History of Oddworld Inhabitants
 

There's an awesome article about the history of Oddworld Inhabitants over on the website of NewTimes, a San Luis Obispo-based magazine.

http://www.newtimesslo.com/cover/705...d-inhabitants/

Nothing is especially new to someone who's been paying attention and piecing stuff together for many years, but it's still a great read with interesting insights and titbits.

That was a moving article. Thanks for posting!

Interesting! Very interesting.

This a great article, The story about the Abe's Oddysee E3 screening back in 1997 how it started off really bad then suddendly became really popular made my day :)

Ok guys what the FLIP is Squeak’s Oddysee?

wilL you need to show us pictures and things or were going to occupy oddworld forums!


or should that be boycott?

I've added it to my reading list and will commence when I get home from work.

The rumoured name for the next Oddysee in the Quintology. Nod's Oddysee is another one.

If i'm wrong, Wil can correct me.

Exactly, except that it's not a rumour, it's been flatly stated by Lorne in half his interviews since 1997. He names Squeek (yes, double 'e') in the official Abe's Oddysee walkthrough - back when walkthroughs were books, of course.

And also Nod has been disproven as the name of the fourth Quintology hero.

You bad fan.

No pictures of Squeek were ever produced/released to the best of my knowledge. I don't even think that one made the drawing board before they went under.

Unless you count the little drawing Max made in the margin of my notebook based on Lorne's description :p I count that.

I'm not a bad fan! :crying:

That was an interesting read - OWI's had a long rough ride, but I still find it a shame that they didn't do things differently (like Valve did, for example). I'm glad alternative games like theirs are more in favour now.

I like to think what would OWI be like if they didn't have that rough ride? I can imagen all the games we know and were cancled were classic games.

*sigh*

What was that description?

Says the guy that started the rumour and was adamant it was true for so long.

It's unlikely that I'm ever going to return to SLO, but it's still sad that they're going to be taking down the ODDWORLD INHABITANTS signage from the doors. I wonder why they kept it up there for so long.

I was never aware of the how the game was received at E3.

Well, I was aware that it got a good reception but just didn't know that the game didn't gather much of an audience at first so I learned something :)



There's your answer, nobody else has moved in there yet.

Not quite – if it’s being relisted it sounds like the owner hasn’t rented the space out since OWI left.

A very interesting article, if a little saddening. The part about having to close their doors and let the whole team go really hammers home just what the gaming industry lost. I hope Oddworld’s future brings back some of that heritage.

Squeek is a slug-like creature, similar to a Slurg. Very small. The game would have essentially been Oddworld from a bug's point of view.

I always assumed that was a fan theory, rather than an official description. The only thing I know for sure about Squeek is that it's meant to explore the topic of symbiosis.

Pretty much what Oddhunter said; I had previously assumed that OWI owned their offices and that they kept them for some reason (possibly in the hope that they'd be able to set up shop again some time in the future?), but that article makes it clear that they were rented and implies that they haven't been occupied in the last seven years. And I wonder why. Perhaps OWI signed a ten year lease in 2002?

I might have misunderstood Wil when we discussed it.

So what exactly are Lorne and Sherry doing at the moment? That article makes out as if they have abandoned Oddworld, to work on Xmobb I suppose.

I didn't start the rumour, I was merely the first person to propagate it.

I might have been bullshitting.

They haven't abandoned Oddworld - Stewart Gilray stays in touch with them - but they are focusing on Xmobb right now. They'll be paying Oddworld more attention once JAW starts working on more projects from the ground up.

I have no intrest in Xmobb to be honest. Also the Bad Ending to Squeek's Oddysee would be Abe stepping on you. :tard:

Damn it Crash, now Lorne's gotta silence you.

Xmobb is still finding itself, but I think it has the potential to be a very unique networking tool if they continue to work the kinks out. I remember saying to Max that it would be much more accessible as a browser-based application as opposed to a program you had to actually install. Sure enough, a few months later it became browser-based as well. So good on them.

Well if Xmobb becomes really good (It's likey because this is Lorne's work) I'll use it.

I'm not sure why the browser based version has to be 2D.

I'm a little sceptical about Xmobb to be honest - Especially since both Sony and Google have something similar already. But you never know, it might catch on.

is there any pictures of the offices with said logo?

and is there no way somebody can contact the owners and get it?

.....Max, we need to talk buddy..