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Nate 03-16-2010 04:29 PM
Oddbox News
 
Via certain secret sources and with the assistance of a sect of devout, mute monks, I have managed to get some information about Oddbox from Lorne himself.

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Here's the insider scoop. It's taken us longer than expected to bring these to market. Basically just production snafus.

We have Munch near finished (in final gold now) and we're still working on Stranger. Stranger has proven much more difficult as we really pushed some rendering aspects on the Xbox and bringing that over to DirectX is a bit of voodoo. So it's taken far longer than expected to convert Stranger than we had initially anticipated. We're still aiming for 2010 but do not have a set month for release.

We are working diligently on getting this done and making sure its all quality conversions. 3 down. 1 to go. Must happen in 2010.
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We're also building in the Steam Achievements for the games (all four of them), so Steam players will get the added advantage as it relates to their larger network achievements. We wish we had done this upon initial release of the Abe games on Steam, but will fix going forward.

enchilado 03-16-2010 04:39 PM
YES YES YES! I LOVE YOU NATE!

Zukan 03-16-2010 05:14 PM
Great to hear some updates from the man himself, thanks Nate.

Alcar 03-16-2010 06:51 PM
This is great news, and not at all surprising that Stranger was more difficult to implement.

Alcar...

OddChipango 03-16-2010 11:17 PM
Oh my gawd? Not only we'll be having better graphics on MO & SW, but Steam achievements as well?

Source?

Taco 03-16-2010 11:37 PM
The source is Lorne Lanning himself. Nate can contact him through seances cuz he's awesome. Also, great news, do like

Versus 03-17-2010 12:45 AM
Wow!!! Great news! After long silence...

Nate 03-17-2010 04:12 AM
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Oh my gawd? Not only we'll be having better graphics on MO & SW, but Steam achievements as well?
He didn't say anything about better graphics. Just about getting the existing graphics to work.


I hope they fix the shadow bug in Stranger. And the one where bushes suddenly appear out of nowhere in the distance.

squeak117 03-17-2010 04:31 AM
Munch's Oddysee has gone gold! That's terrific.
I think we should expect a new update some time in November.

STM 03-17-2010 08:33 AM
Nate I'd plus rep you but i'm partially paralzyed for the next seven minutes and can only type with my brain!

Lord Stanley 03-17-2010 08:43 AM
I hope it comes out in April. Or even still March...at least we know they're still working on it, and have made a lot of progress. I don't know whether to be disappointed it's not done already, or happy it's still coming out.

Zukan 03-17-2010 09:19 AM
Has he ever mentioned who's behind the porting? I'm interested in knowing whether they actually have a team of their own working on games atm, or if all their projects are outsourced to third party devs.

Xavier 03-17-2010 09:48 AM
Thank you very much for this Nate!

The port is done by a third party, we don't know who it is yet.

DarkHoodness 03-17-2010 10:09 AM
Hooray - You know, this the main reason why I've been checking OWF for the past couple of days despite not checking this place since the end of last year - I'd hoped to of found news about this. :P Timing is everything, huh?

Awesome news, thanks for sharing it with us - Glad OWI aren't being silent. :)

(And BTW - The Acheivements thing may make it worth me buying AO and AE on Steam even though I already own old PC CD ROM copies of both)

Crashpunk 03-17-2010 10:23 AM
ODDWORLD ACHIEVEMENTS OMG...0_O

YAAAAY ^^ thanks sooo much for the info!

Sekto Springs 03-17-2010 10:30 AM
You know what this means...

OW GMod.

Crashpunk 03-17-2010 10:33 AM
How does that work?

Varrok 03-17-2010 11:19 AM
{trying to find/create words to describe such incredibly good news}

MeechMunchie 03-17-2010 12:02 PM
I wonder if Lorne has read our Achivement thread...

Jango 03-17-2010 12:10 PM
Yey! Oddworld Achievements! That would give me a reason to complete AO and AE again and buy them through Steam! :)

Oddworld GMod? That would be amazing! The current GMod is incredible as it is, with Oddworld stuff it would be even better! :) :)

Brun Croes 03-17-2010 01:59 PM
Great news ^^

DarkHoodness 03-17-2010 02:21 PM
How would Oddworld GMod work unless you build custom Oddworld models for use in the Source engine?

Crescent 03-17-2010 02:26 PM
Wonderful news at last from OWI
hope to hear news about the oddworld film. :catslug:

shaman 03-17-2010 02:26 PM
Great stuff! Thanks ever so much for this Nate, i'm really looking forward to this!

OANST 03-17-2010 02:40 PM
If only they would do this on the 360. I would totally buy them all again.

used:) 03-17-2010 04:32 PM
w00t

I'm glad to hear this. Can't wait for it! Thanks for passing this on.

Hulaabeo 03-17-2010 07:58 PM
When I heard about Oddbox, I thought of Gmod aswell. Is it possible to copy or rip the models from SW and MO if they were released for the PC? Or possibly the AIs themselves?

Nate 03-17-2010 11:10 PM
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I hope it comes out in April. Or even still March...at least we know they're still working on it, and have made a lot of progress. I don't know whether to be disappointed it's not done already, or happy it's still coming out.
Don't get your hopes up. There's still lots of work to be done.
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You know what this means...

OW GMod.
I don't follow your logic. He doesn't say they're using Source.

Xavier 03-17-2010 11:49 PM
Most people seem to think that anything available trough steam are automatically source compatible...

Which is not of course

MeechMunchie 03-18-2010 12:08 AM
Yeah, when are we getting Source models for Windosill?


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