Joystiq conducted a very good interview with Twisted Pixel’s Mike Wilford. Here are some of the highlights:
Joystiq: What kind of games are you harkening back to with Comic Jumper? It looks like there’s a little bit of everything in there.
Mike Wilford: Definitely Contra, Gunstar Heroes, and a common theme across all of our games is that they’re character-driven. We try to put a lot of personality and humor into the characters, so Earthworm Jim is a huge influence for us. Back in the day, there seemed to be a whole lot of mascot-type characters in games, like Mario, Sonic, all those things, and not many devs seem to be doing that anymore. We’re trying to bring that back a little bit with our games.
Joystiq: Any idea when Comic Jumper is going to come out? I know a lot of that’s dependent upon Microsoft.
We’re not really talking about that so far, you know we’re still working on it really, really hard. Even if we knew when it was gonna be coming, Microsoft probably wouldn’t let us talk about that or price point or anything like that so …
Joystiq: You guys are going with Microsoft again as publisher?
I think at PAX we’re planning on pretty much making it known to everybody, might as well talk about that now. It’s gonna be an XBLA exclusive.
Check out the complete interview over at Joystiq.
