>>717105646
pixel was just built different
someone who is actually good at coding, enough to code a whole game from scratch starting at 1999 is rare enough as it is, but he also
>already was good at drawing
>understood what made games fun
>had a lot of pretty creative ideas for character designs, gameplay features, and general worldbuilding really
>despite having no experience composing, still managed to produce banger after banger (on a DAW he himself created btw)
>and to top it all off he only created the game not for money, nor fame, nor a joke, nor to prove a point but for the simple love of the craft and process
you can at most get 2 or 3 of these traits in any one other famous indie dev you can think of