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Another version had him being really empathetic towards animals, and he worked to help the animals escape, which is what led to the Glukkons choosing to use Muds as a food source.
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I didn't know about this version. Interesting!
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Personally I’ve always found books where all the characters are alien creatures to be very difficult to really enjoy. Since books lack the visual element it becomes a lot more difficult to describe unfamiliar creatures to the audience.
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I'm not a big reader of science fiction—I dabble in the genre, but it's more of a guilty pleasure than anything else—so I've yet to encounter a book that included a purely alien cast. There's been alien creatures, such as in Saga of the Seven Suns, and in Asher's Polity novels, but I don't ever recall a core alien character, at least from my library. Humans are usually the focus, and rightly so, but I have every faith that it could be done. If Dante could take us to hell, heaven and what comes between, and if Tolkien could whisk us away to the world on the other side of ours, there's nothing stopping a talented author from taking us to an odd world far away.
The lack of a visual element is hardly detrimental anyway. Authors are authors because they can express a vision via language, a fair portion of them anyway. A good author can describe the indescribable, and the reader's imagination fills in the blanks. Regardless, as I've already said, including auxiliary drawings of Oddworld's people, places and things—such as Brandon Sanderson included within The Stormlight Archive—would solve any issues of perceptibility.
EDIT: I'd just like to emphasise that if you prefer a visual story to a literary one, that's fine, I'm not trying to attack anyone's preferences, merely trying to stress that a novel could definitely work with the right author and artist combination.