Author Topic: The "Bob's Game" dude is scaring me (Read 25217 times)

Sho Nuff · « **on:** December 21, 2008, 07:23:19 PM »

Apparently he has barricaded himself in a room for 100 days until Nintendo sends him a development kit. There is a live camera feed so you can watch him.

http://www.bobsgame.com/

"I cannot leave this viridian room. The door is locked and barricaded from the outside.
I am sleeping behind the camera, and yes- I've got a shower. Food is delivered once a week by a friend.
I have no internet access, television, or game consoles besides those I am developing on.
I can receive and send email on my Android G1, so I can get Nintendo's reply and update my site with tether.
The LED counter will be incremented once a day, and sometimes it will display hints and secret messages.

This is my 100 day protest to Nintendo!"

demi · « **Reply #1 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:24:05 PM »

archie4208 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:25:26 PM »

I doubt he left his room anyway so I don't see the point.

cool breeze · « **Reply #3 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:29:21 PM »

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Food is delivered once a week by a friend.

demi · « **Reply #4 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:32:13 PM »

He should submit for a WiiWare game... if people can release Beer Pong on it

http://www.jvgames.com/g_bp.htm

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:37:38 PM »

The game itself is somewhat intriguing, but locking himself in his room in protest seems counter-intuitive to gaining respect from a major corporation.

demi · « **Reply #6 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:42:32 PM »

At least he hasn't overcharged his game so he wouldn't have to get a job like Jonny Blow

Guybrush Threepwood · « **Reply #7 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:47:32 PM »

nintard to the extreme

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #8 on:** December 21, 2008, 07:50:45 PM »

It would be tits if the friend forgot about delivering food the second week in.

Jansen · « **Reply #9 on:** December 21, 2008, 08:04:08 PM »

his game looks like shit

which is why i'm surprised that nintendo is ignoring him

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #10 on:** December 21, 2008, 08:04:40 PM »

told all y'all he was an asspie psycho

cool breeze · « **Reply #11 on:** December 21, 2008, 08:13:39 PM »

Quote from: demi on December 21, 2008, 07:42:32 PM

At least he hasn't overcharged his game so he wouldn't have to get a job like Jonny Blow

Blow didn't get a job because he was a lazy bum

Bob can't get a job because he's afraid of human interaction

cool breeze · « **Reply #12 on:** December 21, 2008, 08:14:52 PM »

his first game is a life sim where you play him in a world with characters he made up

the guy is a nut

demi · « **Reply #13 on:** December 21, 2008, 08:16:05 PM »

Sounds no different from Braid... I would buy it

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #14 on:** December 21, 2008, 08:18:25 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on December 21, 2008, 08:14:52 PM

his first game is a life sim where you play him in a world with characters he made up

the guy is a nut

Let me guess, he has asperger's right?

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #15 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:29:45 PM »

He's programming now

I wish there was a way I could type things into a box and a text-to-speech device would heckle him

cool breeze · « **Reply #16 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:30:36 PM »

Quote from: T EXP on December 21, 2008, 08:18:25 PM

Quote from: swaggaz on December 21, 2008, 08:14:52 PM
his first game is a life sim where you play him in a world with characters he made up

the guy is a nut

Let me guess, he has asperger's right?

Don't know. I don't know the guy...then again I don't think anyone does.

Guybrush Threepwood · « **Reply #17 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:31:16 PM »

so anyone planning on buying the game?

cool breeze · « **Reply #18 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:34:52 PM »

Quote from: Guybrush Threepwood on December 21, 2008, 11:31:16 PM

so anyone planning on buying the game?

I'd check it out if only to peer into Bob's mind. It's not often that you can see someone's sick fantasy in game form.

demi · « **Reply #19 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:35:22 PM »

wouldnt it be cool if you saw him jerking off on his horribly compressed live feed?

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #20 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:40:15 PM »

I wonder why he just doesn't port it to iPhone, if it's good it'll sell and make him dolla dollas, people are desperate for good content on that platform

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #21 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:57:20 PM »

cuz he's insane

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #22 on:** December 21, 2008, 11:59:10 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on December 21, 2008, 08:04:40 PM

told all y'all he was an asspie psycho

Way to go out on a limb.

originalz · « **Reply #23 on:** December 22, 2008, 12:01:21 AM »

Isn't this what the XNA was designed for?

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #24 on:** December 22, 2008, 12:54:25 AM »

Quote from: originalz on December 22, 2008, 12:01:21 AM

Isn't this what the XNA was designed for?

as a ninthing asspie 16-bit obsessive, developing for a microsoft platform is unthinkable

Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich · « **Reply #25 on:** December 22, 2008, 01:59:09 AM »

typical ntard behavior?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #26 on:** December 22, 2008, 07:22:04 AM »

i feel fatter and socially withdrawn just from clicking that link

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #27 on:** December 22, 2008, 05:26:46 PM »

This guy is sick and needs help. This is like Minter-level hissy fit shit.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #28 on:** December 22, 2008, 06:51:43 PM »

Quote from: Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich on December 22, 2008, 01:59:09 AM

typical ntard behavior?

Even at the height of my ninthingery I never locked myself in my room to protest something that Nintendo didn't or didn't do.

No, this is a very special kind of insanity.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #29 on:** December 23, 2008, 02:17:15 PM »

I locked myself in a room for a month when FFTSW came out (really), because I was embarrassed to be an FF fan

I also locked myself in a room for seven months in 2003 (really) after a girl came on to me because she thought I was deep or something. I was bullshitting and the fact that she fell for it made me feel ashamed of myself, her, and the world in general.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #30 on:** December 23, 2008, 04:51:43 PM »

When I saw TSW four days after its release, I was the only one in the theater. Yes, I paid for that crap.

Cravis · « **Reply #31 on:** December 24, 2008, 09:22:07 AM »

So if he's locked in with the door barricaded what in the hell is he going to do if the house catches fire?

Purple Filth · « **Reply #32 on:** December 24, 2008, 10:59:09 AM »

Heard about this on the Giant Bomb podcast and

.................

yea.

I guess mostly working on a game by your self for five years can take a toll.

cool breeze · « **Reply #33 on:** December 31, 2008, 07:15:28 PM »

Quote from: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/31/bobwatch-day-21-things-get-kind-of-weird/

Peloni has started releasing the addresses of Nintendo execs and offering semi-creepy holiday greetings to Reggie. Oh, also, he's begun threatening to ... well, as he said:

"If I cannot legitimately publish my game, the only option left to fulfill this goal is to bundle a KILLER APP with a DSi enabled 'homebrew device.' ... 'bob's game' is being translated into many languages, including Japanese, and will be released worldwide. Unfortunately, this has the potential to significantly cut into Nintendo's bottom line."

:gerstmann

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #34 on:** December 31, 2008, 07:20:38 PM »

Quote from: swaggaz on December 31, 2008, 07:15:28 PM

Quote from: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/31/bobwatch-day-21-things-get-kind-of-weird/
Peloni has started releasing the addresses of Nintendo execs and offering semi-creepy holiday greetings to Reggie. Oh, also, he's begun threatening to ... well, as he said:

"If I cannot legitimately publish my game, the only option left to fulfill this goal is to bundle a KILLER APP with a DSi enabled 'homebrew device.' ... 'bob's game' is being translated into many languages, including Japanese, and will be released worldwide. Unfortunately, this has the potential to significantly cut into Nintendo's bottom line."

:gerstmann

Wow.

demi · « **Reply #35 on:** December 31, 2008, 07:24:36 PM »

I dont see any addresses for the nintendo people...

Rman · « **Reply #36 on:** December 31, 2008, 07:33:29 PM »

Dude needs serious help. There's countless of avenues where he could release his game. I don't get his obsession with releasing it on the DS specifically.

cool breeze · « **Reply #37 on:** January 01, 2009, 03:36:54 PM »

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"bob's game" has never been intended as "homebrew." I've aimed to make a commercial game from the very start.
I have tried every approach to release "bob's game" through official means- because it was never intended as a "homebrew" game.
Yet "bob's game," a highly-anticipated, highly-publicized, retail-length, retail-quality, 20-hour-long, 64 megabyte adventure title- is being treated as such.

Releasing a retail length, retail quality game as "homebrew" indeed makes "bob's game" a KILLER APP for "homebrew-enabling" devices.
I do not want to support these devices, because many of them are able to run commercial software. This is damaging to developers like myself.

This puts me in a major predicament. Do I simply give up on five years of tireless effort? I cannot!
I am attempting to inform Nintendo what could happen if this project is released in the only way they have left me.
I am partying hard for them- publicly, on live broadcast, for 100 days- I do not want to release "bob's game" as "homebrew."

"bob's game" is a five year, fifteen-thousand-hour masterpiece.

How can I say this to make them understand?
THE GAME IS TREMENDOUSLY GOOD. IT'S EXTRAORDINARY! IT MIGHT SELL A MILLION COPIES.
I'VE BARELY SHOWN ANYTHING AT ALL FOR A REASON. I'M NOT GOING TO SPOIL IT TO PROVE IT TO YOU.
YOU WILL FIND OUT WHEN IT'S RELEASED. I AM TELLING THE TRUTH! IT'S GREAT!
ARE YOU HONESTLY GOING TO FORCE ME TO RELEASE IT FOR FLASHCARTS? ARE YOU INSANE?!
THE GAME IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!

Happy New Year, REGGIE!
(You're the best! I'm counting on you!)

he's breaking down after 20-some days

wow

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I am publicly partying hard for a Japanese company with a Japanese style celebration to sell me what I require (and meet requirements for)
to legitimately publish my game in a way that costs them nothing, puts them at no risk, and makes them licensing money.

As I've said from the very beginning,
My goal is to release a cartridge form of "bob's game" for the DS and DSi platforms.

If I cannot legitimately publish my game, the only option left to fulfill this goal is to release a KILLER APP for a DS "homebrew device."
There has never been a true KILLER APP released for this kind of device, especially as a launch title for a brand new console.
"bob's game" is being translated into many languages, including Japanese, and will be released worldwide.
Unfortunately, this has the potential to significantly cut into Nintendo's bottom line.
(I really don't want that! Nintendo is AWESOME! They make the best games in the entire world!)

I like Nintendo.
The last thing I want to do is release my game in a way that might damage them.
Why do you think I spent five years making a "Nintendo game?"
I am going to see this project through to the end, and they are leaving me with no choice.
I've tried everything, and it's gotten me nowhere. I have done nothing wrong.

News of my epic 100 day party has now reached several major Japanese gaming sites.
This means that Nintendo of Japan is becoming aware of what its Western branch has done-
and they are beginning to receive a great deal of negative PR on their home front.

In other words- because of what may (or may not) be the decision of a single NOA executive for a personal reason-
Nintendo of Japan may now be at risk of some very serious consequences.
(That would be really awful! I like Nintendo! I'm hoping they contact me and sort this matter out!)

I'm NOT WRONG, and it WILL WORK.

About a week ago I was contacted by a representative of a hacker-for-hire organization.
They said that someone was attempting to hire them to take my site down, but they refused the job because they support me. (I'm sure it was a joke, of course!)
My site is now being DDoS'd from a known commercial botnet and my servers are being scanned by another known hacker-for-hire group. (Some goon I'm sure.)

This is very serious. (business!)
Someone at Nintendo wants to silence me.
(I'm sure someone does, anyway!)
I wonder who it is?
(I really do! Stop that!)

Positive Touch · « **Reply #38 on:** January 01, 2009, 04:01:17 PM »

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64 megabyte

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #39 on:** January 01, 2009, 04:05:27 PM »

Bob is going off the deep end

Don't YUU think so

urr urr urrr

bork · « **Reply #40 on:** January 01, 2009, 04:18:53 PM »

His game looks like a cookie-cutter 16-bit era RPG joke. Does he really think it would be a big seller?

GO OUTSIDE, BOB. PLEASE. FRESH OXYGEN IS NEEDED.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #41 on:** January 01, 2009, 04:27:11 PM »

Anyone could make his game with RPG Maker in a couple of months

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #42 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:35:11 PM »

You just know that this game is some surreal trip through the mind of someone who dances on the border between eccentric and flat-out insane.

demi · « **Reply #43 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:45:37 PM »

Whats the big deal with that? Miyamoto said Pikmin was made because of his garden. But yet you guys jerk off over Galaxy. Who knows what he was going through with his midlife crisis when making that.

tiesto · « **Reply #44 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:46:44 PM »

Quote from: T EXP on January 01, 2009, 04:27:11 PM

Anyone could make his game with RPG Maker in a couple of months

Yeah, really... although the spritework looks like it took a slight amount of work.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #45 on:** January 01, 2009, 11:58:52 PM »

he's partying hard for them

Purple Filth · « **Reply #46 on:** January 02, 2009, 12:17:04 AM »

What the hell.............

So he cannot use xbla, psn, iphone or even the pc to release this. Does this game have any special features that only work on the ds or something?

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #47 on:** January 02, 2009, 12:18:49 AM »

he loves nintendo with all of his little loyal heart, in the way that only emotionally stunted asspie internetizens can

archie4208 · « **Reply #48 on:** January 02, 2009, 12:34:01 AM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on January 02, 2009, 12:18:49 AM

he loves nintendo with all of his little loyal heart, in the way that only emotionally stunted asspie internetizens can

and nintendo gives him the cold shoulder and continues to churn out shovelware to the tune of record profits.

nintendo pissing on their fanbase and earning big $$$

TVC15 · « **Reply #49 on:** January 02, 2009, 03:22:05 AM »

Quote from: tiesto on January 01, 2009, 11:46:44 PM

Quote from: T EXP on January 01, 2009, 04:27:11 PM
Anyone could make his game with RPG Maker in a couple of months

Yeah, really... although the spritework looks like it took a slight amount of work.

The sprite work looks like a c-list Enix game, circa 1991 SNES.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #50 on:** January 02, 2009, 04:07:13 AM »

where are pics of this game?

TVC15 · « **Reply #51 on:** January 02, 2009, 04:51:16 AM »

You can see videos at www.bobsgame.com

The whole thing looks very early 90s SNES. It's got no style and the vids really don't show the core gameplay. Nintendo is a fucking piece of shit garbage maker, but I fully support them shitting all over this deluded distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #52 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:41:59 AM »

I think the lack of style potentially constitutes a style, but hey I liked Lagoon

TVC15 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 02, 2009, 05:55:59 AM »

Ergh, I liked Lagoon, too. I haven't tried it in like 15 years and I am sure it is actually terrible, but back when I was a wee little poor lad, I rented the thing until I beat it. Same goes for Ys 3 SNES, which I am also sure is probably actually terrible.

I remember the "attract mode" of Lagoon having cool music. I put attract mode in quotes because that term feels wrong when applied to anything other than arcade games.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #54 on:** January 02, 2009, 06:45:26 AM »

I rented it but got stuck (as in no idea what to do stuck, not can't beat a boss stuck) in the last dungeon.

Anyway, my problem with this isn't that it's not revolutionary or the graphics look bad or I think there's anything wrong with SNES-style adventure games or with one person spending five years on a game or anything like that. I think if you create all the details yourself, even if you don't make any radical departure from existing game conventions, your personality will come out strongly in the final product, which is interesting in itself. The problem is I get the impression the guy has a fairly unpleasant personality, and I don't mean his Aspergers or whatever. e.g. the guy in the first trailer who's supposed to be a pacifist I guess.

tiesto · « **Reply #55 on:** January 02, 2009, 12:34:14 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on January 02, 2009, 05:55:59 AM

Ergh, I liked Lagoon, too. I haven't tried it in like 15 years and I am sure it is actually terrible, but back when I was a wee little poor lad, I rented the thing until I beat it. Same goes for Ys 3 SNES, which I am also sure is probably actually terrible.

I remember the "attract mode" of Lagoon having cool music. I put attract mode in quotes because that term feels wrong when applied to anything other than arcade games.

Lagoon has some sweet-ass music but the small sword length makes combat seem very trial-and-error and luck driven. The game is also a total Ys ripoff.

demi · « **Reply #56 on:** January 06, 2009, 04:02:09 AM »

Apparently Bob has been contacted by a chinese company who can distribute his game on a flash cart via wal-mart

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I have been approached by a Chinese homebrew cart manufacturer that can secure a retail distribution deal with Wal-mart, similar to what Tengen or Galoob did, but on a DSi enabled homebrew cart with "bob's game" included on a microSD card, for less than the price of a high-budget DS title. It gives them the legitimate means they've needed to go to retail, and it gets my game on a cart.
The plan will work.

http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=15393&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=615&sid=e881fd0ab64df2fe72a3f98684406aca

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #57 on:** January 06, 2009, 10:11:44 AM »

brawndolicious · « **Reply #58 on:** January 06, 2009, 12:33:45 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on January 02, 2009, 04:51:16 AM

www.bobsgame.com

I think the premise of the game is that the player is insane.

It would make sense why it's supposed to be with Nintendo, why Bob wants it to be sold for real cash moneys, and why Bob acts like he does.

This seriously is a real Killer App.

Diunx · « **Reply #59 on:** January 06, 2009, 02:57:21 PM »

That game looks like shit, I'm sure it will be a big hit with the ntards.

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Author Topic: The "Bob's Game" dude is scaring me (Read 25217 times)