As you can see from the image to the right, Bob's Game is a game by one person, and that one person is Bob. Over time Bob acquired all the skills necessary to create a video game, and in five years, made one himself for the Nintendo DS. As GamerNode puts it: "If [Bob] can finish a game all by himself in five years, what's the excuse for the 10-year delay of Duke Nukem Forever? Eh?"

Here's the trailer:

The title is simply called, Bob's Game. The DS title is a 2D adventure game. It has 20 hours of gameplay, over 200 hand-drawn characters, weather effects that change with real time, dialogue, and originally composed music.

Pelloni programmed the game, wrote the script, did the artwork, produced the music, and learned all the skills necessary to do it all on his own.

He feels that the opportunity for individuals to make their own games is slowly slipping away.

"The game industry is evolving rapidly into a new era where titles are made by teams of more than a hundred developers. I saw a window of opportunity quickly closing- what may be the last chance for making a console game to be possible by a single individual.

"All concepts, story, code, sprites, tiles, music, samples, fonts, etc. were created entirely from scratch by me- and I had to teach myself the skills as I went along, said Pelloni.

He is currently talking with a few publishers about his game, and we wish him all the best.

chautemoc via gamernode.com »