I love Oddworld artwork! Xav, do you know if OWI is coming out with an "art of" book? I think they should!

yeah... there were rumors a book called "the art of Oddworld" could be released, but we don't know when yet

That would be awesome! I'd buy it!

I am using your character Grig, i promised to use all of them...

Thanx! Do ya like them? Even Stan the Worryfish?

Some where long ago, I heard that Oddworld's wells were pressurized and a natural part of Oddworld. So my theory was that for some reason (prehaps due to Oddworld's massive size) the there are creators, creveces, whatever in the planet and the Mudokon's took advantage of this by using animal skins to guid the direction you travel and to maximise the pressure by containing it.

ok everyone shut yer trap while i whale out a bugger of a question.....

probably no one will know this.....

PA's interesting topic of launching muds in space, now, that day in 1969, the AMERICAN flag was deposited.

If the inhabitants got on, WHAT!? flag would they put on

What i'm tryin to say is....the Mudos flag...the description..?

probably the Oddworld logo
http://www.oddworld.com/images/OWdesignLogo.jpg

Are you attempting to ask if Mudos has a flag? If you are, then we don't know.

whats under a slig's mask?

why do glukkons' eyes glow?

Edited by Alcar: Don't double post!!!

look at this and will have a pretty good idea
http://www.oddworld-fr.com/banque_images/1083.jpg


uh... I don't know that, sorry
perhaps Max will know

This is a pretty dumb question, but are there any native glukkons anywhere?

Native Glukkons? Unlikely, in my opinion, but you never know. It would be interesting to find out at which point they stopped progressing with the rest of their race. If it was before the Age of Alchemy, then they would be Glukkons in their original appearance, which would be very interesting to see.

As for why the Glukkons eyes glow, it's because over thousands of years they have developed an eyesight which is accustomed only to the darkness (although some Glukkons appear to be able to withstand direct sunlight, such as Director Phleg). Exactly why this should actually cause their eyes to give off light I'm not certain. It's definitely more than just light reflecting off their retinas. My guess is that Glukkons (and Rats) have developed the vision-equivalent of radar - their eyes actually give off light, which is then reflected off their environment, allowing them to see. Okay, it doesn't seem likely that that amount of light could illuminate their world enough to actually see, but maybe they actually use some form of electromagnetic radiation that is much more intense, and that the light we see is just the lower or upper part of the spectrum of their adapted sense. Of course that's all speculation.

*takes notes for the soon-to-be-arriving update of his FAQ*

How do slig pants work?

they run on gas and most likely hydraulics...i dont know exactly.
Max!

actually I meant How do sligs control them. If you look at the ending movie of MO you'll see that it has no controls.
:fuzconf:
This is a stupid question, but why are glukkons' heads so big?

Unknown. In Abe's Oddysee Sligs had tubules connecting their masks and their pants, indicating the masks read the thoughts of the Sligs and sent signals telling the legs to move correspondingly. This is quite impressive, because the Sligs would have to learn to control two limbs they simply didn't evolve with.

The tubules were removed in Abe's Exoddus, presumably as part of the same plan to make Sligs more expressionable. It could be that Sligs control their pants by moving their tails - either this directly controls some mechanical device, or the movement is read by a computer in the pants which controls the legs accordingly.

You're right, it is silly. Glukkons just developed like that, through evolution and the disaster they brought upon themselves in the Age of Alchemy.

Alls worm that ends well.
 

I've been gone a week in Hawaii (just in case anyone was wondering) but here's my theory on the "wells".

I think they are the remains of large wormlike creatures, similar to some underwater species on Earth. Perhaps the vacuum has something to do with their method of obtaining and digesting food and when the animal dies, all it leaves is the tube-like shell and the vacuum.

Why is it that in AO Abe has 4 fingers when in AE he has 3?

read the official FAQ
http://www.oddworld.com/ow_ask.html

ok i got two questions, first one i already know the answer i just wanted to get some creative opinions...

1. why do slig's wear masks? judging by the maskless bigbro sketch, they're not all that hideos. sure, they're ugly, but hell i've seen worse at my junior prom. did glukkons force on the masks? do glukkon know how ugly they are? they should wear the masks!

2. Skrikits, are they spiritual in anyway? are they worshipped at all? or are they just some pesky insect that keep glukkons awake at night?

1) glukkons don't find themself ugly (do you think you are ugly?), but they find the sligs hideous

2) I think it's just an insect... and I don't think insects are sacred

no, but i can't answer for other ppl, ask my gf

1) Xavier got it right, but to elaborate needlessly, you have to remember that the species on Oddworld all have different values from us, just as peoples from other places and times on Earth have/had/will have different values. Glukkons don't find all of themselves ugly, but they have their own views. Lulu is ugly in the eyes of the Glukkons, and Molluck is handsome as hell. Personally I think he's ultra sexy, but that's just me. :P

Other Industrial races have different values, too, although they seem to be much more similar to our own, since they generally view Glukkons as being ugly, and the Vykkers as being even uglier.

There are alternative answers to the question, though.
1. Sligs, being swamp-dwellers biologically speaking, need the masks to breath.
2. Sligs have poor vision, and their masks help.
3. It is via the masks that Sligs control their pants. See those tubules that connect the masks and the pants in AO? Maybe they were merely replaced with something like radio signals.

2) I did have an idea that Skrikits were to Gabbits as Birds are to Mudokons, but I don't hold much faith in that.

Why do vykkers have stitches on their legs?

Looking at it, most people seem to agree that Vykkers cut off their own feet, although Alf tells us this is not the case. Whatever it is, it is widely theorised that since Vykkers were originally tree-dwelling creatures, their natural 'feet' are inept at traversing flat surfaces such as factory and installation floors.

Wow, a goldmine of Frequently Asked Questions, here.

is there any theory behind this question:

In AO, If the glukkons wanted to turn the muds, their slaves, into food, who were they expecting to be the slaves?

I'm sure there are enough mudokons to have slaves and food muds to spare.

Plus they could always put the sligs to work, or employ some interns.


BTW, nobody care to share what they think of my well theory? Even I like my pats on the back... "That's interesting Mr. Khanzumer" "I liked Max's better but you have a creative idea Mr. Khanzumer"

Your most likely correct Max; I heard in an interview long ago that, like Abe turning into birds when he dies, Much was originally going to turn in to some type of insect (most likely Skrikits) when he died.

As for the Slave question, well basicly with Sam in their possession they could use up as many Slave as they wanted, All they had to do was make Sam work harder..

that's what I tought too

anyway oddville's you are right... the industrials won't have any scrupule about making Sam work harder

Umm, does anyone know what those little pouches are on the back of the Mudokons loincloths?

they may have some spiritual meaning like the cloths themselves but theyre probly just pockets

I thought OWI's said that the Interns were meant to be like that, but the Vykkers did cut off their own feet...

Well done Mr Khanzumer!! Your knowledge is thooperlicious...

:fuzconf: Well, Acording to Alf, muds don't need loinclothes, they don't have reproductive organs,so it's just for style baby! As for the pouches, everybody needs places to put stuff. Where do you think Abe puts all those rocks, bones and grenades? Also I'm sure the pouch is for style as well! Kinda like when you see those girls with tight shirts that have tiny pockets in the front. Do they use them? No! All for the style. :D

I take Alf's answer of style to be one of his more ridiculous ones, so you can rest assured I put as much faith in that as in the questions where he talks about female Mudokons. Mudokons, I'm sure, have decency values, and so they feel the need to cover up the same bits of themselves that we need to cover up.

Yeah, Khanz, nice idea. Reminds me of coral polyps and sandworms from Dune.

my gf used to wear those, now she only wears tanktops..
anyway, the pocket situation, well you know that LED screen that aid something about smuggling bones in your pants...well pockets would fit that.

I always thought that the little pouch on the back was where the loin cloth was tied, but I could be wrong?

We could all be wrong. :P So much speculation. But that makes sense - the knot that Mudokons use to tie their loinclothes conveniently forms a pocket. It'd be interested to know how to do that.

yes, hold your pants up and get something out of it, how convenient oh i also have a question

glukkons live like 60-65 years if my memory serves correst. how long would a glukkon live if he didn't smoke:dodgy: i know itt'll never happen but still:D

They'd probably live the same amount of years, whenever their lungs go bad they just get new ones anyways..