Tembo The Badass Elephant

Trumbo Tembo the Badass Elephant is an explosive 2.5D platformer adventure starring an elephant with a Rambo-like attitude.

Notably, it's Game Freak's first game for a non-Nintendo platform since 1999's Click Medic.

Unused Graphics#

Mockup Title Screen#

Most notable for using the game's original name, "Trumbo the Badass Elephant", which was probably changed to avoid legal conflicts with Disney's Dumbo. Despite this change, all internal assets related to Tembo (sprites, models, audio files, etc.) - including the game executable file at launch, causing issues booting the game - still refer to him as "Trumbo".

Go Trumbo!#

A row of nine individual sprites that when combined spell out "GO TRUMBO!" would have played at the start of every level.

Mockup Menus#

オプション画面-CS版"/(Option screen - Console version)

オプション画面-PC版"/(Option screen - PC version)

リーダーボード画面"/(Leaderboard screen)

Internal Project Name#

The internal project name of the game is Project Zoo, according to SteamDB.

Cancelled DLC#

DLC Menu UI#

Several unused graphics referencing a menu for downloadable content.

DLC_title

English	French	German
Italian	Spanish

DLC_background

DLC_cratemark

DLC cursor and DLC_checkmark_00

SteamDB Depots#

According to SteamDB, the game has unused app depot for DLC once associated to the main app until June 9, 2021. These DLCs were never officially announced. Their contents are unknown outside of the suggested Sonic the Hedgehog-themed collaboration.

Unused Sounds#

I_SonicRingSE

A crude imitation of the iconic ring-picking sound effect, once again suggesting at planned Sonic the Hedgehog-themed content.