#nolybab

[toad-in-a-trenchcoat]

Stock Selection - part 1

just gonna post this one at a time and sans shading to try and motivate myself

[grumpygammon]

[ask-alf-oddworld]

I think Buddy should be in the next game. If they’re going to Nolybab, a city (obviously the majority of the population is Glukkons, but that doesn’t mean all), then it would make perfect sense for him to appear there. He was stated to be a khanzumer (Oddworld’s version of a consumer), so he would live in a more urban environment, hence Nolybab being a good time to finally put him in a game (since before it has been stated that he is good with navigation and making maps, maybe he could serve as someone who can guide the boys through the city, since Nolybab is going to be huge and would be easy to get lost in). But since he does live in a city and not as a slave in a factory, this would imply Sam is probably not his mother, as presumably all of her children are used as slave labour, we know for certain that all of the boys from RuptureFarms are hers, but we don’t know for sure if she also provides for other factories. So this brings a good point, if Buddy isn’t one of Sam’s, who is his mother? And why does he live in a city and not as a slave? And didn’t Lorne say worker Mudokons were treated the most poorly (being made to be slaves), whereas queens and drones were treated better and not made to be slaves? What does this imply for Buddy?

[sootfaced-mud]

Night time Nolybab moodboard

[magog-on-the-march]

 So, on Earth we live on a water planet. Oddworld is not a water planet, it’s a mostly dry planet. And there’s another layer to that… Have you ever read the theories of the Hollow Earth? It’s really far out stuff and I’m not in to it, but I’ve read it and it’s interesting as a theory. What I wanted to do is that I wanted to have cities that were underground. I wanted a world where such turmoil had taken place naturally that it had formed in to huge volcanic outside crusts and then shrunk again, so that shell stayed there but collapsed into big holes. So, the ‘leech’ creatures, the bad-guys, the Magog Cartel, those who came out of the swamps, the parasites, fleas in suits and ties, tape-worms with lapels; these guys needed to live in damp, warm places. Damp, with no sunlight, like slugs, but in suits. So we have these craters, and then out of these huge shells of collapsed earth that go down thousands of feet, they’ve built cities. When you’re looking across the landscape, you can see just the tips of cities coming out of these craters. But they’re not craters so much as large pockets.

The planet has three layers. So there’d be different ones that live here, different ones that live here and different ones that live here. And it would be different climates, different temperatures, different gravity. So the idea was that it was that much bigger, but it allows the planet to be smaller. And it wasn’t a water planet. Not perfect, you know, but fun idea.

-- Lorne Lanning, in this 2011 interview (x)