Next Oddworld game news...

**Xavier** · #1 05-22-2008, 11:18 AM

... Maxis co-founder and games industry veteran Jeff Braun is involved!

http://www.cordweekly.com/cordweekly...4&news_id=1747

You might have heard of Maxis, look where this takes you: http://www.maxis.com

abe is now! · #2 05-22-2008, 11:23 AM

I hope they will product a good game, I really trust them!!!

Wings of Fire · #3 05-22-2008, 11:28 AM

This is why I'm trying to keep you on MSI

Very interesting news Xav

awesome find.

Hulaabeo · #4 05-22-2008, 11:41 AM

OMG another Oddworld game? In a few years? WHY?

totor · #5 05-22-2008, 11:57 AM

I don't understand anything. Did OWI's studio close or not?

GlacierDragon · #6 05-22-2008, 12:00 PM

YAY! I hope they do make another game, I really do.

EDIT: But what about CS? Are they just going to abandon it? I really wish OWI would make up their minds on what they are doing.

OddYouko · #7 05-22-2008, 12:38 PM

I don't really undertand all that BUT I really hope they make a new game and still get done with CS and the Abe movie.
I can't stand all this waiting! -faints-
I really can but it's driving me crazy.

Sanssouci · #8 05-22-2008, 01:11 PM

The article is misleading: the collaboration with Braun may not be on an Oddworld project, the article uses 'Oddworld' to mean 'Oddworld Inhabitants' and refers to it as a 'sequel to the franchise', which is frankly bizarre wording as a sequel would imply a direct link but as it is 'to' the franchise rather than within the franchise... (franchise being the Oddworld IP, separate to the Citizen Siege IP)
I wouldn't bet against this being Citizen Siege, as the article mentions the collaboration as the 'next' project. Though it could be any of the four.

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But what about CS? Are they just going to abandon it?

Why would you think that?

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An original property among four other new projects, Citizen Siege has yet to see release

MeechShrykull1029 · #9 05-22-2008, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by totor

I don't understand anything. Did OWI's studio close or not?

OWI is not closed.

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Originally Posted by GlacierDragon

YAY! I hope they do make another game, I really do.

EDIT: But what about CS? Are they just going to abandon it? I really wish OWI would make up their minds on what they are doing.

They won't abandon Cltizen Siege.

***Max the Mug*** · #10 05-22-2008, 01:14 PM

Wow, that sounds incredible! Which means it’s an awful lot to live up to, but a lot about what Lorne has been arguing for over the last couple of years. I’m no video game industry watcher, but Maxis will be a great company to do this. Does this article confirm Maxis’s involvement, or just Braun’s? Still, don’t get too excited yet. This is years off.

totor: Yes, they closed the studio. Now they design games for other studios (like Maxis) to make.

GlacierDragon: They haven’t abandoned Citizen Siege; they are working on multiple things at once. It’s taking long enough to get the ball rolling on any one of them for Lorne to split his attention amongst (apparently) four different things.

Sanssouci · #11 05-22-2008, 01:17 PM

Normally Lorne refers to using videogame assets to make movies. I like how Braun has switched it and referred to using movie assets to make games, which sounds better, even if Lorne's way is more technically correct.

**Bullet Magnet** · #12 05-22-2008, 05:16 PM

Interest: piqued. Carry on, good fellows.

Strike Witch · #13 05-22-2008, 09:13 PM

http://kotaku.com/392886/is-there-a-...ame-on-the-way

Saw it on Kotaku.

mudling · #14 05-22-2008, 11:03 PM

OMG!
Ditto to what Ghost said, I was on Kotaku, and saw the banner of Abe and I was like WTF!!?!
Wow, great news, can't wait for another OW game, and this is very intriguing.
Can't make me help but wonder, even though it's an "Oddworld game" that doesn't mean the game has to take part in Oddworld does it, it just has to be made by the company, doesn't it?
If so, it could be something we already know, owell.
*Edit* Wait, I'm realy confused. From reading over it, it seems like this is something new, and that Maxis is making it, unless Jeff Braun left the company.
Which would mean that the game would be set in Oddworld, and not hinder CI's progress at all, since OWI doesn't seem to be making it.
Hmm, seeing what Maxis has done before, this could be something like Habitales or Hand of the Odd.

Oddey · #15 05-23-2008, 03:13 AM

Maxis made the Sims. Oddworld made Abe. Sounds like there might end up being a Hand of the Odd. Or OddSims. Either way I'm excited. But how can Oddworld make so much all at the same time? Sure some of it is going to take years but still. If I was already excited I would have hopped around, but I'm not feeling all that springy at the moment.

**Xavier** · #16 05-23-2008, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Oddey

But how can Oddworld make so much all at the same time?

Oddworld "only" makes the concepts, story, designs and artistic direction.

If it's a game: the coding and rest of game developpement will be done by someone else...

If it's a movie or tv series: the animation will be done by someone else.

Lorne can direct a movie and supervise the artistic direction of a game "at the same time". He just won't need to be around 100% of the time for each project.

mudling · #17 05-23-2008, 04:29 AM

Like how George Lucas is with the EU (books)?
Thanks to him, we have twenty Darth Sidiuses running around, Chewbacka dies, and Luke gets married to someone who wants to kill him.
I would say Lorne is different but after OANST's protests, I'm starting to think otherwise.
Owell, I hope this turns out for the best, nethertheless, a Simoddworld would be hilarious, don't see it working though.

**Bullet Magnet** · #18 05-23-2008, 06:20 AM

Just because he was in Maxis, there's no reason to assume it will be "Sim" anything.

**Xavier** · #19 05-23-2008, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by mudling

Like how George Lucas is with the EU (books)?

I really hope Lorne will not do the same mistakes, but he really seems to care about his creations, so I trust him on that.

Oddsville · #20 05-23-2008, 11:44 AM

Its really good to finally hear something on Oddworld, even though its not much of anything at all. I agree with Xav on that Lorne really dose care for his creations a great deal. He based his whole company around just owning the IP's of his creations which takes a great deal of dedication. However Lorne has had some surprising moves in the past so heres hoping for the best!

**Xavier** · #21 05-23-2008, 11:50 AM

posted by Alex Hayter of cordweekly.com

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Update: Though Braun confirmed that he was working with Oddworld Inhabitants on a new product, it is uncertain if this game will be set in the Oddworld universe, or indeed if it will be an Oddworld sequel

So it might be Wage Wars, a game set on Oddworld, or something totally different...

It could even be pound dog!

Off-topic: glad to see you here Oddsville!

GlukkonGluk · #22 05-23-2008, 12:12 PM

It'd better b an OW game- and if so, it had better be relevent to the series with several things we can relate 2. (Or, the opposite of SW)

Oddsville · #23 05-23-2008, 12:24 PM

Yes, Its glad to be back; and with some good news! I've been in the Fire Academy for what seems like forever and now that I've finished I have time to start back up here. Glad to see that its still goin strong. Other than that I hope we at least get some more news soon or just something to keep us going, its been soo long sience we've really had something to feast on...

Daxter King · #24 05-23-2008, 06:22 PM

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/22/ne...-be-years-off/

It is Oddworld, but its gonna be a while. And you can probably bet its not gonna be on the Wii, since it goes "1 to 1" with animated movies.

MeechShrykull1029 · #25 05-23-2008, 06:34 PM

Yes, Abe is in it! It's either ME or SO. I think it's ME.

Wings of Fire · #26 05-23-2008, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by MeechShrykull1029

Yes, Abe is in it! It's either ME or SO. I think it's ME.

Where does it say Abe is in it?

MeechShrykull1029 · #27 05-23-2008, 06:42 PM

There is a screenshot of Abe.

OddYouko · #28 05-23-2008, 06:45 PM

That picture is from MO you can see Munch's eye in the bottom of the screen.

***Nate*** · #29 05-23-2008, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Daxter King

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/22/ne...-be-years-off/

It is Oddworld, but its gonna be a while. And you can probably bet its not gonna be on the Wii, since it goes "1 to 1" with animated movies.

I suspect that that reporter just doesn't know that OWI are operating outside of the Oddworld Universe with Citizen Siege. He's quoting the same student newspaper as everyone else (the one Xav posted in his initial thread).

mudling · #30 05-23-2008, 11:00 PM

Meech Shrykull, they used an old picture to show what Oddworld is for people who don't know.

Not everyone has abe's image burned in their heads.
Well, I realy do wish it's another oddworld game, but I don't think the chances of that are very high. But as I said before, it seems strange that you would make a game from someone's universe if it isn't the universe they're famous for.
Oh, and what the hell is pound dogs? Seriously.
And yes, I've seen the pictures on TOGG.