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So he eschewed the small publishers that expressed interest and applied for an official Nintendo DS development kit. One to which only one platform could do proper justice, and that was a Nintendo handheld.

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It had its charms and viewers expressed an interest in playing, even while it wasn’t entirely clear what the game was even about or why the creator was grandstanding so much about it being a solo project when the solo-created Cave Story that basically codified the modern concept of PC indie games had eaten that particular lunch years ago.īut in the mind of its creator, Bob’s Game was so much more than a pixellated distraction any halfway competent RPG Maker user could’ve farted out in a month – Bob’s Game was a vision. Which these days is worth about half a McDonalds sandwich but was a minor phenomenon in 2008 Youtube dollars.

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And the response worldwide was a resounding “Okay.” Literally titled Bob’s Game and looking about as good as one could expect from a game whose lead artist, when the project started, just about knew how to draw the curtains, the response was generally positive and the trailer clocked 100k views. Some dude called Robert Pelloni released a trailer for the 16-bit style pixel art RPG he claimed to have been working on for the last five years and had just about finished. In August 2008, the president of Mauritania was deposed in a military coup, eleven mountaineers died in the K2 disaster, and then something really tragic happened.

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THE BALLAD OF BOB’S GAME View Full Transcript There’s that purity of artistic vision I was talking about. Of course, for that to work, there actually has to be a video game to deliver that message, and that was the sticking point for today’s subject: a game by someone named Bob called Bob’s Game. But at least you can be assured of a purity of vision, suspect and weebish and slightly humiliating to bring up in mixed company though it may be, and they provide an unmatched insight into the mind and perceptions of an auteur. It’s a world of contrasts: for every Undertale or Stardew Valley there’s a Yandere Simulator standing behind them breathing loudly through its mouth.

But speaking of ropey cum blasts, for our newest episode of the Zero Punctuation occasional guide to whoops we don’t say that anymore moments in gaming history, we turn to the world of solo developed indie games.

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