Next Oddworld game news...

[Strike Witch]

I was on Kotaku,

You were not.

Anyway, I really wouldn't mind another Oddworld game, or at least some sort of ambient OW music, at the very least.

[Nate]

Oh, and what the hell is pound dogs? Seriously.

Read this article.

[Xavier]

He's quoting the same student newspaper as everyone else (the one Xav posted in his initial thread).

Yeah, I've seen like 20 articles about it on the net and they all quote the student newspaper (very often without giving it any credit at all).

And when I finally spot something that was not simply cut and paste, it's almost always a stupid assumption.

No one said it was going to be released on 360 or any of the next gen consoles, and yet you can see it on many videogames sites.

[Oddsville]

Yes, basically all we have is that its a game worked on by Jeff Braun and that we'll have to wait a long time to get our hands on it. Basically everything else you read is just shots in the dark by all the journalists/bloggers; so don't ready too much into em. I'll wait untill they start listing thier sources of all the new information before I start believing it.

[Munch's Master]

I'm sorry, but after 3 years of being told there's a new game on the way, or an Oddworld movie, and it then transpiring that there isn't, I'm skeptical. I'll believe this when I see it, and if it is a new Oddworld game I'll be over the moon. If it isn't, I won't be disappointed, as I'm not expecting it to get done in the next decade anyway.

3 years we've been waiting for a new game, and nothing. I don't really count Stranger's Wrath anyway, it's a FPS set in the Oddworld universe, not part of the Quintology.
So it's technically been 3 years since the last game, but to me it's been 6-7. I'm still waiting for a follow up to Munch's Odysee.

And I think if they are trying to do Oddworld, citizen Siege, Fangus and this pound dogs thing, they'll never get them done. You can't tackle everything at once, you have to go 1 at a time. If it means getting the next Oddworld game in 3 years rather than 5, I'd say work on Siege or Fangus or whatever first.

[MeechShrykull1029]

Oddworld, Citizen Siege, Fangus, and Pound Dog might be the 4 projects!

[Wil]

I'm sorry, but after 3 years of being told there's a new game on the way, or an Oddworld movie, and it then transpiring that there isn't, I'm skeptical.

There has been no announcement of an Oddworld game or movie since The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot, and since OWI revealed it was stopping game development within about a week, it was obvious that wasn’t still in the pipeline. Lorne and others have mentioned, hinted, and suggested that there are plans to do many things, and that they are actively designing various things, but the only announcement has been about the Citizen Siege film.

And I think if they are trying to do Oddworld, citizen Siege, Fangus and this pound dogs thing, they'll never get them done. You can't tackle everything at once, you have to go 1 at a time. If it means getting the next Oddworld game in 3 years rather than 5, I'd say work on Siege or Fangus or whatever first.

All these things take time. If they are done one at a time, Lorne will be sitting around like a SpooceShrub waiting for the next thing to do. They are taking their time on everything to achieve the highest quality, and this allows them to work on multiple things at once. This has always been an ambition of Lorne’s, who envies film directors who can bring out dozens of films a year. It will take time to get this business model underway.

[Xavier]

Oddworld, Citizen Siege, Fangus, and Pound Dog might be the 4 projects!

Things we actually know:

- They are working on 4 projects
- The Citizen Siege movie has been announced.
- Wage Wars, a game related to Citizen Siege has been announced.
- We know they are working on a tv series.
- Jeff Braun announced he was involved in a new game with Oddworld Inhabitants
- they didn't officially announced the Oddworld (abe) movie, but we know for sure it will come sometime after Citizen Siege, some concept art specifically for the movie has already been done.


Pound dog and Fangus, are probably not in the pipeline at the moment

[MeechShrykull1029]

The TV show might be about Fangus or Pound Dog. This is my theory.

[Nate]

3 years we've been waiting for a new game, and nothing.

As a further clarification; No, we haven't. We've been waiting three years for a movie and, as Lorne points out, animated films in Hollywood tend to be in planning for 4-8 years before any production starts.

[Munch's Master]

^ Alright, fair enough then, I got my recollections muddled up. But still, I'm just getting so despondent with waiting so long. We get the odd bit of news here and there, but nothing concrete. We're told there's a new game being worked on and it's probably part of the Oddworld series, but no more.

I just want something concrete- a screenshot, a trailer, more detailed news. It's almost feeling like Duke Nukem Forever, although to be fair to Lorne I don't think it'll ever get to that bad a stage.

I do hope the games and films for all the projects come out, but right now I'm just still not sure. Give me something concrete and I'll start believing.

[Wil]

The trouble with getting something concrete (apart from it breaking all the NDAs Lorne has to be bound to) is that it then gets people far too excited far too early on. Take Hand of Odd. Take Fangus. There are still people who still expect these to be the next things they see!

[Xavier]

the most concrete stuff we have at the moment:

concept art for the Abe Movie:
http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...php?menu=CAOM1
Can be discussed here and .

concept art for the Citizen Siege Movie:
http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...php?menu=CACS1
Can be discussed here.

[Amakir]

Well didint Lorne say that there was gonna make the rest chapters of the Quintology as movies?

[Fuzzle Guy]

I hope this new game in an Abe game, with the same quality of gameplay and graphics as Stranger, the humour of AE and the dark-ness (if there is such a word) of AO. They should aim to make this the best Oddworld game yet.
I think a good producer like Braun could do the Oddworld series justice, bring it out of the dark-ness (if there is such a word) that so many people have been seeing it in.

Brilliant find Xavier!
/reps

[Mac Sirloin]

I saw this twenty minutes after this came out.

I win.

[~^_^~]

Very intresting Xavier. Good find.

~^_^~

[Oddsville]

Just so everyone knows, this isn't really big news and its kinda something we already knew but Lorne just confirmed that Jeff Braun was making a new OWI game. He still didn't say much else other than the confrimation...

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/876/876641p1.html

[Xavier]

I just saw this seconds ago

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...oddworld-title

well done Oddsville

[Munch's Master]

OK, now I'm feeling optimism again. I know it's nothing much and is probably years off, but the fact that the game is in progress is enough for me to start believing.

[Nate]

"I can confirm that we're working with Jeff on Oddworld stuff, but that's all I can say at this time," offered Lanning.

Still not clear whether we're talking Oddworld universe or Oddworld Inhabitants.

[Xavier]

Lorne is confirming it all over the place:
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...89673&skip=yes

nate, I huess it's too soon to tell us

[Sanssouci]

Things we actually know:

- They are working on 4 projects
- The Citizen Siege movie has been announced.
- Wage Wars, a game related to Citizen Siege has been announced.
- We know they are working on a tv series.
- Jeff Braun announced he was involved in a new game with Oddworld Inhabitants
- they didn't officially announced the Oddworld (abe) movie, but we know for sure it will come sometime after Citizen Siege, some concept art specifically for the movie has already been done.

Hurray for this Xavier. It should be quoted in every thread from now on where half the participants are mysteriously assuming Hand of Odd is coming out in 2009.

[Jordan]

Bloody awesome, this is something to look forward to. Thanks for caring Xav.

[Crashpunk]

Has anybody notist anything about 2008 first FUTURAMA comes back and now Oddworld is coming back, its like thay can read our minds and finding out what we want... it sounds like Abe AHHH!

anyways after the movie and game I hope they make a game with abe, sligs, and all the rest from oddysee and exoddus because they were the charaters that made me love Oddworld but anyways YAY ODDWORLD IS COMING BACK

[Fuzzle Guy]

Has anybody notist anything about 2008 first FUTURAMA comes back and now Oddworld is coming back, its like thay can read our minds and finding out what we want... it sounds like Abe AHHH!

Futurama came back in 2007. But you can use Indiana Jones or Sex and the City as a replacement example

I think it will be an Abe game. It would be the best way to keep the level of interest in Oddworld up. by the time the Abe movie comes out, the average gamer will have forgotten who Abe is. Releasing another Abe game would be a wise move.

[kin37ik]

this is excellent news, definitely going to get it when it comes out

[arkaznor]

I doubt it will be another Abe game. OWI is exploring new ideas and themes, looking in vast, and making in focused.

Now, the first games were great, but that doesn't mean that they will stay the best; and we will never find out if we stay with the same old thing, over and over again.

Another Abe game/ movie will probably come out, just not as the next thing.

[GlukkonGluk]

Time to repeat what i've said countless times: DON'T get excited about anything to do with OWI until there is concrete evidence that it is happeing. And i mean CONCRETE. It's not there fault, but if I was a Mudokon, i would have to use my fingers and toes to count the amount of games they've had to cancel. And then theres MO, which DID come out in the end, butit ended up terrible in the end. It's a shame that it had to happen to OWI, since they're surely one of the greatest game related companies.

[Bullet Magnet]

Isn't that true of all games, film medical etc rumours? Be sceptical?