Why hasn’t Elum been seen since Abe’s Oddysee?
On the A.L.I.V.E. game engine, Elum was a memory‐intensive character whose scenes in Abe’s Oddysee were carefully scripted and fairly limited,32:28, 88 never appearing with more than Abe and a Slig at any time.80 His animations were hard to fit into the game, and there were many programming issues such as Abe getting shot while mounting Elum, or mounting him backwards.89 Because of RAM cramp, he was excluded from Abe’s Exoddus88 with the excuse that even Elum was not hardy enough to find food in the Necrum Desert, and so did not cross it with Abe.
