2013
Links
Order

Oodlegobs is a puzzle-platform game released on August 29th, 2013 for Flash and Nitrome Touchy. The player plays as a colony of computer viruses called Oodlegobs as they try to invade and destroy the MewTube company.

Controls[edit | edit source]

Flash[edit | edit source]

Left.png Right.png - Move left/right
Space.png - Jump
Down.png - Lead all Oodlegobs to one Oodlegob
Up.png - Cause Oodlegobs to climb on top of each other

Touchy[edit | edit source]

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Gameplay[edit | edit source]

The main concept of the game is for the player to command the group of Oodlegobs, safely transporting as many as possible from one end of the stage to the other. The player will start from an oodlegobs hive with a small group of Oodlegobs, or even just one Oodlegob (mostly in the earlier stages). Placed throughout levels are cats, which are consumed to increase the amount of Oodlegobs in the player's party.

Levels of the game often require that the player interact with various buttons in order to open the necessary exit out of the room into another room. Throughout the game the player may have to split Oodlegobs into groups and go to multiple areas in order to advance.

Levels[edit | edit source]

Oodlegobs has 15 levels.

Introduction[edit | edit source]

File:Oodlegobs - Introduction

Level 1[edit | edit source]

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Level 3[edit | edit source]

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Level 4[edit | edit source]

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Level 5[edit | edit source]

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Ending[edit | edit source]

Penguin 1.png This collapsible box contains a spoiler! Use [show] to reveal.

Several screens with cats on them disappear, switching to a screen of a giant computer with a distressed cat face, as many Oodlegobs are around its base. One Oodlegobs says to the player "Now we can start a new empire of cooking blogs!"
File:Oodlegobs - Ending

The cat in the ending

Hazards[edit | edit source]

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Interactive objects[edit | edit source]

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Development[edit | edit source]

Oodlegobs first started as a game idea of a swarm of small creatures[1], the story and setting created by Nitrome pixel artist Giuseppe Longo[2] through mocking up of the game[1][3].

Oodlegobs' design was also influenced by the game "Badland"[2][4], the trailer of the movie "World War Z"[2], and the candy M&M's[5]. Furthermore, the game's usage of cats was based off the general enjoyment of people watching humorous cat videos.[6] The art Giuseppe Longo created for the game was partly influenced by the game's abstract game mechanic.[3]

Credits[edit | edit source]

Art
Programming
Music

Announcements[edit | edit source]

Date Title Author Category Description Media
Date Title Author Category Description Media
13 Jun 2013 Teaser Alert! Tom McQuillan Preview Nitrome shares a preview screenshot of Oodlegobs, featuring a computer screen with MewTube open.
MewTube preview.png
01 Aug 2013 Oodlegobs Teaser! Mat Annal Preview Nitrome shares a preview image of the upcoming Oodlegobs.
Oodlegobs Teaser.png
23 Aug 2013 Friday Update! Tom McQuillan News! Nitrome asks Nitromians for their thoughts on the D-pad improvement for Nitrome Touchy, and they mention that Oodlegobs will release the following week.
Fridays-upcoming-news-1-.png
29 Aug 2013 Play Oodlegobs! Tom McQuillan New! Oodlegobs is released.
2013-Aug-29 Oodlegobs released.png

Cameos[edit | edit source]

Glitches[edit | edit source]

Spike glitch[edit | edit source]

Rarely, when an oodlegob comes in contact with a spike, it will not die, but rather become immobilized.

  • The glitch in action
    The glitch in action

Unlimited glitch[edit | edit source]

In level five, there is an area with two Oodlegob hives. If Oodlegobs are at them both at the same time, every generator will generate unlimited Oodlegobs, although when there are too many, the game will crash.

  • The glitch in action
    The glitch in action

Graphical glitch[edit | edit source]

Above the starting platform of level 9 are several 2x2 platforms, the 1x1 platform among these having a wire graphic clipping through the metal beam graphic.

  • The glitch
    The glitch

Nitrome Touchy[edit | edit source]

Oodlegobs was made Nitrome Touchy compatible on August 16th 2013.

  • The controller
    The controller

Reception[edit | edit source]

Aggregate scores
Site Score
Jay is Games 4.1/5
Review scores
Site Score
Jay is Games N/A[7]

Oodlegobs currently has an aggregate score of 4.1 out of 5 on Jay is Games. Dora Breckinridge of Jay is Games praised the game's art and mechanic, but criticized the "disgusting" elements of the game and the learning curve regarding how to coordinate movement of a group of Oodlegobs due to the chaotic movement of them. Summarizing her review, she said "Oodlegobs winds up being best for patient players rather than the Happy Gilmores amoung [sic] us, and all joking aside, if you don't mind the morbid premise, it's got a seriously quirky and colourful presentation and concept."

According to the the game's artist Giuseppe Longo the game and its plot were very well received by Nitromians.[3]

Beta elements[edit | edit source]

The menu of the game was changed, for unknown reasons. This is evident from the first previewed image of the game. After the game's startup, the player would be brought to a computer monitor. Instead of the "click to start" message appearing (as in the final version of the game), the player would be prompted with a message titled "OODLE @ GOBS.COM SENT YOU A MESSAGE DO YOU WANT TO READ IT NOW? Y/N".

  • The beta menu
    The beta menu
  • Current menu
    Current menu

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • Parts of Oodlegobs are influenced by internet culture, these being:
    • The expression on the teenager's face briefly changes to a troll face.
    • MewTube is a parody of YouTube.
    • In the help section of the menu, the mention of "make cheezburgers out of them" is a reference to the website I Can Haz Cheesburger?.
    • The intro has two cats of the internet that went viral.
  • Oodlegobs is one of the few Nitrome games that completely lack enemies.
  • The name "Oodlegobs" is a combination of the words "oodles" and "gobs", "oodles" meaning a bunch or a lot, and "gobs" meaning something slimy. This is a reference to the main characters, since there are a lot of them and they are slimy.
The board in question
  • The background of one of the levels of Nitrome Must Die has a board that reads "- game with cats -game with blobs p.s. you have 8 hours!!". It's possible that this was a reference to the development of Oodlegobs, which was released almost two years after Nitrome Must Die.
  • For the Nitrome Jam game Loop, there is an icon for Oodlegobs in the "More projects created by this team members" section.
  • The icon
    The icon

Notes[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tweet by Guiseppe Longo (@Mis BUG): @Gillespionage [:] more or less... At the beginning we just had the idea about the swarm, then the story came out while mocking up...
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tweet by Aaron Steed (@st33d): More an attempt to mix Badlands [sic] with the War Z film trailer. The story is the fault of @Mis_BUG [Giuseppe Longo]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 LinkedIn: Giuseppe Longo → Projects: Oodlegobs: I tried to push the graphics in a setting that was reflecting the abstract nature of the concept. The users really enjoyed the both the game and the plot behind it., August 2013, retrieved 2 May 15.
  4. ↑ Tweet by John Gavin Polson (@JohnPolson): u mean Badland, without the S, or some other game? http://t.co/E0WltKSet2

    Reply tweet by Aaron Steed (@st33d): yeh [sic], that's the one.
  5. ↑ Tweet by Giuseppe Longo (@Mis_BUG): Badlands [sic], War Z trailer and M&M's...
  6. ↑ Comment by Nitrome on their Facebook page: Mew/meow like a kind of noise a cat can make. 'Mew'tube is a parody on the word 'you'tube.
    ... You know because people are obsessed with funny cat videos on the internet.
  7. ↑ http://jayisgames.com/review/oodlegobs.php


v • d • eBludlegob.png Oodlegobs Bludlegob.png
General Oodlegobs  •  Oodlegobs (characters)  •  Teenager  •  MewTube  •  Oodletrouble
Hazards Spikes  •  Laser  •  Bombs  •  Electric blocks
Interactive objects Cats  •  Orange buttons  •  Green buttons  •  Teleporters  •  Mewservers  •  Springs  •  Oodlegobs hives
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