Oddbox News

[Nate]

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.

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.

and:

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]

YES YES YES! I LOVE YOU NATE!

[Zukan]

Great to hear some updates from the man himself, thanks Nate.

[Alcar]

This is great news, and not at all surprising that Stranger was more difficult to implement.

Alcar...

[OddChipango]

Oh my gawd? Not only we'll be having better graphics on MO & SW, but Steam achievements as well?

Source?

[Taco]

The source is Lorne Lanning himself. Nate can contact him through seances cuz he's awesome. Also, great news, do like

[Versus]

Wow!!! Great news! After long silence...

[Nate]

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]

Munch's Oddysee has gone gold! That's terrific.
I think we should expect a new update some time in November.

[STM]

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]

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]

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]

Thank you very much for this Nate!

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

[DarkHoodness]

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]

ODDWORLD ACHIEVEMENTS OMG...0_O

YAAAAY ^^ thanks sooo much for the info!

[Sekto Springs]

You know what this means...

OW GMod.

[Crashpunk]

How does that work?

[Varrok]

{trying to find/create words to describe such incredibly good news}

[MeechMunchie]

I wonder if Lorne has read our Achivement thread...

[Jango]

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]

Great news ^^

[DarkHoodness]

How would Oddworld GMod work unless you build custom Oddworld models for use in the Source engine?

[Crescent]

Wonderful news at last from OWI
hope to hear news about the oddworld film.

[shaman]

Great stuff! Thanks ever so much for this Nate, i'm really looking forward to this!

[OANST]

If only they would do this on the 360. I would totally buy them all again.

[used:)]

w00t

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

[Hulaabeo]

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]

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.

You know what this means...

OW GMod.

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

[Xavier]

Most people seem to think that anything available trough steam are automatically source compatible...

Which is not of course

[MeechMunchie]

Yeah, when are we getting Source models for Windosill?