Oddworld Inhabitants’ boss guy Lorne Lanning has told EGM that all your dreams have just come true, and an HD remake of Abe’s Oddysee is in development over at Just Add Water.
“Abe HD is going into production. It’s basically Abe’s Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer. So the way Just Add Water wants to approach it, we thought was very smart; they are not trying to reinvent any wheels. It’s like, ‘Can we make that experience in a new engine, with new tech, in the old way?’”
In the meantime, of course, the studio is busy working on an HD version of Stranger’s Wrath for a PSN launch later this year.
“For Stranger, it’s the same game, but being re-done,” he says. “All the normal maps and the PS3 rendering tech is being taken advantage of on all the characters and on the environments, so it’s been really cool to see how well that’s coming along. We never had it on [PS2], and the rendering capability of the PS3 speaks for itself, so if we can get the game experience on there, there’s nothing else like Stranger on Sony.”
Apparently an XBLA release is also a possibility, but it’s kinda complicated. “We have Stranger all ready to go on XBLA,” adds Lanning, “but the answer keeps being no. We’re still talking to [Microsoft] and we’re hoping to work it out.”
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