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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2768 Joined: 18 Sep 2007     | Part of me thinks that Bob is a perfect illustration of why we desperately need TPoIP (Throat Punch over Internet Protocol) technology developed. The rest of me is ashamed that I gave the raging attention whore even this small sliver of satisfaction. -- Steve |
Muckraker  Posts: 349 Joined: 6 Feb 2008     | not to say that the guy didnt try or that his game isnt good, but seriously, so he didnt release it on the wii, BIG DEAL! release it over some other channels. ever think of the pc where you DONT NEED an sdk? every think of contacting valve and trying to get it published over steam? or why not release it for free over the internet and see how it does then? if enough people download it for free and have good things to say about it that will speak to publishers and game companies. and just look at audiosurf, sold millions over steam, so why didnt he try that? and while i agree that some game company heads dont deserve the praise they get *cough*tim sweeny, hes dead wrong about carmack. carmack and 4 other people worked on wolf 3d and doom alone, and carmack mostly does engine work for id, and in that regard hes one of the best in the industry. |
Paperboy Posts: 35 Joined: 30 Jun 2008     | Is anyone still surprised that Nintendo didn't want to work with him? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1477 Joined: 6 Feb 2008    | ...he didnt have a toilet cam I hope |
Copy Clerk Posts: 125 Joined: 21 Jan 2008    | If he wants a wide open development platform, should have gone for the PC. Aside from that, he didn't even make it past 3 weeks? Aside from foraging for food and attending to hygiene (which he had covered) I reckon I could spend that long or longer in here without going even half as crazy as he did. Can't have been far off doing just that during one summer holiday or other... |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 821 Joined: 15 Aug 2008  | I get the feeling that the Prince of Darkness will have deliciously ironic, and torturous fun with him in Hell. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3424 Joined: 6 Nov 2008   | That guy seems more like a dick than a game developer... oh wait most game developers are dicks. Anyway he probably could have bought WoW and he wouldn't have even had to vow to lock himself in his room. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 449 Joined: 10 Jun 2008  | It would have been awesome if his girlfriend or friends pranked him by playing the Mario theme song outside his windows at all hours. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2332 Joined: 14 Jan 2008    | Nintendo is trying to create their new console, the one they plug into your brain to make you buy more Nintendo crud then they turn you into a Terminator |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1753 Joined: 22 Oct 2008  |
Bit of a stretch, a guy like him have a girlfriend, or friends, no? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1407 Joined: 16 Dec 2008  | Maybe try a different corperation, Microsoft or Sony??? |
On the Record  Posts: 5923 Joined: 7 Mar 2008    |
damn you beat me to the gf comment as for the guy himself, yeah he's a bloody wanker as those across the pond would say. i read the story and thought "wow what a loser" i mean if he was as good of a coder as any of those ppl he mentioned he'd have made the game multi-platform with little difficulty |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1632 Joined: 21 Nov 2008   |
ha, aint that the truth |
BANNED  Posts: 819 Joined: 22 Dec 2008    | he should not give up. if he cant make it for the wii, he should just sell it for the pc or something. i hope that he wins!!! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1324 Joined: 3 Sep 2008 | Or just buy a SDK nintendo don't just give them away for free |
Copy Clerk Posts: 68 Joined: 24 Oct 2008  | What did he spend 15,000 hours working on without an SDK? Assets? Or was he trying to port it from another platform? edit: Ok, I guess I should have checked out his site first. Judging by the video he seems to have a running game (not the type of game I'd be interested in though). Why not just release it on the PC? |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 24 Nov 2008   |
Well, that is what he was trying to accomplish. To buy a Nintendo SDK. From Nintendo. In general, I do think I would have had some respect for the guy, should he had not turned out be such a whiner. Mental instability or not. I certainly would have applauded him had he pulled of his isolation marathon. I would even had had some sypathy for the quitting, given the health reasons. But all in all, his sheer hell bent determination to do the game all by himself and to a spesific platform, seems to have became his downfall. Well, that and the fact that he seems to think this one miracle creation would turn out to be something better than anything "Miyamoto, Itoi, Kojima, Carmack, and Wright COMBINED" had ever designed. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 137 Joined: 7 Jul 2008     | He's comparing himself with Carmack in terms of "I can make a whole crappy game by myself" whereas Carmack could design and write an advanced 3D engine in his sleep (and he probably does).
Spot on description. Perhaps if this self-righteous "guru" realised that there are other platforms than the Wii, he might get a clue. Nintendo are laughing their arses off. Edit: Actually read the whole article... |
The Man So Nice They Named Him Twice  Posts: 779 Joined: 4 Jan 2008    | This isn't Nam, this is game creation. There are rules. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 192 Joined: 24 Jul 2008   | This is really sad, actually. Imagine the poor guy's family and friends? He can't have been that stable to begin with if he thinks that he can make a next gen title all on his own, and even less lucid if he thought Nintendo will care about him at all. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2239 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 |
"Shomer fucking shabbat!" Aaaanyways, it's a shame that this guy didn't get the SDK (assuming his game was actually good), but the excerpts from the story seem to make him out as an egotistical and overconfident individual (though I have to say that that's better than the many people who are too shy or self-doubting to make a game on their own). Rather than sit like a bitch in a dark room for over a quarter of a year, he should have just immediately jumped for other options. He won't get far in that industry if he can't take more initiative and responsibility. |
On the Record Posts: 5923 Joined: 7 Mar 2008 |
no he wanted them to give it to him
The Carmack was years ahead of his time for what he can do and still can do. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4169 Joined: 6 Sep 2008  | I'm inclined to be sympathetic, it sounds like his delirium was a result of him being stuck in that room. Still, the whole protest was a dumb idea to begin with. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 135 Joined: 30 Oct 2008   | Let me get this straight -- the guy allegedly has this game running on something, but he decides to go all Henry David Thoreau in order to get Nintendo to give/sell him the tools to port his software? Either my attention honar just pinged, or someone is making a pot pie in my kitchen without asking me first. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4169 Joined: 6 Sep 2008 |
...I'm not sure what that means but uh.. YEAH! WHAT THAT GUY SAID! Pot pie and... and stuff! |
Beat Writer  Posts: 174 Joined: 28 Dec 2008   |
I mentioned something to him about this in an email, telling him it would be better if he looked for other small DS developers and worked with them in getting a kit. His response left me thinking he was a bit sketchy. Also, he's started his counter again. It's at 32 currently. |
BANNED  Posts: 6317 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | So... He demands and SDK, just, outright demands it, has the sheer audacity to think himself better then Carmack, and he wonders why he's a failure at his own protest? User was banned for: The hypocrisy is KILLING me.. (Permanent) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 141 Joined: 9 Jan 2009  | This guy's a raving lunatic |
Beat Writer Posts: 135 Joined: 30 Oct 2008 |
Was it the Thoreau reference? I thought it safer to point to "Civil Disobedience" rather than risk offense by comparing Mr. Pelloni to Gandhi or King. The last sentence was merely a play on the acronym-turned-word sonar. I suppose I told the Internet how old I am in using it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1853 Joined: 7 Jul 2008     | I now present to you The Escapist forum user timeline of this protest Protest Starts: "Go Bob! Defeat evil Nintendo!" Meanwhile I feel good knowing that my belief that somebody demanding an SDK from a company is not all there was right. I mean seriously, this guy's comparing himself to Carmack, Miyamoto, et. al, and he didn't even think "hm maybe I should get this SDK up first..." but no. I have no sympathy for such craziness. I have less sympathy for the people who thought that he somehow was in the right. Like people should just hand out SDKs to complete nutcases. Not to mention the fact that hey, he could've just gone through XNA and made something for Arcade. Seems to me this was just a thinly veiled attempt at attention whoring. Hell he doesn't even rate a John Romero. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4169 Joined: 6 Sep 2008 |
So even with food in is belly and sleep in his head, he's a crazy. Okay. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 96 Joined: 22 Oct 2008  | Sounds like a barmcake to me. |
Paperboy Posts: 42 Joined: 24 Nov 2008 |
From the Bob's Game site, 2008-12-28 entry (emphasis by me): |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 860 Joined: 15 Dec 2008  | Poor Bob. I'm gonna send the guy a stress ball shaped like Miyamoto's head. What lesson did Bob learn that we should all know by now? "Wii make money!" |
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Bob's Game Guy Gives Up
Robert Pelloni, the developer of Bob's Game who vowed to lock himself in a room for 100 days over Nintendo's refusal to give him a software development kit, is ending his protest after experiencing increasingly negative side effects from the solitary confinement.
Pelloni has single-handedly developed Bob's Game, a "retail-length RPG type console game" which he claims to have invested five years and 15,000 hours in creating. But after Nintendo allegedly jerked him around when he tried to get the SDK, leaving him unable to legitimately publish the game, Pelloni decided to draw attention to his plight by isolating himself in a room for 100 days with no contact with the outside world beyond updates on his blog and a webcam that allowed the curious to peek in on his torment.
But as things dragged on, Pelloni's updates grew increasingly rage-filled and erratic. On January 6, he wrote, "There is nobody like me. I have created the entire game, start to finish. I am far better than Miyamoto, Itoi, Kojima, Carmack, and Wright COMBINED. NONE of these 'designers' could create the entire thing if their lives depended on it! They rely on the assistance of others- and take all the credit. They don't even deserve their titles! I have bested them all by far." Two days later he simultaneously apologized to Nintendo for his words and vowed to exact a horrific vengeance if the company continued to deny him the SDK, and began complaining of a persistent headache and feelings of paranoia. Finally, only a few weeks after the protest began, he decided to bring it to a close January 10 with one final, intensely bitter blog update.
"It was foolish of me to think Nintendo would hear my pleas," he wrote. "They're just another heartless corporation, only interested in the biggest profits. The core gamers don't matter anymore. It's not about the games or the fans, it's about spreading out and getting casual gamers to buy Wii Fit."
"I've had enough. I'm ending the protest. I give up on getting the SDK," he continued. "I really tried my best. Show's over. It's just not going to work. Sorry, everyone. I just can't stay in here. My head won't stop pounding. I feel like I'm losing my mind. It's like I'm splitting in half. I keep seeing these posts that I apparently wrote, but I can't remember writing them. I'm afraid I'm becoming someone else entirely."
But is it really the end? Bob's still not the most coherent guy on the planet but he seemed to imply on his site that his protest isn't actually over just yet. "The mild-mannered programmer of Bob's Game, hopelessly tormented into a state of apparent madness from solitary confinement, has been valiantly pulled from the tragic wreckage of his former office by the local authorities- but they were too late," the blog says. "Once again barricading himself inside of what appears to the untrained eye to be the same office but is assuredly a secret dungeon lair, he will begin carrying out his ridiculous, meticulous, deluded, convoluted, senseless mess of vengeance... Or has he already begun?"
Stay tuned!
via: GameCyte
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