Salad Fingers creator is making a bizarre side-scroller beat'em up, which will be priced at 'a fiver or something'
David Firth, the vivid imagination responsible for disturbing internet sensation Salad Fingers, revealed an in-development game earlier this month, a platformer following the misadventures of violent, mouthy delinquent Jerry Jackson.
Jackson's main character traits involve being a horrible little creature, making adobe flash animations, and speaking in all caps. He's a classic creation from the mind of Firth, who has been summoning sleep paralysis demons with his brain and trapping them in animations since 2004.
Firth first described the game in a video on his Youtube channel titled «I used to make games», which explores his early dives into game development as a teenager. The video's a ten-minute trip to an older internet era, one filled with crusty 2d animations made by edgy teenagers fed a diet of South Park.
«JErry jACkson LANDs turbo edition: the rune's off time — the stones of jon — qeust 4 the godlen sand of power» is a sentence I had to fight with my spellcheck just to quote properly, and also the title of Firth's upcoming game. It's currently «a whole four levels long, has bosses, story, dialogue, multiple modes, and plenty of unnecessary violence.»
In an interview with Dualshockers he elaborated on the game's pricing and his creative process. «In the school, you can break everything—you can break the vending machine, you can knock the lights off, you can talk to people, bounce around on their heads if you want, or just bop them and they just kind of bleed and fall over.»
«It just feels nice. It’s kind of crude and unnecessary, but in his world it seems necessary.» He went on to say that he wants to get the game's runtime to at least an hour before releasing it, and plans to keep it cheap: «I’m not gonna charge
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