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I've often wondered how a real life Oddworld Encyclopaedia might be published, but I've only ever come to the conclusion that it would have to come in the form of richly-illustrated in-universe material. What that might cause it to lack in objective accuracy and comprehensiveness would be made up for by the deep insight into how different races and classes try to influence and understand their world and each other. Vykkers' zoographies and lab notes, industrial reports and memos, taskmaster and slave handbooks, rebel propaganda, academic rubbings of native carvings, travellers' storystones. I'm salivating.
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I'm incredibly glad to have sparked your imagination Max.
They are indeed some impressive suggestions.
I thought I'd be shot down for suggesting such a thing, but we've amassed a collection of decent proposals.
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I think graphic novels might work. But I'm not sure I wan the story in book format. As much as I want to know the oddworld story it has always been associated with stunning art and beautiful pictures. I'm not sure I want the story without the art.
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I'm with you on the graphic novel side of things. The story without the art would be less appealing; in the Tank Girl series, after a while of publishing comics and graphic novels eventually the franchise led to a few novel publications. But I suppose that is different on the grounds Tank Girl always was a comic franchise, and the novels were the groundbreaking move, opposed to this being the videogames and then graphic novels
and then novels.
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Books are great especially if it were issues of graphic novels or comics of such. Plus considering the medium, all you need is a writer and editor, Illustrators, Pencilers, inkers, and colorists to produce the art, and a book publishing company. With Lorne and his track record that should be easy or he can just publish them himself.
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Lorne's 'track record' for anything to be produced annually is, to be honest, somewhat of a joke. It takes Joss Whedon half a bloody decade to get a few Firefly/Serenity graphic novels published, and they weren't all that innovative. But Lorne's far less predictable than Whedon.. so you never know.