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OWI at GDC ’05
Oddworld Inhabitants, Inc is going to expose at GDC 2005. Thanks to atusiya’s father for the head up.
Sources: Atusiya’s father
Lorne speaks against sequelitis
Lorne Lanning has contributed significantly to an article by The Hollywood Reporter on the overwhelming number of video game sequels and liscensed games dominating the charts.
Speaking about their new game’s break from known Oddworld, Lorne says ‘If I were to say to publishers that here’s a new Abe game, this is the new technology it’ll be running, this is why it’ll be great, they’d go for it much more quickly than if I say that you’ve never seen this character but it’s a far superior game. In that case, they’ll be far more skeptical.’
Sources: The Hollywood Reporter
New Stranger screenshots
55 new ScreenShots! Go look them, over at Xbox World. Thanks to Oddipus for the head up. Shots include some bosses, new environements, new enemies, and even a creature from the previous games don’t go look if you don’t want to see spoilers!
Sources: Oddipus
October rounded up
gamesradar.com have replicated EDGE’s recent chat with Lorne Lanning, as transcribed by Oddworld Junkie. The three‐page article is accompanied by new screenshots.
Oddworld Junkie itself has written a round‐up of October’s Oddworld news and attached a character drawing scanned from EDGE magazine.
Sources: Oddworld Junkie
No official site updates, November 2004
Oddworld.com posted a message on their homepage to tell us that there will be no big uploads this month because they are realy busy with the game. They also uploaded the Oddworld Stranger GamePage with some quotes from the press.
Sources: Oddworld.com
GameSpot interviews Lorne and Scot Bayless
GameSpot has made a very intresting interview with Oddworld magnate Lorne Lanning and EA executive producer Scot Bayless. The interview comes with 24 never seen screenshots! (WARNING: Some of them can be concidered as spoilers!)
Sources: GameSpot
EDGE transcribed
Jason (aka Esus) from Oddworld Junkie transcribed the 6 pages feature about Oddworld: Stranger from the December 2004 (№ 143) issue of EDGE. Very well done!
Sources: Oddworld Junkie
No January Stranger
Electronic Arts have uploaded their factsheet for Oddworld Stranger. Those that are registered with the site will be able to download a Microsoft Word file which states the release date of the game to be Spring 2005, and not January as many would hope following the dropping of the PS2 version.
Sources: Electronic Arts
Oddworld on EDGE
EDGE has a 4 page feature about Oddworld: Stranger in the December 2004 (№ 143) issue. Thanx to The Gungrave for the head up on the oddworld temporary forums.
Sources: The Gungrave
Lorne joins EXPOSÉ jury
Lorne Lanning is now officially a member of the Advisory Committee/Jury for the EXPOSÉ 3. This book will be published by Ballistic Publishing, they are the ones who also publish The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years 1994–2004.
XBM’s Lorne interview transcribed
Jason (aka Esus) from Oddworld Junkie posted a transcript of the interview with Lorne Lanning from the XBM. The preview was already online here. Well done Jason, keep on transcripting intresting articles!
Sources: Oddworld Junkie
Charles Bloom at Game Tech
Charles Bloom (lead programmer at Oddworld Inhabitants) is going to do a talk at the ‘Game Tech’ Seminar on December 2. According to him:
It’ll be about how we made the engine and game behind “Stranger”, with emphasis on specific things that I think we’ve done well in code that people can benefit from.
Sources: Charles Bloom
OddNet down
Alcar is struggling to get Oddworld Forums, Oddworld Universe and Oddworld‐Web back online (that why the 3 links are broken). But he managed to get the temporary forums back online! So if you had something to say and couldn’t, you can do it now!
Sources: Alcar
XBM previews Stranger
Oddworld.com’s Covers page has been updated with a new cover. Issue № 38 of the XBM features an Oddworld: Stranger related cover and a nice preview.
Sources: Oddworld.com
gamesTM scans posted
Jason (aka Esus) from Oddworld Junkie points out that Oddworld.com’s covers page has been updated with a new cover of the German Xbox Zone Magazine. More info about this issue can be found here along with a bigger version of the cover.
Jason also points out that the scans of the gamesTM Oddworld Stranger preview are now up! (1, 2 and 3)
Sources: Oddworld Junkie
gamesTM transcribed
Jason (aka Esus) from Oddworld Junkie posted a transcript of this month’s edition of UK’s gamesTM magazine. A job well done (even if there are some problems with the scans right now)!
Sources: Oddworld Junkie
Oddipus gets tattoo
Our interview with Oddworld’s Creative Services Mgr. has been mentioned in Oddworld.com’s press section! If you would like to read other interviews about The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants, simpley go here.
More info and a larger cover picture of the Game Republic magazine featuring an article and a cover about Oddworld: Stranger are available here.
By the way, Oddipus finally has his Oddworld‐related tatoo, take a look here.
OddBlog interviews Cathy Johnson
Finally it’s here: an Exclusive Interview with Oddworld Creative Services Manager, Cathy Johnson!
Like Max said:
We felt compelled to explore the possibilities of a similar Q&A with the person named by Mr Snoswell as first having the idea for an Oddworld book, and then going on to be the ‘biggest contributor’ of material for the now pre‐orderable anniversary book The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants: The First Ten Years 1994–2004; and herewith we are proud to share the result!
Sorry to all for the delay, and the broken pictures, we (Max and me) have been very busy lately.
TVG talks to Lorne and Erik Yeo
Oddguy of Oddworld‐Web found a very intresting interview with Lorne Lanning about Oddworld: Stranger, over at Total Videogames.
Sources: Oddworld‐Web