Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
So, essentially the concept here is that a crazy videogame freak is... challenging you... to play a number of... retro games.
It's like some kind of...
It's like some kind of...
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Bob's Game (DS) - Made By One Person Over 15,000 Hours And 5 years
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maniac-kun
Member
Someone should tell him how things work when you do business. he has to play by the rules or GTFO. No sane publisher or other developer will show interest in this game if he does stupid things that hurt his reputation and like i said dosnt play by the rules (nintendo wants a minimum number of people working on the project or they dont give away the devkits and several other things see http://www.warioworld.com/).
watervengeance
Member
I can't wait till he releases the game and read the reviews about it. He's gotten enough attention and built up enough hype. Now it's all going to crash on him.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Joe Shlabotnik said:
Retro Game Marathon?
Retro Game Campaign?
Retro Game, hmm, I don't know... uh... Cha... Cha...
Chalice?
No, that makes no sense.
Sounds really innovative.
Shawsie64 said:
Summary:
Robert Pelloni ("Bob") announces Bob's game, a homemade game by a single person developed over 5 years and 15,000 hours. He releases a couple trailers. He is inverveiwed in various magazines. He claims to be contacted by various publishers. The final trailer ends with Bob himself convening the "interdimensional bob's game championship." Inside "bob's game" there is a game called "bob's game" which has not yet been revealed. At the end of the game, you will face Bob himself in a match of "bob's game" as the final boss fight.
Nintendo refuses his application to purchase the DS software development kit. He starts a "100 day protest" against Nintendo on "live webcam" in which he will not leave his room.
Bob's posts become more and more insane, and he rants about destroying Nintendo.
On day 30 of the protest, he flips out and smashes his entire room, destroying his computer, desk, etc.
On day 31 he claims he faked his death, the police showed up, and so on.
On day 32 he is in a "new room," with red lighting instead of green, which is obviously the same room, which he obviously never really destroyed. Without spelling it out for us, he pretty much reveals here that the whole thing was a joke.
On day 50 he vandalizes the Nintendo world store on video, putting his game on the shelf, littering, etc.
On day 90 he reveals a new video, "The Legend of Bob." It basically retells the story of the past 90 days of a developer named Bob who was rejected by Nintendo due to a vast conspiracy, was driven insane, and became a supervillain. The entire blog was apparently viral marketing to set up the character "Bob" in the game as an insane supervillain, who you will fight as the end boss. He reveals that the game involves collecting various game cartridges which you will play inside the game, essentially minigames within the game. The "Bob's Game" within "Bob's Game" is the final minigame.
On day 93 he shows a new video revealing that he didn't really do a lot of that stuff at the Nintendo world store, a lot of it was staged.
It is now day 93. On day 100, Bob will appear at GDC for some new reveals. Bob says he will be releasing the game on DS, even if he has to manufacture the carts himself. I assume this is illegal.
Personally I'm looking forward to it, it looks like fun. It seems like a way to relive the old days, when you didn't really know much about the games that were out there (aside from what you heard on the playground) until you had the game in your hands. Going around with your handheld "BS" gaming system, trying to find new game cartridges, challenging the various NPCs to multiplayer games, exploring the town, etc. As a kid you played games in which you saved the world. In this, game, you'll play a kid who plays games in which you save the world, and then ends up actually saving the world...by playing a game! For me it will be like some kind of childhood wish fulfillment.
TouchMyBox
Member
Shawsie64 said::lol
This is some funny stuff. Thanks alot for filling me in
just posting here to say that I love your avatar.
FortNinety
Member
My God, I can't believe this thread is still alive. And yes, I know I didn't help matters by bumping it.
And thanks for the summary Frog.
And thanks for the summary Frog.
This. My interest was vaguely piqued before, then I lost all respect for the guy, and now my interest is extremely piqued and I plan on shelling out the $30 for this game brand new. It shows how proud he is that he didn't just upload his game as homebrew and let word of mouth do the rest. Now even if the game was made as homebrew I'd play it and I've never wanted to mod a system in my life for anything.Xabora said:
I still think he's too sane to do something illegal though. Just a very good actor.
JKBii said:
Sane or not, problem is the guy needs Nintendo's approval. Regardless of publisher, if he wants to be on DS legally.
Which I don't think he does. The cool thing is everyone thought he was crazy, but he's not. He's just getting buzz (at the expense of pissing a lot of people off) But hey it seems to work)
I'll at least check it out, because of all this drama.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
I can't believe some of you guys. You want to "buy" "Bob's Game"? On what platform? Unless Nintendo themselves are sponsoring this, there's no way you're going to see a game trashing Nintendo (or "Gantendo") on any game console. Furthermore, I don't even know if he could get this off the ground as a PC title - Nintendo may have grounds to sue for libel.
There probably wasn't a submission to Nintendo for a DS Devit. I doubt any publishers were interested in publishing Bob's Game. Robert Peloni never even went insane or locked himself in a room for 100 days. He's just some guy trying to make a name for himself by pulling the biggest publicity stunt he can muster, so that he can say "Yeah, I'm the guy who got the attention of pretty much the entire gaming community. Who wants to hire me?"
The fact some of you are still looking at this with a straight face boggles my mind. I bet some of you thought ILoveBees was really hacked by a time traveling artificial intelligence, too.
There probably wasn't a submission to Nintendo for a DS Devit. I doubt any publishers were interested in publishing Bob's Game. Robert Peloni never even went insane or locked himself in a room for 100 days. He's just some guy trying to make a name for himself by pulling the biggest publicity stunt he can muster, so that he can say "Yeah, I'm the guy who got the attention of pretty much the entire gaming community. Who wants to hire me?"
The fact some of you are still looking at this with a straight face boggles my mind. I bet some of you thought ILoveBees was really hacked by a time traveling artificial intelligence, too.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Because the SA goons are the ones that called the police. If he's good enough to be able to control the Goons, then I'm officially impressed. And also officially a wish-granting unicorn.Jackson said:
new video up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edAcYfumubc&eurl=http://www.bobsgame.com/
dot dot dot
smhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edAcYfumubc&eurl=http://www.bobsgame.com/
dot dot dot
smhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Chipopo said:
"Also, I've observed a new psychological phenomenon and coined a term for it.
'Denioll' - When someone is 'troled' SO HARD their brain completely rejects it and
puts them into a temporary, malfunctioning state of irrational excuse-seeking."
From bobsgame.com in January.
octopusman
Member
Yeah, me too, I think some GAFfers are upset because Bob didn't turn out to be as stupid as they thought and managed to beat the internet.Xabora said:
JonathanEx
Member
pull yo fuckin head out yo ass bob you piece of shit
OR MAYBE THE PIECE OF SHIT DOESN'T EXIST I JUST MADE YOU BELIEVE YOU WERE ONE BY MAKING IT LOOK LIKE I FAKED IT
And being all "oh i'm gonna be a giant thing at gdc, people will love me" or whatever it was. No help.
OR MAYBE THE PIECE OF SHIT DOESN'T EXIST I JUST MADE YOU BELIEVE YOU WERE ONE BY MAKING IT LOOK LIKE I FAKED IT
And being all "oh i'm gonna be a giant thing at gdc, people will love me" or whatever it was. No help.
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
I don't even know what to think about this issue anymore.
Though I do know that whether this actually is some sort of viral marketing for his indie game, just some attention-whoring performance nerdart, or someone with mental issues trying to cover up a public breakdown, it's the most annoying shit I've ever seen.
Though I do know that whether this actually is some sort of viral marketing for his indie game, just some attention-whoring performance nerdart, or someone with mental issues trying to cover up a public breakdown, it's the most annoying shit I've ever seen.
octopusman
Member
Latest update, bob is going to GDC09 apparently, kinda weaksauce for a day 100 update.
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
FINALLY: The _definitive_ truth about Bob
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I've been half-interestedly following Bob's Game for the duration of this 'viral campaign' and I've always kinda wanted to play the game, if only to see what it is like. However, from seeing these new youtube vids, I really wanna play it now. This dude has some serious marketing talent (if he's not just backpedaling from his public breakdown, lol), and the previous screens and vids always looked kinda neat to me anyway.
It's amazing how bitter some people can be about this guy though! Give the man some credit, he played us all incredibly well.
It's amazing how bitter some people can be about this guy though! Give the man some credit, he played us all incredibly well.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
epmode said:
Well I want to shoot down your orbital pessimism nukes with my awesome Star Wars laser defense grid of hope.
Just imagine the game is as good as he talks it up to be, it could be a really fun game. You've not played it, I've not played it, let's wait and see.
Peronthious
Member
Apparently a demo has popped up on the site. I haven't had time to give it a look yet, but it doesn't work on most flash cards except the Cyclo. Emulators run it fine, though.
Like the hat?
Banned
damnit, i just got rid of my cyclo!
rollingstart
Banned
game is actually kinda neat. Well, half neat. It seems like it's Retro Game Challenge + an adventure about asbergers. The Retro Game Challenge stuff is the neat part if you need clarification. I'm playing a clone of Tetris on a fake gameboy on the bottom screen while the people are still on the top.
Long loading times? What emulator are Yuu (Sorry) using? I'm on OS X and using the first thing that popped up on Google, DeSmuME, and it's super fast. No slowdown at all. At least not with this game? I dunno.
So far, it's what I've seen in videos. I like the art style for the most part, but can't help he ripped ideas out of my head. Still, I hope that if it doesn't get published as a real cart, it will still be put on the internet in ROM form.
How the fuck do you get the batteries? Are they in that box I can't reach in the basement?
So far, it's what I've seen in videos. I like the art style for the most part, but can't help he ripped ideas out of my head. Still, I hope that if it doesn't get published as a real cart, it will still be put on the internet in ROM form.
How the fuck do you get the batteries? Are they in that box I can't reach in the basement?
Jasoco said:
The batteriese aren't in the basement or garage at all, although you will go to the basement. The hints are actually given when you speak to the mother twice in red font. It's quite clever, and I missed it the first time round as well.
There really are no loading times, and I'm using an Acekard 2. I'm not a fan of his graphical style, but it is alghit I guess. I'm assuming the tetris game is impossible to beat, but yea it's actually interesting.
golduck342
Member
When you get to Tetrid:
You have to get to 500 points. It's a pretty big pain in the ass, for very little story, then the demo ends. It shows Bob after finishing making a game which is vastly superior to Tetrid. He plans to take it to Gantendo and watch the game practically sell itself.
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