Line #28 VideoGame/BobsGame


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3	->''"It's a game, about a guy making a game, who is in a game, but is also making a game, and his marketing campaign is like a game, and that's about a game, in a game, but also outside the game, where he is making a game, about him making a game, which is about the game industry, and you play other games. In the game."''
4	-->-- Inanimate ([=TIGsource=] forum)
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6	"What is 'bob's game?'"
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8	Short answer: An ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''-style {{RPG}} developed by one man, Robert Pelloni.
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10	Long answer: It's actually three "games":
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12	# The aforementioned indie RPG.
13	# A competitive puzzle game ''inside'' the RPG, which is ''also'' called "bob's game," and is developed by Bob's in-game alter ego, "bob." Are you confused yet?
14	# The "ViralMarketing" campaign for both "bob's games," which is called...you guessed it..." bob's game."
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16	Since almost nothing is known about the video game yet, this article will focus mainly on the viral ad.
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19	!!Tropes from "bob's game" (the RPG) include:
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21	* AffectionateParody: [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} Tetrid]], [[VideoGame/{{Pong}} Ping]], and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Ramio]].
22	* AllLowercaseLetters: The title of the game.
23	* AuthorAvatar: One of the main characters is a self-taught developer named "bob", a ''delusional, egotistical maniac'' who also happens to be the game's BigBad.
24	* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: The final boss fight against "bob" involves doing this. In the most literal sense possible.
25	* ChildProdigy:
26	** Yuu's little brother is studying Advanced Mechanical Engineering, and he's only six!
27	** Yuu is a video game prodigy, easily beating Tetrid when he was very young (which not even the developer could do) and beating the world record on Ping [[GameplayAndStorySegregation supposedly]] on the first try.
28	* FakeLongevity: The InUniverseGameClock really serves no purpose other than forcing you to wait for things to happen.
29	* FetchQuest: The very first quest you get in the game is to get some batteries for Yuu's mother.
30	* AMinorKidroduction: The game starts with Yuu's family moving in when he was a young child, making a friend, and playing Tetrid before fast-forwarding to when he is 12 years old.
31	* NintendoHard:
32	** Tetrid is insanely difficult.
33	** Ping.
34	* {{Pun}}: Bob seems to ''really enjoy this.'' The main character is called "Yuu" and his portable game system is called the "Gantendo BS", for starters.
35	* OverlyLongGag: "bob"'s LaughingMad at the end of the demo lasts over a minute.
36	* SanitySlippage: Flashbacks show "bob"'s descent into madness over five years in his room making his game.
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38	!!Tropes from www.bobsgame.com include:
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40	* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Subverted. They use telepathy.
41	* ArcWords:
42	** "What is 'bob's game?'"
43	** '''''REGGIE!'''''
44	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Bob ends up like this.
45	* {{Determinator}}: Bob. ''Both of them.''
46	* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Love ''of Nintendo'', no less!
47	* MadArtist: "bob," although he's less homicidal than most examples.
48	* MindScrew: To the point where Bob's reveal that the whole thing was a viral ad was [[spoiler: just another plot twist in the viral ad. He was brainwashed to say it was a viral ad by aliens.]]
49	* PoesLaw: The viral ad pissed so many people off that many insist that the real Bob is just like Viral!Bob.
50	* RoomFullOfCrazy: "bob's" [[strike: office]] ''TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED UNDERGROUND FORTRESS!'' No "writing on the wall," per se, but he ''does'' have that LED counter...
51	* SmallNameBigEgo: Viral!Bob is the embodiment of this. To the point that some people refuse to listen to the fact that it was viral marketing.
52	* StealthParody: Is Bob mocking egotistical indie game developers? Or is he one of them?
53	* ViralMarketing: Or so he claims.
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Context VideoGame / BobsGame