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Hi! I'm Bob!
I post fun 2D and 3D games at coolbobgames.itch.io!
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Bouncy
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A green three-dimensional Super Mario World spring.
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Happy Halloween!
Behold this terrifying unfinished prototype...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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Have I been here before?
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October 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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What is this? A 2D platformer about a frog escaping a lab by pulling switches, pushing boxes, and jumping over acid named "Frog Escape"?
store.steampowered.com/app/3344450/...
I would like to point out that this came out 7 months after Frog Escape 3...
#notfortygames #notfrogescape
September 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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I was reusing the code for the switches in the Frog Escape games today and noticed that something was being called weirdly...
Then I remembered that was the first Unity script I ever wrote! Maybe you'll see those switches again soon...
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September 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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If I don't feel like posting updates on here, it's because development is going poorly.
However, if I haven't had time to post updates on here, it's because development is going well.
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September 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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I'm trying my best to stick to these 24 colors.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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My new game, Fall Away, now has an Assist Mode in case anyone playing needs it.
After 6 months of development, the game will finally be released tomorrow, July 31st, for FREE! See you then.
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July 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Here's one last video of my game Fall Away, releasing soon!
This is layer 7 of 8, where you have every key ability in the game!
The abilities are all very unique and powerful but tricky to wrap your mind around. The rest of the game acts as practice for this final gauntlet...
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July 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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I've been working on some TV screens for the fourth "layer" of Fall Away! There are eight layers in total.
This layer has a new teleporting kite ability and a digital friend who helps you learn to use it!
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July 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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My last post showed the second ability in my new game, Fall Away, and here's the third! It's a grappling hook sticky hand!
It's really hard to use at first, but once you master the aiming, you can do crazy things with it!
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July 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Wow, I haven't shown this game in a while. It looks completely different now...
Here are some bouncy strings from several months ago, now with a new art style!
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July 11, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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All that was left to do in the end was make the promotional art, and also to decide which of the 4 potential names to use.
Thanks for reading these retrospective devlogs! I hope they were interesting to you.
-CoolBobGames
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I added this sign for Copodile. I started making a logo for the game. The game's name kept changing until the last minute. "Private Playground" made it all the way to the main menu! An old version of the thumbnail on Itch. It has the sun in the corner and weird colors.
June 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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At this point, I went a bit crazy with the effects. The ones used in the final game help you understand your surroundings better.
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I tested a vignette and chromatic aberration. Incorrectly applied ambient occlusion. Correctly applied ambient occlusion. Film grain, for some reason.
June 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Chicrook: Puzzling Playground finally released on December 14th, 2024!
Here's everything that happened during the last two months of development.
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Vines were added to the robocops to show their age. At this point, I also added the boat to show more of the game's story. I just made my corn count over 1000 again, the sky turned black, it got hard to see in the distance, the sun cast a pure red light on the world, and from the darkness I thought I saw something. A corn collection effect. As if something else collected corn. Actually it was just a similar-looking explosion but Chicrook has the potential to be terrifying. The pause menu was added! This became more important later. At this point, I began messing with the graphics to allow for post-processing effects. I got it all figured out in the end, but it was annoying while it was happening.
June 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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At this point, the game was getting close to completion! Here I am finishing the windmill.
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The spiral ladder inside the windmill, taken from Egg Hunt, an old 3d thing I made. The beaver statue appears to be wooden here for some reason. The windmill was surrounded in corn, leaving a slit for the blade that was planned to spin. Two weird alternate blade designs that didn't make it. For a long, long time, you could run into this corner of the map and jump to fly up it. This was eventually fixed.
June 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I made sure to work on the rest of that quarter of the map as well.
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These are a bunch of unused styles for the wall art in the grotto. The final game's cave engravings are also this bluish-grey, but they're indented into the wall. The chicken in the mountain cage puzzle that's meant to store corn. Copodile's original model, unchanged from the one in the final game.
June 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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It was that bad.
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I made an alternate maze design just in case, but it seemed like Door Man was here to stay... After two hours of making this one maze, it was finally in the game! Not only did that design go way over the corn budget for the area, but its paths were also way too thin! I had to redesign the whole thing to be way simpler, scrapping Door Man again in the process. After breaking my brain with corn mazes all day, this one finally made it into the game. We'll never forget you, Door Man.
June 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Making a digital corn maze can't be that bad, right?
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Door man! He was the original door to the corn maze. Door man was unfortunately replaced by this large cop engraving. His badges on his hat and chest are flowers. The cop's flowers were made blue to match the maze, which had a blue corn switch. Door man attempted to return to the game as the solution to the corn maze.
June 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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At this point, this is what my progress on the first area and the grotto looked like.
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I wanted to add a flower pot under a window, to add more buttons in New Celipo, and to stop you from softlocking yourself in this room with the old save system, so I added this window with corn under it. I finally gave the windmill a door! These buttons in the grotto are satisfying. They open new routes when you drop in from above. This is a map of the grotto so you don't get lost while traversing it. It's old, so it's missing most threats.
June 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Here's what happened to Chicrook 3 back in November!
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I started putting corn everywhere! Originally, the corn was unlit to make it pop, but shining in the light made it stand out more. I added in the robocops as statues! The dead black faces remind me of Lego Mario. I gave the corn these cool randomized particle effects when picked up! I discovered them while messing with Unity. The new, low-res corn sprite was made for this button. The buttons in-game use the colors of the switch palaces in Super Mario World.
June 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I'm currently working on a game where you can use a sticky hand to climb up a building!
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June 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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To wrap up the October devlog, here's me testing some wacky sky, fog, and sun colors!
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Testing if the fog should be sun colored, for some reason. Testing the sun-colored fog again, but with more corn. This was before I coded the changing sky color. I must've gotten some red value wrong because the sun is green but the sky is purple. An old version of the sunset at 1000 corn. I like these colors better than the ones in the final game.
June 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Right before Halloween, I was testing the sun colors when this happened.
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A red light is cast on the world by the sun. The clouds are red. The mountain is red. The sun is red.
June 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM