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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Video games, films, television |
| Founded | September 1994 in San Luis Obispo, California |
| Founder | Lorne Lanning Sherry McKenna |
| Headquarters | Emeryville, California , United States |
Key people | Sherry McKenna (CEO) Lorne Lanning (president) Bennie Terry (executive producer) |
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| Website | Oddworld.com |
Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. is an American video game developer founded in 1994 by special-effects and computer-animation veterans Sherry McKenna and Lorne Lanning. The company is primarily known for the Oddworld, series of video games about the fictional planet of Oddworld and its native creatures. The series debuted with Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 1997 and continued with Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee in 2001 but the studio has also developed standalone titles Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 1998 and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath in 2005.
Oddworld Inhabitants took a break from game development for a time following the release of Stranger's Wrath, even though it had already begun preliminary work on its next Oddworld title, The Brutal Ballad of Fangus Klot. However, it remained an active, operating company during this period, primarily through the development of a movie called Citizen Siege, though to this day it has not been released.[1]
The company returned to the video game industry with UK-based developer Just Add Water in resurrecting the Oddworld franchise through remastering existing titles and developing new ones.[2] A remaster of the studio's first game developed by Just Add Water, called Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty![3] was released in 2014. It was followed up by Oddworld: Soulstorm, released on April 6, 2021.[4]
- ^ "Q&A: Oddworld's Lorne Lanning and Sherry McKenna". Gamespot. 30 October 2006. Archived from the original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ^ "Maxis Co-Founder Confirms Oddworld Return". Spong. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
- ^ "Round-up of Oddworld News at E3". Oddworld Inhabitants. June 11, 2013. Archived from the original on October 24, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
- ^ TAKAHASHI, Dean (March 19, 2019). "Oddworld: Soulstorm Visuals Debut at Unity Event". VentureBeat. Retrieved April 19, 2019.