Oddworld Maniac

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Oddworld Maniac was a primarily French-language Oddworld fansite created by Psykobee with content provided by Goldy, Epeire and Xavier. For most of its life it was either replaced by, or incorporated as a subsite, Oddworld News.

Oddworld Maniac was originally hosted by AltJeux, but switched to Babeloueb.? ‘Oddworld Maniac version 8.0’ opened on 1 May 2001[1] after an appeal by Psykobee for assistance[2] that saw Xavier first join the Oddworld Maniac team. In August 2001 it opened a French-language fan forum,[3] and in October 2001 it was redesigned and hosted an anti-SoBe campaign.[4]

After Babeloueb went down,[5] Oddworld News was launched on 9 November 2001 as a French-language news site to stand in for Oddworld Maniac.[6] A new French-language forum was created in February 2002.[7] Psykobee created a new design for the relaunch of Oddworld Maniac,[8] originally intended for a March 2002 release but delayed because of personal problems Psykobee was experiencing.[5]

Oddworld Maniac relaunched in June 2002 as ‘Oddworld Maniac v.10’, briefly preceded by the launch of its new, searchable image gallery,[9] which opened with 1154 images[10]. With the relaunch, Oddworld News became an English-language subsite of Oddworld Maniac,[11] which published its first news story in English the following month.[12]

In September 2003, Psykobee decided that he no longer had the time to maintain the site, and Oddworld Maniac and Oddworld News ceased to exist.[13] Xavier was already working with Abe Babe and Alcar to recreate his image database as ‘The Art of Oddworld’[13] (later renamed The Oddworld Graphics Gallery), and soon after was made a reporter on Oddworld-Web[14] and OddBlog.[15]

Recently, an archived copy of Oddworld Maniac has appeared online.[16] Although it has been renamed ‘Oddworld Maniac v.11’, the page source identifies it as a copy of ‘v.10’ archived in March 2003 by the Wayback Machine and retrieved in December 2009.

References

  1. ↑ Psykobee (1 May 2001). ‘Oddworld Maniac : le retour’. Oddworld Maniac. Archived by the Wayback Machine (10 June 2001). Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ Psykobee (April 2001?). Oddworld Maniac homepage. Oddworld Maniac. Archived by the Wayback Machine (16 April 2001). Internet Archive.
  3. ↑ Xavier (22 August 2001). ‘FRENCH FORUM’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  4. ↑ Xavier (7 October 2001). ‘new Oddworld Maniac look’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  5. ↑ a b Xavier (25 March 2002). ‘Oddworld Maniac reported’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  6. ↑ Psykobee (9 November 2001). ‘Ouverture d'oddworld news !’. Oddworld News. Archived by the Wayback Machine (11 November 2001). Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ Xavier (19 February 2002). ‘French Oddforums’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  8. ↑ Xavier (22 December 2001). ‘New desing !’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  9. ↑ Xavier (27 June 2002). ‘Oddworld Maniac Pictures!’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  10. ↑ psykobee (27 June 2002). Post 9 in ‘Oddworld Maniac Pictures!’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  11. ↑ Xavier (29 June 2002). ‘Oddworld Maniac / Oddworld News’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  12. ↑ Xavier (3 July 2002). ‘Upload on the official site’. Oddworld News. Oddworld Maniac. Archived by the Wayback Machine (25 September 2002). Internet Archive.
  13. ↑ a b Oddworld Forums members (26 September – 4 October 2003). ‘Oddworld Maniac / Oddworld News => Now officially dead’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.
  14. ↑ Abe Babe (6 October 2003). ‘Welcome Aboard Xavier!’. Oddworld-Web. Archived by the Wayback Machine (18 February 2004). Internet Archive.
  15. ↑ Xavier (6 December 2003). ‘Xav joins OddBlog’. OddBlog. Oddworld Library.
  16. ↑ Oddworld Maniac. Accessed 20 February 2011.
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