Robert Fearon
I'm me. I've not murdered anyone (yet), I'm not exactly famous although I've swore at some famous people. I try to forget about a lot of that though, its all in the past now...
I do remakey things and swear a lot. I'm also a whore to the media, its sad, true and official. Sign on the dotted line for a rent-a-quote please.
Don't blame me for your haircut though. I take no responsibility for that whatsoever. Although I say haircut - I mean "lack of haircut" obviously. Not to be confused with a lack of hair, which would be untrue.
I'm also web monkey for the work of smila so that he can concentrate on making pretty things. Its a dirty job but someone has to do it.
Hug me, I'm deadly
Me Me Me
The main thing I do with my time when I'm not looking after the good lady wife and a small child is run Retro Remakes, a community of incredibly talented folks who breathe new life into old games.
Aside from RR, I tend to witter away to anyone who will listen over at my personal corner of the interwebs. I don't call it Gibber for nothing.
In the past I've also contributed to the fine web magazine Way Of The Rodent invariably taking up the sword of justice for games a little left of the mainstream. as well as contributing the odd review to Gibbage.
I've also been the subject of an Arsecast interview discussing remakes and indie games and stuff., which appears to have led onto me co-hosting the thing.
G-Force Masterclass
13 Level Masterclass
STompy provides a masterclass on how to cruise through the first 13 levels of G-Force using every trick at his disposal.
He even shames some of my playing and I wrote the darned thing :-)
The oldest of old school
8 Bit Online
...I feel vaguely uncomfortable that the only route I know in the game leads straight to the Bumming Parlour...
Jet Set Willy Online
Projects
Despite spending far too much time playing, writing and writing about Indie games of various flavours - I'm a musician and artist first and have a far too encyclopedic knowledge of pop music over the years, some might even suggest obsessive. But thats for another place, not here.
Gameswise, my current pet projects are G-Force and an as yet untitled shooter currently going under the name of Project MFOR - likely to involve badgers.
Anti-Casual
Can a match 3 be art?
...the constant ticking as the bricks appear, the moog-esque synths that bend and warp as you click and the stark graphics that dispense with all the frivolities and niceties that the portals so adore...Stack Attack
Firepower
According to The Arsecast Host, I'm officially the nicest person in Retro. This is, of course <insert expletives here and references to someones mother and various kitchen implements and anything else remotely rude you can think of>.
To the misfortune of the readership at large, I have been interviewed in PC Zone magazine and Retro Gamer magazine, the first with regards to the Indie scene and copyright infringement (specifically related to the Bizarre Creations/GridWars2 incident), the latter with regards to the Retro Remakes Big Competition. More recently, myself and the JSWO team were privileged enough to get 6 whole pages in Retro Gamer to discuss the games development, the why's, wherefors and what the fup we were thinkings.
We lost a dimension somewhere...
Accessibility
There is a Game Accessibility group here at GGE if you want to find out more on how to make your games accessible.
I also recommend a trip over to the Game Accessibility home page to find out more.
If one person in 3 months can make the most accessible game outside of academia...
...whats your excuse?
Communicate
Keeping The Spirit Alive
Lets get this party started, bring the past into the present, dance the fandango with a small badger and shout from the rooftops that its always the playability that counts...Remakes United
Games I've had a hand in...
- TransversionEX - assistant level designer
- Bobaroids 2 - pretty but poor Asteroids clone
- Bobaroids - poor Asteroids clone
- Android 1 Remake
- A Monty Mole Christmas
- Love You Long Time (contains Atari2600 styled porn)
- Kokotoni Wilf Remake
- Jet Set Willy Online
- G-Force
- Curse Of The Aztec Tomb
- Brainstorm Remake
- Beast Invaders 2
- Shufl GBA - Gameboy tileset
- Vector Infector PSP - designed the PC original
- Tantalus - short music loop
- Hunchback Remake
My Rodent Contributions
Sites I contribute to...
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We Make The Cops Look Dumb Feed
The latest beta release of G-Force sneaks out of the Mersey Remakes camp filled with Xmas cheer, pudding and brandy. Not forgetting a large dollop of explosions, lights and flashy things. Not bad considering we've taken six months off from the game. We get there in the end. ...
"I do have one thing I'd really beg of the designers, and in fact any designers thinking of including a similar thing in their games - please, please, please leave the cod philosophical bollocks at home. That is, unless you actually have something to say with it and it works in context with the game ...
Has it really been six months of this year that I’ve been unable to get close enough to a computer for long enough to actually develop something? Blimmeny. It’s been quite the year for “things that do get in the way of working on a game”. Not being well for a while earlier in ...
Have Kuju managed to fuck up the arena shooter by bringing it to a technically underpowered hand held device? Does the control scheme actually work? All this and more answered within! Exciting times... ...
?In an hour I had £900 worth of games down. In two hours I had £2204809385, in three hours I?d consumed the planet with my dirty filthy greed for Nintendo products and I?m now shitting DS Roms out of my arsehole via the R4 and my leg has bizarrely been replaced with a wooden peg? ...
