OddMobb

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OddMobb is a company based in Emeryville, California, started by Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna after they closed the Oddworld Inhabitants videogame studio. It has been modelled on a traditional Hollywood production company, functioning as a creative hub that outsources technical production of its ideas to external developers. It is the company responsible for rereleasing the Oddworld videogames on digital distribution services as well as the upcoming Antisocial Network.

People

Sherry McKenna is the Chief Executive Officer of OddMobb. Beneath her are President Larry Shapiro, Executive Officer Jerome Engel, Chief Technology Officer Daniel Goldman, and Chief Creative Officer Lorne Lanning. McKenna, Engel and Goldman sit on the board of directors along with Terry Opdendyk—founder of, and General Partner at, Onset Ventures, which invests in OddMobb[1]–and Noah Doyle.[2]

While speaking at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Jeff Braun (co-founder of Maxis), ‘let slip some comments’ that revealed he had been helping with the business aspects of producing a new game,[3][4] confirmed by Lorne Lanning.[5] It is not known whether this help continued to the founding of OddMobb.

History

OddMobb was co-founded by Sherry McKenna, Lorne Lanning, Larry Shapiro and Daniel Goldman to develop and launch the Antisocial Network.[6] In October 2009 OddMobb filed seven trademark registrations that covered a wide range of products, including online social networking, 3D virtual environments featuring user-generated content, online publication of various media, board games, action figures and printed materials.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Onset Ventures. ‘Portfolio’.
  2. ↑ Businessweek. ‘OddMobb, Inc.: CEO & Executives’.
  3. ↑ Boyer, Brandon (22 May 2008). ‘Report: Maxis Co-Founder Reveals Oddworld Return’. Gamasutra.
  4. ↑ Bunce-Edwards, William (31 May 2008). ‘Lorne confirms working with Braun’. OddBlog. Oddworld Library.
  5. ↑ Jackson, Mike (27 May 2008). ‘Oddworld creator confirms new game’. ComputerAndVideoGames.com.
  6. ↑ Lanning, Lorne (c. 14 January 2010). ‘The Antisocial Network’. ‘More From Lorne’. ‘Interpol for the Internet’. Play It 4-Ward, Season 1. MSN.
  7. ↑ superannuation (10 October 2009). ‘Occurances of oddness’. superannuation.
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