About

It's A Me!

Who are you?

My name is Robert Fearon. Some people call me Oddbob. Some more irritating people get it confused with the chap from Carry On Screaming and call me Oddbod. We don’t speak of those people though.

What do you do?

Primarily, I swear. Sometimes I don’t swear.

I’ve been writing games for a couple of years and writing about games for longer than I care to think about. Currently as well as running my home from home, Retro Remakes, I also run Bagfull Of Wrong wherein I indulge my arena shooter fetishes and love of all things pixel. I write for xnPlay, a review site for Xbox 360 Community Games.

The New Entertainment Manifesto is where my games begin. The art of entertainment is the starting point for all that I do with Bagfull Of Wrong. The New Entertainment Manifesto is a formal declaration. It is not ironic. I do not seek to innovate. If I innovate it will be by accident and in the course of trying to entertain.

Media

The blog you’re reading was elected by respected magazine Edge as one of their website of the month things a while back for a reason still lost to me. I’ve been interviewed for The Guardian, Retro Gamer magazine, British Indie and some other places I can barely remember. My favourite interview honours still go to the wonderful and lovely Gnome of Gnome’s Lair.

I am available for interviews should you wish to talk. I like to talk. Contact me.

My work has been featured at two consecutive Eurogamer Expo’s as part of the Pixel-Lab Indie Arcade where thankfully, nobody had a seizure whilst playing or after playing my games. In 2009 I also attended the Show & Yell event where I nearly fell off a chair whilst advocating accessibility in gaming to a room full of developers and journalists.

I am happy to speak to a room full of people providing I am not required to promote myself or my own work. I’m far more comfortable eulogising the works of others. Self promotion is deathly dull and I prefer to have no part in that beyond the necessities required for getting my work out there on the internet. Again, contact me. As I’m a full time carer, I cannot guarantee my time but I will endeavor to attend any event, life permiting. I do not have a passport nor the means of escaping this country so UK only, please.

Can I buy your games?

Thanks to the wonderful talents of Andy Noble, you can purchase one of my games on the Xbox Live Indie Games Service. The link to this is here. You may click it. The full game costs $1.

All my PC games are available to download on “pay what the game is worth to you” terms. There is no minimum donation required, should you not wish to pay any money or you simply cannot afford to donate I have no issues nor problems with that. The download page is left open and unprotected on Bagfull Of Wrong. Games are meant to be played and I would sooner have my games played than not played.

Can I port one of your games to x system?

Providing you’re not a twat, I have no objections.

The source code to all my games is non portable and a mess and I’d sooner not hand it out given the choice but I’m happy to supply any artwork/media of my own creation as well as any advice or explanations required. Invariably, the music I use I do not have the rights to grant further usage for and all rights are retained by the respective musicians for their work.

What Next?

My last released PC game was Squid And Let Die available through Bagfull Of Wrong, the first of 3 planned releases in 2010. I am currently working on SYNSO3 and after that, artist Ed Clewes and myself have a project in gestation. It involves pies.

Get in touch

You can contact me, if you so desire, at oddbob@merseyremakes.co.uk for a chat.