{"id":62645,"date":"2014-03-18T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62645"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:07:01","slug":"new-oddworld-game-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62645-new-oddworld-game-on-the-horizon","title":{"rendered":"New Oddworld game on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddworld creator, Lorne Lanning has hinted at a brand new Oddworld game if his latest creation, New &#8216;n Tasty, can sell 500,000 copies.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Eurogamer at GDC, Lanning also said if he could move 250,000 copies of New &#8216;n Tasty &#8211; a remake of Abe&#8217;s Oddysee &#8211; \u00a0a remake of Abe&#8217;s Exxodus would be on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I&#8217;m doing a new Oddworld game, I&#8217;m not going to do it for $2 million (R21.5m). I might do it for five or six,&#8221; he said.\u00a0&#8220;People keep asking me, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you Kickstart Oddworld? You could get at least $1 or $2 million.&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;What would I do with a couple million on Kickstarter? On a new Oddworld title?&#8217; Not much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lanning said New &#8216;n Tasty would retail for 30$ (R323.00) when it was released, and promises a &#8220;quality&#8221; experience for the price.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This game will play better, look better, and you&#8217;ll have more fun with more hours of play than games you&#8217;re paying $60 (R646.00) for,&#8221; said Lanning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this had a publisher, the price would be higher and they&#8217;d be calling it a triple A.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LiONbcMOgds?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you want to help save Abe and his Mudokon friends again, and would you like to see a new Oddworld title? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-03-18-new-n-tasty-needs-to-sell-500k-to-fund-an-original-new-oddworld-game\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/62643-eat-sleep-play-repeat-mygaming-lifestyle-survey.html\">Eat, sleep, play, repeat: MyGaming Lifestyle Survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62627-is-there-hope-for-xbox-one-in-south-africa.html\">Is there hope for Xbox One in South Africa?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/62622-snake-and-super-humans-games-you-can-play-this-week.html\">Snake and super humans: games you can play this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddworld creator says New &#8216;n Tasty needs to sell 500,000 copies to fund the planned project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12142,4932,6993,31,3864,1839,1491],"class_list":["post-62645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-abes-exxodus","tag-abes-oddysee","tag-abes-oddysee-new-n-tasty","tag-active","tag-gaming-news","tag-gdc","tag-oddworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62647,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62645\/revisions\/62647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}