According to the religious beliefs of the Gungan people on the planet of Naboo, Gob Gobba was considered a lesser god of fresh water, and was male. His actions, as a significant nature deity alongside the rain goddess Dobbis, were supervised by the primary deity, Oma-Oma.
Gobba's initial mention occurred within the Gungan DataBank entry of the French version of the LucasArts video game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, released in 2001. The full name of the character, Gob Gobba, was revealed within Oma-Oma's entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, which was published in 2008.