looped cinematics for the 'Best Animated Short Film' category of the 71st Academy Awards. The game's cinematics reportedly cost around $2 million to develop, about half of the game's total development budget. Though the film failed to meet the shortlist CEO of Oddworld Sherry McKenna stated the pioneering move was done in order to increase the video game industry's reputation in the animation field: Related games Oddworld: Soulstorm, which is "a complete story retake" of the game according to Oddworld Inhabitants, released in April 2021 for Windows, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. References Notes External links Official Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus website Official Oddworld: Soulstorm website 1998 video games Oddworld Eco-terrorism in fiction Platform games PlayStation (console) games PlayStation Network games Windows games Video games with pre-rendered 3D graphics Works about mining Video games about slavery GT Interactive games Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by Ellen Meijers Multiplayer and single-player video games Video games with alternate endings Cinematic platform games Digital Dialect games