The creators of Salad Fingers are making a strange side-scrolling beat-up.

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The creators of Salad Fingers are making a strange side-scrolling beat-up.

The imaginative David Firth, creator of the internet sensation "Salad Fingers," revealed a game in development earlier this month.

Jackson's main character traits are that he is a terrifying little creature, that he animates in Adobe Flash, and that he speaks in all-caps. He has been summoning sleep paralysis demons with his brain and trapping them in his animations since 2004.

Firth first described this game in a video titled "I used to make games" on his Youtube channel. The video is a 10-minute journey back to the old Internet days, filled with crude 2D animation created by an edgy teenager who grew up watching "South Park."

"JErry jACkson LANDs turbo edition: the rune's off time - the stones of jon - qeust 4 the godlen sand of power" had to wrestle with spell check to quote correctly sentence and the title of Firth's upcoming game. Currently, it is "a total of four levels long, with bosses, story, dialogue, multiple modes, and lots of unnecessary violence."

In an interview with Dualshockers, he elaborated on the game's pricing and his creative process. He said, "At school, you can break all kinds of things. You can break vending machines, turn off lights, talk to people, bounce on their heads, just hit them and they will bleed or fall over.

"It just feels good. It's vulgar and unnecessary, but in his world it seems necessary."

"I'm not going to take 49.99 pounds, I'm not going to take 49.99 pounds, I'm not going to take 49.99 pounds, I'm not going to take 49.99 pounds, I'm going to take 49.99 pounds.

Watching the images from the game itself, one can't help but be haunted by a time that one thought had been erased from one's memory. While many remember Salad Fingers, a thin, fragile looking creature with long, wrinkled fingers in a bleak world filled with death, my first exposure to his work was Burnt Face Man.

I rewatched the first episode to get in the right frame of mind for this writing, and I can't say that it spoke to me as it did to Harvey in middle school - nor the Jerry Jackson Land images themselves. But like most of his work, I am glad it exists and that he is still making such work.

This work distills the strange essence of the early Internet that has remained untainted since the debut of "Salad Fingers" in 2004. Even the art style has been preserved like a fossil, unchanged by evolution.

Firth has no timeline for the game's release, as he states in the video: "These won't be out anytime soon. I'm not going to quit, but who knows what will happen. I made the mistake of announcing something once. I will not do it again."

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