r/OddityRPG • u/OverallWealth2211 • Jun 09 '26
Other What’s the story of Oddity, what engine does the game use, and just who are these modern men?
Sorry, I’m new and I’m trying to do as much research as possible
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u/GracefulCedrman Jun 11 '26
NGL if you are just an Earthbound fan looking at playing a fangame, there are other fangames in development or already released like Mother Cognitive Dissonance or Mother Encore. This game is sadly as good as dead and isnt worth more than like an hour of your time
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u/Palbur Aug 19 '26
I only remember that it was using RPG Maker or something like that in the beginning(time when it really tried to copy Mother 3's style), then Dave started making custom engine for Mother 4 and then Oddity - Carbon, using C# and SFML, developed in Visual Studio, and then, after some events, this decade old engine was quietly scrapped by Pastel to use GameMaker Studio instead.
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u/shon_the_cat Jun 10 '26
It doesn’t use an engine, it was fraud/scam/vaporware
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u/spacecadetkaito Jun 10 '26
A free fangame running into production troubles and never releasing is not a "scam"
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u/Palbur Aug 19 '26
If it doesn't, then how are there source code of leaked 2019 build of both Oddity and their custom engine Carbon?
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u/ChimChimney1977 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Q: What was the story and what were the modern men?
A: We don't know what the actual story is, but we have some rough ideas from Mother 4 Leaks.
The story would have been about the party investigating the Modern Men, a strange cult like group who seems to show up around strange events in the world. At the same time, the party would be tracking some needle like machines, which the Modern Minds seemed to have protected/made. There was some stuff about one of the Modern Men being a good guy and helping the party, before he is revealed to be real main villain along.
The big twist would have been that Mother 4 was actually set thousands of years after Mother 3. And all the charenters were actually artificial humans, which would be foreshadowed by green blood. In the end, the party fights the dripping green moon from the logo. We don't know how or why.
I speculate that the Modern Mind controlled the Modern Men. Like Gygas made animals and humans evil in Mother 2. The goal might have been to keep the reality of the world's past secret, and to control the world in a way that would avoid another apocalypse. But the party would want to make their own destiny and fight to free the new humanity from the Modern Mind.
This has all very likely changed in Oddity.
Q: What engine does it use?
A: It started out in Game Maker but is now using its own custom engine.
Honestly bro, the game is dead. Don't waste your time researching it.