Mafro

May 15

Make Games: How to Tell When You Gave Artists Too Much Control Over Design -

A half hour into Earthworm Jim on SNES, and three things became painfully clear to Andy (Hull) and me: 1. wow, Earthworm Jim is a worse game than we remembered, 2. Earthworm Jim was designed by visual artists with little experience in game design, and 3. modern studios haven’t learned from…

Couldn’t have said it better myself. The gameplay in Earthworm Jim was pretty bad, but back then when it first came out I was too won over by the visuals and animation to realise.