Adventure Time creator keen on a game adaptation

Pendleton Ward, creator of Cartoon Network's cultural force Adventure Time, would like to see an open world RPG, or at least a side scroller, based on the series.

"I’d be stoked to work on an Adventure Time video game. I think that might happen eventually if the show stays popular," Ward told GameInformer.

"I vow to make a topnotch game. If it was a small budget I’d work to make a sidescroller, but if we had the largest budget in the world I’d love to make something like Oblivion, but set in the Adventure Time universe where it’s a giant free-roaming world. It might be fun to make it have Monster Hunter style gameplay with Katamari graphics.”

Ward is a keen gamer - he even admitted the next season of Adventure Time will probably be heavy on zombies, reflecting his current obsession with Dead Island - and feels the medium has strong narrative potential.

"I think games are amazing for telling stories. I don’t think that people do that very often," he said.

"I think story isn’t always the most important thing to game designers, but I wish it were. I think that the best games have stories, and when I eventually make games, story will be front and center."

The surreal, PG-rated Adventure Time - or Adventure Time with Finn and Jake - began in April 2010 and has rapidly gain a rabid fan base, spawned a number of Internet memes, and became a YouTube darling.

Thanks, GameSetWatch.