SBCG4AP Dev Blog

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Revision as of 22:10, 26 June 2008

From the desk of Strong Bad.

Strong Bad regularly updates a Developer's Blog on the Telltale Games website to promote Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.

Blog Entries

Image	Date	Title	Description	Currently Playing:
File:Sbmii.png	26 Jun 2008	O Contest, Mii Contest	Strong Bad has his own comments about the Telltale Mii Contest.	"Metal Storm (best death explosion ever)"
	10 Jun 2008	Payable Demo!	Strong Bad shows off his "playable demo". (View the Flash file)	"Gold Rush! (lost the manual, anyone know when Sutter's Mill was built?)"
	04 Jun 2008	End Boss Feature	Strong Bad discusses stickers, game features, and marketing.	"Abodox (I refuse to believe that logo says 'Abadox')"
File:Devblog05-21-08.PNG	21 May 2008	Concept Art is a SCAM!	Strong Bad bemoans Telltale's decision to take the game visuals in a different direction.	"The Viking Child for LYNX. Best Handheld Ever Man."
	14 May 2008	The Endinning of the End	Strong Bad hates the French horn.	"Lost Eden (the dinosaurs look REAL!)"
	7 May 2008	Logos Please	Strong Bad explains that video game success is proportional to the number of logos before the title screen.	"Trojan (they still have cartoon sticks of TNT in the post-apocalyptic future!)"
	24 Apr 2008	New Screenshots!	Strong Bad shows off some new screen shots of the upcoming game... that have been altered slightly.	Not MS Paint
	17 Apr 2008	Anadigilogital	Strong Bad complains about the game's lack of box art and dipswitches.	"Rebel Assault 1 (from a time when nasty looking full motion video was the future of gaming!)"
	10 Apr 2008	Nobody Listens to Strong Bandrew	Strong Bad decries the Telltale Team's rejection of his game ideas.	"Wagyan Land (the end boss is a word game!)"

Fun Facts

26 Jun 2008

• The blog entry's title refers to O Captain! My Captain!.

10 Jun 2008

• Strong Bad mentions a giant novelty toothbrush, which was also mentioned by Homestar Runner in from work.
• Lemonade Stand is an early educational computer program, where players had to set the price for their lemonade depending on conditions.
• Strong Bad's request for the manual is because, like many Sierra games of the era, the game would periodically ask for certain words or facts from the manual as a form of copy protection.
  • Sutter's Mill was built in 1847.
• Phensics is a portmanteau.

04 Jun 2008

• Entry includes examples of deliberately poor English.

21 May 2008

• Strong Bad refers to bullstyle.
• Strong Bad also says that the "Smelly Guy" has "several months' worth of empty cans of Bull Honkey.
• Strong Bad's concept art was seen at the end of the SBCG4AP Advertisement.

14 May 2008

• The game Strong Bad is complaining about is Pitfall II: Lost Caverns. Frogs and balloons were two of the new features in the game, as well as unlimited lives.
• Strong Bad should know that the "silver french horn" is a scorpion, as he positively identified it as such in the commentary of In Search of the Yello Dello.
• "Endinning" is a portmanteau of "end" (or "ending") and "beginning."

24 Apr 2008

• Strong Bad alters a screenshot from the game and claims that it's a dating sim featuring Kate Pierson of the B-52's.
• One of Strong Bad's fake screencaps reveals that Homestar's innards are filled with "Strawberry Quik". "Quik" was the original name of Nestlé's flavored milk drink Nesquik.
• Strong Bad claims to launch a "heat-seeking 3-Stooges eye-poker missile" in his game. The hallmark slapstick comedy of the Stooges often included eye-poking.

17 Apr 2008

• Mig 29 Soviet Fighter is an unlicensed game for the NES. The switch on the back of the game triggers a voltage spike intended to temporarily disable the NES's lock-out chip so that the unlicensed game can be played on an official console.
• Strong Bad uses "it's" in place of "its" even though he considers people who do this to be scalawags.

10 Apr 2008

• The blocky 3D Strong Bad head in the sudoku puzzmaster picture is most likely a reference to Dr. Kawashima's representation in the Brain Age series, which included sudoku in the North American version of its first installment. Dr. Kawashima's head also sometimes used an expression similar to Strong Bad's in the game.
  • NPR's program Weekend Edition Sunday includes a weekly segment with Will Shortz, puzzle constructor (including Sudoku), New York Times puzzle editor, and referred to by NPR as the "Puzzlemaster".
• Strong Bad's idea of a "flame cubicle" in the Telltale offices gets "SBLOUNSKCHED!"
• The title makes a reference to the book Nobody Listens to Andrew.
• Unlike the other dev blog images, the puzzmaster image is hosted on the Viidelectrix site.

See Also

• Strong Sad's Lament

External Links

• Read Strong Bad's Dev Blog