An extended interview with Oddworld’s creator, Lorne Lanning

Directed by Sean Dacanay, edited by Jeremy Smolik. Transcript is still in progress and will be ready in the next few hours.

In December, we ran a "War Stories" video on the Oddworld series, an unusual 90s-era adventure/platformer title that sees the player inhabiting the role of escaped factory slave Abe in his quest to avoid being turned into canned food. Filmed with the help of Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning, the video turned out to be very popular-doubtless because Lanning makes for a damn compelling interview subject.

We've gotten a lot of feedback on the video since it aired, primarily asking for more Lorne, and so we're going to try a bit of an experiment: rather than try to scrub through the original and pull out some more highlights, we've just exported the whole nearly-three-hour shoot for you guys.

Highlights for the full interview here include a fuller origin story for Abe, crazy stories from Lorne's father about disappearing world leaders and famous people on Arctic submarines, and some discussion about drug-fueled motion graphics design.

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