1. Lorne closed Oddworld Inhabitants and got rid of all the game designers, animators, programmers, etc, so he’s stopped
internal game development. But Lorne still has faith in video games as a medium to tell great stories, and will be outsourcing all future game development.
4. Lorne criticized EA for virtually abandoning advertising
Stranger’s Wrath when they decided to give up on the PS2 port. He understood their reasoning.
4. The Citizen Siege universe is Earth in the near future. Lorne has looked at current political trends of fear mongering to scare people into basically giving away their civil liberties in return for protection from some fictitious threat (e.g. WMDs). Democracy has been replaced by global corporatism (U.S. states can become privatized) and martial law.
5.
Wage Wars is an online game to be released before
Citizen Siege the film to support a synergy between the two stories that’s yet to be revealed. Lorne was waiting to find a distributor for the film before seeking a publisher for the game to avoid having to relinquish creative control of the film to the game publisher. We haven’t been informed that he’s found either.
Best of luck with your article—I look forward to reading it once it’s done. If you want any further info, just ask.
