Mendel Palace

[ReSaurus] pulled out all the stops to put together a mind-blowing pitch kit. First, they commissioned me to do a bunch of art for the kit, and I drew some shots of Abe and some of the creatures that populated the universe of Oddworld. It didn’t stop there, though. The guys that worked full time for the company created a TON of prototypes of some various products as part of the original kit. There was to be a latex mask of Molluck the Glukkon, along with a hand puppet of a creature called a Paramite. This is either Jay or Chris modeling those original prototypes.

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PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028

So this is a font that was designed by someone at The Designer's Republic, though I don't know who, or what it was originally called. I think it was originally designed in 1993 for Pop Will Eat Itself, but it was also used in the game WipEout in 1995 and probably some other things.

It's an early example of what would later be labelled "the Y2K aesthetic", though it's really a continuation of 1970s and 1980s sci-fi aesthetics.

You can download a version of it from the Pop Will Eat Itself website. This one is called Amalgamation, after the compilation album, but that's probably not the original name.

In the book WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives, the font is called "Anti-Gravity Racing League Official Custom Typeface". In the game itself, the font is too low-resolution to make out the satirical ® symbols.

Trip Machine NM - The air was cool that day (Trip Machine Stage 1 - Decline of the City)

Another bit of Trip Machine music- this time, corresponding to the rough "level" seen in The Quiet City of Splatsville. Though much like Sparking before it, were Trip Machine some sort of playable "hero mode", the actual level would be a lot longer than what the story covers. I am at least confident in the general 'setting' of the level though- all the inbetween streets, cutaways, and courtyards between the buildings, a bit like the actual Splatsville hub in the game. Just, y'know, early in the morning, unusually cold for the time of year, and with Robots.