Abe HD
 

Tease.

http://i.imgur.com/08jcC.png

But seriously, wonder what could be on there? Bottom left looks like some sketches?

Below that reads: Story S.... ......

I tried to trace the most legible stuff but ended up getting nothing. XD

All I can see is Story Stone and Abe HD.

I see “Story Stone Raymond”. Maybe referencing a design for a Story Stone made by Swanland? Is he still actively involved with OWI?

And below that, “in-game [unknown]”

I won't be satisfied until

A: We can see the unedited photograph

OR

B: Somebody spots something on there about Quiksave.

It's okay Wil, the unedited version that is safe with me.

So... you just went to some sort of school and wrote "Abe HD" on the top of a whiteboard in classroom, do I understand this correctly?

Your whiteboard pens really suck. It's so blury, I can't read any of it. Instead of making Abe HD, invest into some new ones.

:tard:

That was before Wil got there, of course.

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4343/ojipop.png

This was after.

Tommorow I might post some select few individual words from the board, with zero additional context. Because I love you guys and I want to share with you as much as I can without getting into trouble.

Also trolololololololol

Don't be silly, I never leave daft, rude or nonsensical messages on the office whiteboards. And I never pose the action figures in vulgar positions. And I never pee in Stewart's seat.

"Story Store ____ with in-game visual ____" then something else.. (edit: could be stary skies) (edit: no it couldnt coz that isn't how you spell 'starry' xP..)

uncover the middle line,everything under ABE HD XD

Is the word down-and-to-the-left-of the title Bats?

These are probably just Wil's pot-plant watering instructions that he has blurred out so he can pretend to be informed.


I thought that said Story Stone Playboy.

What's the deal with the board with PS3 BIG in red on the board to the right of the main one??

When you show us some words and we... don't like them..., will you hide them again and pick some another for us?

No, he took a picture of the Abe HD whiteboard and blurred almost everything so we couldn't read it.

http://i39.tinypic.com/28uocw3.jpg

Oh what's this? I don't even... :tard:

I assume that was for Strangers Wrath.

The board on the floor is nothing to do with Abe HD. I'm not sure it's even to do with Stranger. It's behind a not-yet-put-together desk that's been there probably since February.

OK, some contextless words from the board, carefully selected for tone and SPOILERS.

• Extra
• Bats
• Better
• Skeeter
• New
• Boulders
• Different
• Gratuity
• Euphoria

Now take another word from each sentence but don't tell us to which of the former words they pair with.

The bats could work if they didnt leave the screen.

Oooooh Skeeter, that's a good one.

I also promote Xavier's original Skeeter description:

Euphoria is what captured my attention, could that be a game changing mechanic?

Fuck yeah, Skeeters.

Euphoria is a game engine. I'm assuming they are considering using it or parts of it for Abe HD. It can do pretty neat things.



Gratuity as I know it is a form of tipping and in games it's a term used to reward people with certain items, often for participating in Beta's or other tests. Maybe they plan on some ingame reward for those playtesting or something?

I Didn't know it was a game engine, that looks really cool and could work well with Abe given the sort of game it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfEaKEr5ecw
Can't wait to do the same in Abe HD

I don't think you will be able to. But it should deversify character movements a LOT.

I urgently need to point out that we are not using the Euphoria engine.

Euphoria game engine is used in GTA IV

Could Euphoria have something to do with the emotions of Mudokons?

Euphoria is like when the mudokons have had a dose of that laughing gas, so yeah.. or JAW could have been making reference to the Euphoria engine, although theyre not using it.

Perhaps they're branching ideas that are similar to what the Euphoria engine offers? I love this!

Or JAW is just really excited when they're thinking about Abe HD

They must be using Euphoria Engine, Max's just lying to us.

Skeeter and bats are what got my attention. Because mosquitoes come from forests and hot, dank, sweaty places. Necrum anyone?

This is Nod all over again. Wil says one thing, the wild interpretations become gospel and not even his clarification can dissuade them.

It'll be on Oddworld's Wikipedia page and reported on several gaming news websites by this time tomorrow evening.