That would definitely be the wrong green.

@JimSterling we were thinking more along the lines of a Slig. Lemme check the contract.

— Oddworld @ GDC (@OddworldInc) March 17, 2016

Newscaster Slig?

Curious about Soulstorm? Have a burning question? We'll have @lorne_lanning answering your comments on Periscope later today - stay tuned.

— Oddworld @ GDC (@OddworldInc) March 17, 2016

Get your questions ready, Lorne is going to do some Q&A.

I wish they would state a time they are doing this

Only question I have is when are we going to see gameplay of the game. I'd guess at E3 but not entirely sure.

Chest scar on its way.

Looks like we'll be able to reveal Abe's chest scar today at 20k - thanks for your support so far, it's humbling! pic.twitter.com/PuOEkinz1z

— Oddworld @ GDC (@OddworldInc) March 17, 2016

They gotta get 6k Followers today to reach that 20k goal.

Maybe they're just aiming for in the ballpark.

600, not 6000 – they’re on 19.4k. For reference, their follower count was just above 15k when SoulStorm was announced.

I notice they deleted the tweet quoting 20k though, maybe they don’t want to be too specific.

e: I am the numbers champion hahahahah vvv

600, not 6000. They're at 19.4k

Edit: Manco was quicker than me

Sorry. I failed maths as a student. You can see why.
In Other News:
http://www.thejimquisition.com/2016/...ddworld-farts/

Listening to it and I can safely say you can skip to 9:50 without missing anything Oddworld related...

EDIT: ...and they changed subject at 11:20. Nothing interesting in there folks.

"Leading the news this week is the announcement that your old pal Jim will be voicing a character in the newly announced Oddworld: Soulstorm!"

OWI please don't do that.

From what I heard I guess he's going to ba a Slig...

Who is Jim Sterling? I mean: has he something special?

Some YouTube dude.

Jim's a gaming critic. He runs a weekly show called The Jimquisition where he talks about recent events and issues within the gaming industry.

He's known for making people aware of shitty Steam Greenlight games and how Konami are one of the worst companies in the industry. He's a very love/hate kinda guy. Kinda like an extreme version of Totalbiscuit. I like him by the way.

And of course, He's a fan of Oddworld. He put New 'N' Tasty in his list of top games of 2014.

He's a fat, intellectually dishonest slob who generally doesn't like to stray from the popular opinion. Also, he has a pretty horrendous voice, so it's really sad how OWI are going to make their game seem more dated by casting him.

I wouldn't say he's known for telling people how Konami are one of the worst companies out there, pretty much everybody has done that.

Lorne is live at Twitch if anyone is interested.

https://www.twitch.tv/kindafunnygames

So apparently SoulStorm is going to use Unity again. fuck sake

They spent so long trying to get the game to work on Unity that it only makes sense (if this is the case I didn't hear him say it).

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if SoulStorm was pretty similar to NnT in terms of gameplay. There's room to improve and finesse. To create puzzles that are a better fit to the sidescrolling model.

What are the problems with Unity, btw? Performance, loading times, amount of graphical detail? Is it too limiting? I actually don't know.

Lorne will be on Periscope soon, so i will ask some questions there.

All of those, you guessed correctly.

and Ragdoll

Thank you for Sterling. What did we learn from the twitch thing (except Unity)?

Absolutely Nothing

playing my tiny violin for everyone crying about a game engine, hope y'all can hear

I knew Manco never cared about Oddworld.

I think we might hear more about SoulStorm at E3.

Probably. That's the best time for it.

I don't think we will hear shit at E3 unless it is mentioned in someone like Sony or Microsoft's press conference. No. The next PAX we may hear more, although the game is still such a way off that we might not hear anything until at least September at the earliest.

I've heard from my mates (Who are at uni) that Unity is out of date in many areas and takes a optimizations for the games to work properly.

All those shitty slender clones have given the engine such a bad name. Unity isn't inherently bad. People always forget it can be used to make some fantastic games such as Superhot and Ori and the Blind Forest.

I thought JAW did do a pretty decent job recreating Oddysee within it. Sure the ragdolls were pointless and it was pretty buggy. But they made a good basis to work on for SoulStorm I think.

Fun Fact: New 'N' Tasty was going to have it's own engine before they scrapped it. The AbeHD Pre-alpha was rendered in that Engine.

They literally started all over again and switched to Unity. I think this was due to a limited budget.

I saw the end of the Lorne interview live, but the replay is up now:
https://www.twitch.tv/kindafunnygames/v/54975566

Here's another recent Lorne Lanning interview OWI mentioned on Twitter about a week ago
http://losttreasures.podbean.com/e/e...lorne-lanning/

It's good to see a new Oddworld project being launched into developement. Keeping in mind how modern marketing tends to work I just hope it isn't going to be one of those 'all the steam went into the whistle; all hype no actual artistic quality' situations.

So Jim sterling is apparently getting sued :/

http://www.destructoid.com/indie-dev...g-349283.phtml

Maybe he can pull off the desperate slig cries in his voice work with more emotion now lol.


Then again I'm not sure if destructoid is credible. I don't visit it often. I heard this news from 4chan.

This lawsuit is a goldmine of humor, I think he’ll be fine.

MOD EDIT: This post got caught up in the thread split. The other half is here.

Here's the link to the 4chan post. It's filthy garbage but there are some good laughs in there.

http://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/331...per#p331147548

On the other hand, confirmation that this is an AE remake and not a new game set in between. That's good to know.

I like Jim Sterling; by and large I agree with his perceptions of the industry and the social themes he discusses, although sometimes I think he talks about non-issues, like polyamory in Fallout 4 being a good thing.

I do not think, however, that he has the voice to pull off VA for an Oddworld title. I'm happy to be proved wrong, but I'm skeptical.

Well maybe that's just me but I tought it was pretty clear from the press release, but I guess you are right.

Anyway Lorne confirmed it again during the KindaFunnyGames show. :)