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Dais · Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 142

I realize it probably doesn't fall under the heading of "lost treasure", but what happened to the DS incarnation of A Boy and His Blob, besides cancellation? How far into development was the game? Was that screenshot an early mock-up or actual engine-at-work? What brought the axe down at last?

The same goes for the GBA entry in the series - what happened to it? Does it exist in some form? And so on.

Redeye said David Crane personally told him the DS version was cancelled - if you're passing by, sir, can you say if you were told more about this, and if it can be disclosed?

Actually, it'd be ideal if I could talk about this with David Crane himself, but:

1. I practically internet-piss myself when talking to (or trying to talk to) famous people
2. I would spend the entire conversation trying to convince him to turn [x game he worked on] into [y absurd new property that panders to the worst in gaming]

Also I just noticed that one of you is very strange. That's all I'll say, for fear of causing trouble.

TheRedEye · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:49 am Post subject:

Am I the strange person? I want to be strange!

Boy and his Blob DS was cancelled because it was shit. What more do you want to know?

Wonderbutt · Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Doritos Inc.

Dais, I once got an email back from Tom Servo and had an existential crisis.

TheRedEye · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject:

I asked David Crane. You're welcome.

Wonderbutt · Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Doritos Inc.

That's a kinda-sorta disappointment, because the original was decent enough, but not one of my fave NES games. My sleeper fave is easily Nightshade. That would have been fun, a Nightshade sequel.

TheRedEye · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:25 am Post subject:

I've played the DS game, its cancellation is pretty much the opposite of disappointment.

KingMike · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3173061
Is it being resurrected for the Wii, or is this likely to be a different game?

ArnoldRimmer83 · Staff Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 540

Well that artwork doesn't look nearly as horrific as the DS one, so hopefully its being redone from scratch.

EDIT: I saw a link to the article in Nintendo Power. Wayforward (Shantae, Contra 4) is making the game.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/03/a-boy-and-his-blob-detailed-in-latest-nintendo-power/

The visuals look a thousand times better than the abysmal DS remake did. This just might end up being pretty good.

handofg0d · Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 455 Location: PA

From what I understand this is a completely different, ground up game, that has nothing in common with the DS title other than it's name.

DS screen:

Wii screen:

rbudrick · not rubrdick Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 549

DreamTR (I think, sorry, it's been a while, and there was a DP thread some time back) said that after playing through a proto that the game was horrible and was canceled because it sucked mega balls and wasn't going to get better any time soon.

-Rob

Almost forgot...

GDRI · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 352

ProgrammingAce · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 580

Someone told me the rom for the DS version of blob was leaked out there, anybody confirm?

rbudrick · not rubrdick Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 549

DarkFalzX · Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

If you look at other Skyworks-developed games, you pretty much have the idea about the quality of BahB DS. The rumors that the game "was complete but was shelved" are baseless - last I saw, only 4-5 of the simplest beans were implemented, and most levels were empty shells. Oh, yeah - and even in the "finished" levels it was possibly one of the ugliest, most boring games I've ever seen.

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