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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2486 Joined: 29 Nov 2007     | Wow. If it means that much to him, I'll buy the game. |
On the Record  Posts: 5958 Joined: 7 Feb 2008     | Huh... this should be interesting. Still Nintendo's unwillingness to do anything with Mother 3 does prove there is a screw loose over there somewhere. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 604 Joined: 17 Oct 2007     | I locked myself in a room for 100 days once, but that was for fun. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4135 Joined: 6 Sep 2008    | Or maybe it's because he's batshit crazy... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1374 Joined: 16 Jul 2008    | He can afford to do this? |
On the Record  Posts: 6204 Joined: 10 Mar 2008    | This should be interesting... |
Senior Editor  Posts: 2262 Joined: 9 Jan 2007     |
Ding ding ding diiiiiiiiiing! We have a winnah! Sorry, but this guy is looney tunes. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1225 Joined: 18 Jun 2008    | Merry Christmas? |
Paperboy  Posts: 47 Joined: 23 Nov 2008    | does he truly believe nintendo is watching or is this hype building for the internet release when nintendo says no? |
On the Record Posts: 5958 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 | Mmmmm Crazy Sauce... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3252 Joined: 8 May 2008  |
And a happy New Year. This man is either a genius or not mentally sound. Or, maybe, the game just wasn't that good and he's gone into denial after all that work he put into it. Or, he's nuts. |
News Room Contributor Posts: 2410 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 |
If you're crazy enough to make and finance (I hope it wasn't his parents) a game and call it "Bob's Game", you're crazy enough to pull a stunt like this. I for one applaud his diligeninsanity. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 730 Joined: 29 Feb 2008   | I gotta give it to the guy that's true devotion. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 785 Joined: 20 Sep 2007   | He sounds completely nuts! ... Maybe he's the new Hideo Kojima? :D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2132 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | You sure he wasn't going to do that anyway? |
BANNED  Posts: 2505 Joined: 19 Aug 2008  | I don't think Nintendo is going to care. In 100 days the protest will be over and Nintendo will forget about it.
That is also the correct answer User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Paperboy Posts: 22 Joined: 27 May 2007 |
Yeah maybe he just don't want to spend xmas and easter with his family. Awful music in the game trailer. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 932 Joined: 27 Apr 2008     |
I bet Nintendo are keeping an eye on this, and when he comes out they're just going to say no again. And then they'll sacrifice a few virgins and drink the blood of the innocent. |
Paperboy Posts: 47 Joined: 23 Nov 2008 |
All hail Mario, lord of the damned. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3725 Joined: 18 Dec 2007  | Wouldn't it suck if he did get the Dev Kit but the game ended up sucking? 5 years working on this game and 100 days trapped in a room only to be known as the guy who made that shitty RPG, how tragic. |
On the Record  Posts: 5484 Joined: 13 Aug 2008  |
Unfortunately, this is probably true. And how hard would it bite if he did get a dev kit, and the game sucked? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2452 Joined: 12 Jul 2008 | You can't win against a giant rich corporation like Nintendo. I just stopped buying their products. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 919 Joined: 22 Jul 2008   | Knowing Nintendo, they'd probably be watching him and laughing while they are eating kittens. Really, I highly doubt this will work. Maybe he should try to port his game to the PC and release it online himself. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1651 Joined: 1 Oct 2008 | *face palm* |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3587 Joined: 6 Aug 2008  | I don't have a Ds and I would buy the game, good on him and screw Nintendo, if he's going to put in that much effort they could at least help the guy. |
Paperboy  Posts: 49 Joined: 7 Jan 2009 | Why can't he just suck it up and just torrent it? |
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Bob's Game Developer Stages 100 Day Protest to Nintendo
Robert Pelloni, the one-man development team behind Bob's Game, is locking himself in his office for 100 days in protest of Nintendo's apparent refusal to grant him a development kit.
"I cannot leave this viridian room," Pelloni wrote. "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...This is my 100 day protest to Nintendo!"
Pelloni, who claims to have been working on this "retail length RPG type console game" for five years and 15,000 hours, met with Nintendo last February and then had problems even getting an application for a license to acquire a software development kit, which would let him put his game onto the Nintendo DS. "I asked the WarioWorld division, and they sent me to marketing," he wrote. "I talked to marketing and they said apply with WarioWorld division! The agreement on the application states I will receive a decision within 6-8 weeks. It has been 17 weeks!"
As Pelloni sees it, Nintendo is refusing to grant him an SDK because it's wary of the nature of the game as a one-man independent project. "Someone at Nintendo doesn't like this project, because it blurs the line between homebrew and commercial," Pelloni said. "It's a special case - an industry first - and it's going to take someone in the company taking extra initiative and making a move...can I fly there and negotiate? I asked that already. They don't know."
Whether this is a publicity stunt or, sadly, just a lost cause, you have to give Pelloni credit for his persistence, not just in developing a "retail length RPG" by his damn self over 5 years, but because he seems completely unflagged in spite of it all. Despite admitting to the failure of other fan endeavors like the Mother 3 campaign, he is wholly convinced that Nintendo is listening and will eventually come around. "The longer this goes on, the more interesting it becomes," Pelloni said. "I'm not wrong, and it will work. I'll see you there on day 100, REGGIE!"
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