100 day Nintendo isolation protest ends early

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Word has spread that Bob Pelloni, creator of Bob's Game, has ended his 100 day protest early due to an extreme headache. Those of you familiar with the ongoing saga of Bob's request of a Nintendo DS Software Development Kit (who, despite claiming to meet the requirements to receive an SDK, has not been able to get his hands on one) will know that Bob has been working on Bob's game for almost five years now. After declaring that he'd locked himself in his room to work on ports for the Android, iPhone, and other less restrictive platforms, Bob lasted exactly one month before raising the white flag and admitting defeat.

Billed as a "fifteen thousand hour masterpiece", Bob's game appears to take the form of an RPG, "with focus on story, puzzles, item collection, and communication instead of repetitive battles with palette-swapped enemies". The feat alone is impressive, but one must question his credibility as a reliable business partner, having posted near-daily rants on Nintendo's incompetence and the supposedly retail-like quality of his project. Where he will go from here remains to be seen.

Bob's Game Cinematic Trailer:

#1 CivicRR on 11 Jan 2009 - 14:38

Correction Neowin:

Bob Pelloni, creator of "Bob's Failure"

(1 reply) #2 bradsday on 11 Jan 2009 - 14:43

I think maybe Bob needs some help. (And not with developing his game.)

#2.1 bradsday on 11 Jan 2009 - 14:47

After looking at his game and its cast of characters, only hope that Bob doesn't have any guns in his house.

#3 GreyWolfSC on 11 Jan 2009 - 15:17

Sounds like Bob needs to stop huffing paint...

(3 replies) #4 Soldiers33 on 11 Jan 2009 - 16:01

i feel sorry for the guy. looks like a really good game. what was the reason for nintendo not giving him the sdk?

#4.1 QuietStorm21A on 11 Jan 2009 - 16:21

Yeah the game did seem to look very good

#4.2 n_K on 11 Jan 2009 - 21:29

Good?
That game looks outstanding, hope he manages to actually release it, hell I'd buy it!

#4.3 GreyWolfSC on 12 Jan 2009 - 05:41

If the video shows his workplace that would be one reason. Nintendo only licenses SDKs to established business that can secure the developer kits.

(3 replies) #5 PurpleHaze420 on 11 Jan 2009 - 16:35

After reading this post I had a little look at the game and also his site with blog etc. Feel sorry for the guy, he's looks like he's put alot of work into his project and for Nintendo to deny him access to the SDK is just harsh. Coulden't help laughing a little at his post from 2009-01-08 though;

DON'T YOU DARE IGNORE ME, NINTENDO.
I DEMAND THE SDK- AND IF YOU DO NOT OBEY I WILL TAKE MY REVENGE, YOU MISERABLE FOOLS!
I WILL RUN YOUR PATHETIC LITTLE COMPANY INTO THE GROUND AND SPIT ON THE SMOLDERING REMAINS!
I WILL CRUSH YOU INTO DUST AND FLUSH AWAY THE ASHES LIKE ANY OTHER FILTH! ROTTING, PUTRID SEWAGE- THAT'S ALL YOU ARE!

I think he's done the right thing in stopping the 100 day solitary confinment protest, in all fairness all thats ever going to cause is madness..

#5.1 nevann on 11 Jan 2009 - 17:08

Be funny if he does

#5.2 +dead.cell on 12 Jan 2009 - 11:23

MADNESS...

#5.3 Mando on 12 Jan 2009 - 20:04

LOL how disillusioned is this guy?...its their product, its their SDK and they can choose who or who cannot develop with their SDK.......I almost felt for him until I read that.....he needs to get through puberty and then realise, oh this is how NOT to act to a international corporation you want help or a business relationship with. Ruin their pathetic little company.......lmfao Id love to have seen their faces as they pressed BLOCK! how will he do that by boycotting the latest pokemon game for his DS Lite. Im sure their investors/shareholders are bricking it!

(1 reply) #6 x-byte on 11 Jan 2009 - 16:45

He has ruined any chances of getting anything the way he have acted. No one will publish his game now.

#6.1 Magallanes on 12 Jan 2009 - 17:00

Indeed.

In fact, while the SDK is a bit expensive and some sort hard to obtain but the real problem is to publish the game.

#7 Solid Knight on 11 Jan 2009 - 18:09

Perhaps he should have spent some of his development time learning how to do business.

#8 Aahz on 11 Jan 2009 - 18:26

It takes some serious effort to make a gigantic soulless corporation look like the good guy.

#9 shakey on 11 Jan 2009 - 19:02

bobs big game of just talking.............

(1 reply) #10 PROGAME on 11 Jan 2009 - 21:15

he now wrote policemen woke him up as he was sleeping and faking death in his webcam..

one crazy dude...

#10.1 PureLegend on 12 Jan 2009 - 07:46

I left that out due to his state of mind making it an unreliable claim.

(1 reply) #11 Sam Symons Live on 11 Jan 2009 - 21:28

I've read a lot about him and Nintendo really made it harder for him than it should've been. Shame too...with all this publicity I think it would've been a big seller.

#11.1 Skyfrog on 11 Jan 2009 - 22:18

If they gave in just because someone was acting like (or is) a nutjob, they'd have to give in to everyone that acts like one.

(1 reply) #12 ahhell on 12 Jan 2009 - 00:34

Uh...why is Bob never wearing an clothes?

#12.1 +warwagon on 13 Jan 2009 - 17:14

ahhell said,

Now that you mentioned it I see it to. Funny! I guess he wanted to make the game while going full monty

#13 James123 on 12 Jan 2009 - 00:57

The 5 years he's spent alone working on this seems to have negatively affected his mental health too

Also I take it he hasn't seen Urban Empires when he keeps claims this is the biggest game made by one person. Personally I think he's over-estimating what he's done.

#14 Atmos42 on 12 Jan 2009 - 01:22

This guy seems to lack not only social skills, but enough common sense to not go out of his way to make himself seem like a crazed nutcase. After awhile, you start thinking, "No wonder they didn't give this guy an SDK! He's insane!"

#15 Jeanpr7 on 12 Jan 2009 - 05:38

Well i think it is something really cool for a person to make a game on its own but....

to be 5 years doing nothing but creating the game is just bad.... and well i feel sorry for him that he wasted 5 years of his life for "nothing" so far... but still i think he didnt have to get so mad about things not going well and he should of just keep trying to get nintendo's attention. In the other hand i think is ok for him to get mad cause like waste 5 years for nothing i would get mad too, but he took it way too far... idk maybe been in his room for 5 years really have created him some really serious mental problems =/...

#16 McDave on 12 Jan 2009 - 06:18

Maybe someone with a SDK should "Employ" him so this crazy bloke can get his game published. Saying that if I owned a company and this guy turned up would lock the doors; a bath short of a plug.

#17 Wiggz on 12 Jan 2009 - 08:27

I think I'd be more inclined to vote for him or be a general follower if a) he wasn't sitting near naked in his "trailer" whilst coding his game and b) he actually called his trailer a "trailer" on his YouTube vid and not his "tailer"

I'm sure Nintendo will kick themselves at missing out on this hip and happening Modern-Zelda wannabe game.

Having said that, if he has coded himself, it's a large feat!

#18 C_Guy on 12 Jan 2009 - 16:06

I'd have a headache too if I wasted five years on a load of crap and Nintendo told me I couldn't have the sdk for their hardware.

The best resolution would be for Nintendo to press charges for the threatening letters and messages. If the cops go in and pull him out of the house he can see the sun for the first time in half a decade. It might help with the madness.

#19 Magallanes on 12 Jan 2009 - 17:11

I don't get it.

The normal path:
obtain the sdk -> then build the game (using the sdk )-> and later publish it.

So, you can't create a game without have access to the sdk. For the NDS case, you can create a game using a free-community libraries but those games/ application done with such tools are incompatible with the sdk and runs only in emulator / nds illegal flashcard, so in the case he was able to obtain the sdk, then he will need to re adapt all the work for the sdk, and sometimes the best option is to start over (conserving the graphics assent).

So, is it real this game, or is just a flash presentation showing some screenshot of a inexistent game?.

#20 VTSV on 12 Jan 2009 - 18:09

This guy gets no sympathy from me. As an independent game programmer, I know how hard it is to get an official SDK. You basically already have to be a published developer. But he doesn't meet the requirements, so he needs to stop complaining.
http://www.warioworld.com/apply/
"We require that companies are working from secure business offices. Home offices are not considered secure locations."
Dude's programming in his underwear in his parents basement for a month straight. I don't think that's the kind of stuff Nintendo wants to deal with...

Last edited by VTSV on 12 Jan 2009 - 18:44

#21 Scaldari Anitoba on 17 Jan 2009 - 02:57

went to his website http://www.bobsgame.com/ and he has flipped his lid! i think this guy, altough may have made a half decent game, and might have been cool to have on a zune, has finaly gone completly bonkers. Nintendo, you should have just offered to buy his game for some pittance plus royalties decent if it actualy sold. poor dude....

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