Following his rejection for Nintendo DS developer status, Robert Pelloni plans to release his one-man DS project on the iPhone, Andriod, OpenPandora, and into the DS homebrew community. Months of questionable behavior seems to have left Pelloni with few options outside of open source platforms, and his aggressive streak remains.
“bob’s game” will be available for EVERY MAJOR NINTENDO DSi FLASH CART. It’s a huge legitimate reason to own these devices!
All it would take is a few hundred thousand people wanting to play “bob’s game” on Nintendo DS and it might start to bite into sales.
This has the potential to cause major damage not only to Nintendo, but to EVERY SINGLE LICENSED DEVELOPER FOR THE SYSTEM!I’m not even a licensed developer, what do I care? NOT MY PROBLEM!
It’s not clear if Pelloni thinks vague threats will retroactively influence Nintendo’s decision, or if he’s simply continuing to put on a show to build publicity for his open source release – but at least those who are curious will get a chance to judge “bob’s game” by the content of it’s code rather than the eccentricities of it’s creator.
This guy's game might be amazing, but at this point he's been such an immature dick / drama whore about the whole thing that I intend to avoid it simply so as not to support him.
Seriously why even post about it? This guy is clearly an arrogant prick who thinks the world revolves around him.
Lets move on already…
I'm still betting it all being "for show," like trying to hype up the game or something. It's hard to get attention for a homebrew project, but he's gotten more awareness for it than most. It could be a good game, and I hope it is – because it's just a free, legal game for me!
I won't be buying his game no matter what form it shows up in. Such a big baby doesn't deserve my money.
Simple solution: Release it as homebrew. Put "donate" button on website. Never hear Bob bitch and yell again (we'll see).
i hope curiosity doesn't get the better of us. even if i was curious this game might not be worth two squirts of piss. by the time we realize this it might be too late he will have already gained attention, money, and/or become licensed. i'm not saying this is the case it might be a great game who knows, but i don't want to support lunacy in the mean time. congrats to those who work hard and obtain their success through the proper channels and business conduct.
@ That One Guy: You're starting to think it's all… all a show? A big plea for attention? Like a publicity stunt or something?? Now I don't know what to think.
@senator
Uh, yeah sure – Why not? No intelligent person, capable of making a full length "retail quality" game could really be this selfish, stupid, and insane. I hope.
However, he did draw a lot of attention to his project, more than any other homebrew project i've seen. He could , in reality, be a polite – well adjusted guy. It's a little funny that a lot of insta-haters of bob's game are taking something happening on the internet at face value. Come on guys, it's the internet – nothing is real.
AAAAAAAA – another story about Bob – AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
I should have made it more apparent that I was being a sarcastic bugger in the above comment.
In the end, though, Bob is very useful.
For a while there was no exemplar, no model, of the deranged Nintendo Anti-fan. The one who would sit in dark rooms crying over announcements of Wii Anything, while cutting out faces of Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto and pasting them on Supermodel bodies. Writing lengthy (or very short and snide) remarks about how Nintendo has "abandoned their hardcore fans." The one who will sit in every piece of negative news about Nintendo, shrieking loudly.
But that was then. This is now, and now there is Bob Pelloni.
Why do you guys keep posting about this? I'm not complaining, I just don't understand. 🙁
locotank:
Although I have my own reservations about "spreading the Bob," I don't like to leave a series incomplete. Having already reported on the pre-insanity sit-in, the breakdown, the threats, the quitting, the comeback, etc etc – it only seems fair to tell readers about Bob's final decisions about what to do with his efforts.
Besides, everybody loves to hate a guy like Bob.
Okay. I am one of the participants in the Beta Test for the DS and iPhone ports. (I just recently found out!) So I obviously support the guy.
But it seems like none of you understand, he says this stuff because he's supposed to be "Evil". He "transformed" into the game's evil end boss and is now working under his personality. He's doing this as a way to garner interest. But it's all of you that are failing to remember this and twist it all out of proportion. Look he even said this himself:
"The name refers to the game inside the game created by the villain 'Bob' that represents me inside the game. It's a "4th-wall" meta-plot, hence the website. Everybody new to it doesn't bother to read past the first few sentences, so they get all huffy and make angry assumptions. That's the point. You're supposed to get angry at me (the villain), because angry people create hype."
Thank you Nick. This has seemed apparent to me for quite a while – from the moment he started styling his hair, to the plot references he made in his posts – that's why I haven't been too critical. Still, regardless of this behavior as a clever marketing strategy, I personally think it hurt his case with Nintendo – Often the surface image is all that matters. Why don't you drop me a line via the infendo tips email, or infendosean@gmail.com – I've attempted to contact Robert several times without success, perhaps you could answer some of my questions.
Well there isn't too much I can answer at the moment. I just recently found out I was listed as a tester. I didn't even know he was doing testing! So I haven't played it yet, he said he will contact me when it's ready. And I suspect that once I actually get the beta build he will most likely have things that he wouldn't want me showing. We'll see.
But I was in constant contact with him for a while. And I can tell you that he's completely sane and is a really nice guy. But he has stopped responding to my e-mails too for some reason. I don't know why, it might have something to do with his phone, he used that to check his e-mails. But I've looked over every detail about the game and know probably everything possible that he's shown. So if you have any general questions that just might not be clear, you can ask me if you want! 🙂
This man-
is the-
real-world equivalent-
of the-
Joker.
Get it through your thick skull Bob. No one likes you. Except for like 5 people.