Thanks DesertBuzzard ;)

That's a pretty sexy type interface! Loving the font.

I feel that you are my brother at arms. I, too, have felt the pain of dynamically resizing text and fitting irregular title lengths to buttons!


And all for naught, because once we deployed the software we realised that there was no reason for them to ever resize the window. Sigh.

Unfortunately, that nice style of lovingly pre-rendered letters had to be replaced with just flat letters : /

All these other people just wont understand the heart ache of making something look much worse so that it functions very slightly better in a very specific situation.

As a standards-compliant and accessibility-aware web developer, doing exactly that is essentially my job.

I actually never knew there was an AS1, it's so unknown I thought they started counting at 2.

Can I just say, that it's wonderful that Glitch has taken out the time to actually approach the fans and see what they want from the games. So often the fans wants and needs are ignored in favour of a developers ego

(a George Lucas quote springs to mind "I don't make films for the fans, I make the films I want to see")

It's really great that JAW have given us the opportunity let our voices be heard from within the franchise now. I love the Oddworld Fan community and I hope this sort of fan/creator relationship continues to remain strong in the future.

Far too kind. Reason franchises like this stay around for companies to pick them up is because of die hard fans who keep the candles burning.

Oh flash, what will become of you!? i hope it doesn't go the way of DIRECTOR.

as for flash 3d, html5 and all this back and forth form apple, its something i'd like to talk to you about but i'll save it for another time. i don't want to get to into it over a forum.


well can you remove this horrible stripy 2 pixel background from these oddworld forums!?
it flash's like a mother when you scroll

I could if I had filesystem access. You'd think Alcar would have given it to me after all of these years but nooooooo. He's too busy smoking or something.

Also, I'm disturbed that your mother is a flasher.

I'm getting the distinct impression that JAW has only one employee, and this is him.

There's a cleaner as well

Really? Because I've seen the state the JAW kitchen gets in.

we have a kitchen?

Yeah, one of the Fisher Price ones.

Approaching the fans can be a double-edged sword. Props to JAW for communicating with the fans, but there’s a point where asking the fans becomes pandering. I hope Oddworld doesn’t end up on the wrong side of that line.

There’s something to be said for sticking to your own creative opinion, by the way. George Lucas is a bad example, but plenty of artists make things for themselves and are outstanding at what they do.

George Lucas is a talentless business man.

You don't like Star Wars then?

I like the original trilogy (comparitively), but Lucas wasn't the reason they were as good as they were. In fact, almost every idea Lucas came up with was drastically changed or flat-out rejected by the producers, studio executives, and even some of the actors. Why? Because they were fucking bad ideas.

If Lucas had his way, Luke Skywalker would have been an old man with a robot head, Han Solo would have been a dinosaur man, and C-3P0 would have been a sleazy, racist huckster.

If you want an idea of what Star Wars would be like if Lucas got his way on every creative decision, watch episodes I-III. They're fucking awful. Basically what I'm saying is, Lucas is credited with creating one of the biggest cultural/cinematic masterpieces in film history... but in reality, he deserves less than half that credit.

Anyway, back on topic...

well he retold the story,also i watched when they filmed the movies,the producers did it all wrong and lucas then hired 2 specialists to re construct everything and add cool sounds,this is special for episode IV.
Well i cant wait to play the hd stranger :P ill have to switch to my computer,my laptop seems to not be compatible with the sd stranger.

Downloading right now...... 55 minutes left

Well if this isn't just the shittiest time for my PS3 to break down.... FUCK!

Oddworld is BACK!
Game looks very good, and plays very well!.