Oddworld Inhabitants

Originally posted on jawltd.com on 1 December 2010.

Welcome to the third instalment of the Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD Development Diary! In this edition, we will take a look at how we have been working on increasing the fidelity of the audio for the next generation!

To do the work we hired freelance sound designer Michael Taylor, who took on the task of going through the development archives to find all the original audio by Michael Bross, and rebuilding it!

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Originally posted on jawltd.com on 8 October 2010.

In this Dev Diary we are going to take a closer look at the character pipeline and share what we are doing to bring them up to date.

Before beginning any actual 3D work on this project we first had to asses the current art assets supplied by Oddworld. Unfortunately this involved searching through gigabyte after gigabyte of very old data, most of which was in Maya 4.5 format, (we are currently on Maya 2011, Maya 4.5 was used back in 2005). This data consisted of the original Xbox assets as well as some of the super high resolution CG models used for the pre-rendered cinematics, as well as lots of other unusable things.

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Originally posted on jawltd.com on 16 September 2010.

After months of discussions with the team at Oddworld Inhabitants we decided a plan of action to bring Oddworld back to today’s gamers, and that by remastering Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath. So what to tackle first, after all there are a number of things to keep track of and update…

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