I'm in a typy mood.
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This is interesting. If the muds don't know any better and think they have a decent life, why oh why would they choose to follow Abe and jump trough his bird portal? Even more so after the events at Rupture Farms and the Magog propaganda about Abe being a terrorist. If the muds really think they are doing a good job you'd think they would actually try to stop him from getting to his goals.
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Mudokons are naïve and trusting enough that they'll follow the instructions of someone coming up to them with a smile and a kind tone of voice. They also know in a non-conscious way that there's something wrong with being in RuptureFarms. And maybe there's something utterly irresistible about Bird Portals that makes Mudokons want to hurl themselves through them.
But we did have some fun thinking about exactly that question. We thought about having the Mudokons obey Abe out of fear ("Better do what he says!"), or even changing the gameplay so that you have to
chase them into the portals. But at the end of the day, we're remaking an existing game with limited time and financial freedom to deviate much from the original, so there's none of that in the final scripts.
It's interesting that some story treatments for Abe have RuptureFarms warning Mudokons to ignore and report him because he's carrying a dangerous disease.
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Aren't Meetles the large transport ships Lulu uses to get to Vykers Labs?
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No. Meetles are massive beetles. The clue's in the name. Industrially brutalise them and you get a Mug, the origin of Wil's former username.
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There are multiple forms of Meetles, depending on (if you're Native) what you feed them or (if you're Civilized) how you cut them up. As best I can tell, the blimps evolved out of the idea of stitching and sewing Meetle bits into dirigibles. And hey, maybe that's what the fabrics are actually made of.
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Hey does anyone think the meeches was a scraped idea or was it just for show in AO
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Definitely. There were originally going to be four temples, including the Meech temple.
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Or for that matter, why it is monsaic "lines". The only line in sight is the two-dimensional surface upon which you walk upon in the game.
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Monsaic Lines is an ancient observatory. It's used for measuring the angles and harmonies of celestial bodies. Specifically the name 'Lines' might be taken from the Nazca Lines.
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Other than the brief description given in 'The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants', is there any other information on Ma'Spa?
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Fun fact: Sekto Springs was originally going to have been built on top of Ma'Spa, just as its conceptual predecessor, a Vykkers dam, would have been in Munch's Exoddus.
