Lorne Lanning

Lorne Lanning is an American game designer as well as a writer and a voice actor. He is also the co-founder and president of the video game developer of Oddworld Inhabitants. He is best known for creating the Oddworld games series which includes the games Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and also Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.

Lorne Lanning is also known for his voice talent and has voiced many characters in his own Oddworld games. He did voicing for Oddworld's signature character Abe, Munch and the Stranger, as well as Alf ,the Vykkers Humphrey and Irwin, Blisterz Booty, Doc Vykker, Castraider and Sekto, General Dripik and Director Phleg, who is Abe's Exoddus, and the Sligs. Lorne Lanning provided every character voice for Abe's Oddysee alone but was later joined by other Oddworld Inhabitants crew members to voice characters in Abe's Exoddus, Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath but with Lanning still voicing the majority of the characters.

His creative vision in game design and property development at Oddworld Inhabitants has gained him a worldwide recognition. This includes several documentaries and his character creations featured on the cover of Wired Magazine. Also he claims he has always had a fascination with video games and stated that his father was an engineer for Coleco.

According to an interview in may 2008, he has stated that after a multi-year hiatus, he is currently restarting gaming production for Oddworld but at this present time there is no plans or information that involves production that would be developed specifically by him.

When I was younger I owned a lot of his games on my play station so at the age I’m at now he has inspired me. I like his work because back then that kind of game was new and especially for an alien kind of game.