The Kid's design came about as the game's designer, Micheal O'Reilly, was speaking with a friend about the difficulties of making sprite art. He made something very quickly that he would wind up using for the game. He notes that he didn't think I Wanna Be The Guy would become popular, so he really didn't put that much effort into the Kid's design, as it was simply a project where he was attempting to learn how to make video games.