“
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 short-term fans of the Oddworld series can expect to see the previously announced
Stranger’s Wrath coming for the PSN. “For
Stranger, it’s the same game, but being re-done,” Lanning explains. “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.”
As far as XBLA is concerned, the future of
Stranger is a bit less clear, at least for now. “We have
Stranger all ready to go on XBLA, but the answer keeps being no. We’re still talking to them and we’re hoping to work it out.”