The Gigglebone Gang: AlphaBonk Farm

Come on down to AlphaBonk Farm and meet the Gigglebone Gang, y'all! We've got the farm's owner tellin' tales, a talkin' swine teachin' fools some facts, a voracious frog eatin' boys on bicycles and fusin' farm animals into freaks, and a parrot playin' I Spy!

Unused Sounds#

Fun Farm Facts#

E Facts

Early	Final

Both of Svelte Velma's E facts have a set of earlier, less polished sounds. Here are the early egg fact's sounds...

Early	Final

...and here are the ones for the earthworm fact. Interestingly, the earlier version of Velma's dialogue contains less dead air. (An early equivalent for Velma's egg fact voiceline exists, but it's identical to the final version.)

Fowl Fact

Early	Final

The sound the hen makes when she takes a dump was originally much "fartier".

Harvester Fact

Early	Final

An earlier, more compact version of Velma's dialogue.

Velma?: Whew... I couldn't hear myself think!

There is also an unused placeholder 'post-action' quip from Velma, which was never re-recorded by her voice actress.

Rat Fact Cut rat chewing sounds.

Poke 'n Prod#

"B" Farm Beaver: That's enough!

Seems to be an alternate version of the beaver's "No more!" line that plays after creating five shaving piles.

A scrapped sound of either water being poured or something being cooked.

Big "E" Egg Factory Two unused sound effects. The first sound can be heard in the "For Parents" preview of AlphaBonk Farm in the Headbone Interactive CD-ROM Sampler. The second sound is a shortened duplicate of the one used for dyeing the eggs/birds/fried chicken.

Ice Cream Shop Bunji: Uh-oh! It looks like we're all out of that. Try a different flavor!

A line meant to play when the ice cream flavors "run out". The flavors never run out no matter how many scoops or cones you make, and even when you hit the object limit, Bunji still says her regular "hungry" lines.

Livestock Roundup Bunji?: Welcome to the L Farm. Click on me to get some stuff.

An unenthusiastic placeholder for Bunji's introductory infodump.

"Q" Quilting Bee Various disgusting unused sounds, including a man puking, a reversed water pouring sound, and some digital glitching.

Development Text#

A file path can be found at 0xB22CA in ALPHBNK.EXE:

D:\CAMILLE\ABF2\ABFDXR.DIR

At the very end of the same file is a developer credit and another path:

Camille Nims - HeadBone Interactive, Inc.
Camille Nims - Headbone Interactive, Inc.
D:\CAMILLE\ABF2\

Filename Oddities#

Many of the Harvester fact's sprites have unusual internal names:

gears of fate
gears of time
destiny
lulubell barfing on the rug
lulubell eating my shoes
magic eight-ball
tarrot cards
my dog lulubell eating lunch
nightfall in paris
nightfall in paris 2 
nightfall in paris 3
ouija board

The quit screen's sprite for Clyde and Velma (and Farmer Bonk's headless body) has the internal name jim&velma. Was Jim an early name for Clyde?

Version Differences#

To do:
Figure out what the raincoat does.

Exclusive to the Macintosh version are bonus items for certain Poke 'n Prod segments. Most of them change the color of the other items, much like the dyes in the E segment.

Blueberries - Found in the "B" Farm. Turns items blue.
Haunted Slime - Found in the Haunted Barnyard. Turns items green.
Raincoat - Found in the "R" Tree. Makes something happen when worn.
Raspberries - Also at the "R" Tree. Turns items red.
Umber Pencil - Found in the Upside-Down Room. Turns items brown.

References#

CD-ROM Developer, Headbone Interactive, Announces First Title ↩︎