David Perry believes Earthworm Jim revival will happen
Earthworm Jim has been dormant for ages. However, original designer David Perry thinks we’ll see the series return one day.
The main issue right now is getting a team together. Perry spoke about this before eventually stating, “I’m sure it’s going to happen, I just can’t tell you exactly when.”
Perry told Eurogamer:
“Our problem is that the team is all doing well in whatever they’re doing right now. It’s just a bunch of guys who all have their own thing. Everyone has their own company. So, to get them to stop what they’re doing and work on a game is very difficult, but it’s something they all want to do. We have our own little discussion group on Facebook. We’ve been having this discussion: when will this happen? When could we do it? What would make sense? We feel the Kickstarter thing would have been fun just to see how much money could be raised out of a Kickstarter, because we would have put a lot of effort into the video, for example. It’s one of those things that, no one’s got the time right now. I’m sure it’s going to happen, I just can’t tell you exactly when.”
Petty also spoke about some of the ideas he’s been kicking around for a new Earthworm Jim:
“The thing we had talked about in the past is Jim had been in retirement. So, he’s been sitting at home watching movies and eating popcorn. He’s grossly overweight now. The plan was to start with him literally getting off the sofa, and it’s a disaster because he just hasn’t done anything since. But he’s got to get back into action again.”
Next, Perry indicated that we won’t be seeing a “wimpy” Jim. Those remarks are based on sketches made by creator Doug TenNapel.
“There’s an interesting tension between Doug and myself. When he started to draw the new Earthworm Jim, if I showed you the sketches of what he wanted the next Earthworm Jim to look like, I can guarantee you’d go, no! Don’t go that way! Because he’s going wimpy. My job I to fight him on that. No, don’t go wimpy. We don’t want wimpy.”
The new game will definitely be in 2D, by the way:
“2D by definition is just a camera moving with you. The answer is, I would do 2D, but if you wanted you could play with the camera a little. But I don’t like it when you’re doing very 3D, because then your jumps become very hard to predict and then your controller starts breaking. It wouldn’t be fun.”
