How lengthy has it been since I first noticed gifs of Ooblets—these goofy critters trundling round city behind their awkwardly dancing human good friend? RPS first posted about this cute little city sim three years ago. So in all probability about then, I’d say. I believed it’d arrive in 2018. I had hope for 2019 too. According to Glumberland’s growth replace for January, “2020 is the YEAR OF THE OOB.” So this would be the 12 months I jog round city with my little dancing monsters? I hope so.
More particularly, Glumberland say that the 2020 12 months of Oob has been “foretold in the prophecies/milestone calendar.” That does truly sound like a promising, grounded estimate. They’ve been hesitant to recommend any agency dates and yeah, this isn’t a agency date, but it surely’s a 12 months and that’s greater than I had earlier than. Glumberland invitations you to attract no matter wild conclusions you’ll from this proclamation. I’ll keep away from something too wild and as a substitute inform you what they are saying they’ve been engaged on.
Originally, Ooblets was deliberate with battles between its little monsters in a system paying homage to Pokemon. Back in 2018, Glumberland axed that system for a friendlier dance battle idea. According to the workforce, they’ve carried out 73 new strikes with “50 or so” left to do earlier than launch. That’s a whole lot of contemporary footwork.
The largest new addition, Glumberland say, is “sea-dangling.” I truthfully thought possibly that is an exercise I simply don’t find out about. So far as I can inform, that’s simply the dorky Ooblets-ed title for fishing. “The concept ended up working out really well in Ooblets since as you all know sea-dangling doesn’t involve hurting any animals,” Glumberland say. It appears like sea-dangling largely includes catching junk, not fish, although they do reference utilizing bait and I’m undecided how inanimate stick bundles could be baited.
There’s a bit extra: new animations, new lore floating all over the world that you could learn, and an Oob that delivers your unlocked badges to you. You can catch the remainder of the small print within the Ooblets January devlog. You’ll discover Ooblets over on the Epic Store every time it decides to grace us with its dance-offs.
