For the last few months, amateur game developer Robert Pelloni has made an Internet sensation of his quest to make an official Nintendo DS game. Pelloni claimed to have spent five years, on his own, developing a role-playing game for the DS. He called his work "Bob's Game," and posted video clips on his site to show how much he had accomplished.
Late last year, Pelloni let the world know that he was frustrated with Nintendo. He said he contacted the gaming company to obtain a DS development kit, so he could release his game officially. But, he claimed, the company reneged in providing him one.
With neither side commenting, it's been hard to figure out what really happened with "Bob's Game."
Last week, just days before Pelloni released a downloadable demo of his game (available through his website), MTV Multiplayer brought the matter up to Fils-Aime.
Josh Griffiths writes: "We’ve written about Bob’s Game in the past, an infamous “joke” Kickstarter campaign that raised over $10,409. Fully funded in May 2014, it's success presumably horrified its creator, Bob. That would probably explain why he vanished without a trace for two years."
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Stephanie Smith writes: "2 years ago a Kickstarter for a puzzle-RPG called Bob's Game appeared. It managed to raise over $10,000 toward its development and was scheduled expected to be delivered at the end of last year. Well, I doubt it was expected, the Kickstarter was only updated once during the campaign, and since the Kickstarter itself didn't look too promising I would have assumed that he just ran off with the money."
Wasn't this the guy who screamed for years about Reggie trying to not support indie devs by not paying for his game?
In the update he basically describes himself as homeless and using the cash he got from backers to try and get his life on track.
This is just plain weird.....