Gaming, to this day, still hasn't surpassed it.
No indie dev would even consider making their own music format, game engine, their own art, and polish it all until it's perfect. No AAA dev would ever make anything that isn't a vapid skinner box. Nobody understands pixel's methodology or has his commitment to a project. Nobody in gaming had the love for programming like he did.

Gaming, and society as a whole, peaked here, and it has all been downhill ever since.

>*blocks your path*

Iconoclasts is better

so....what was the story about?

>>715587083 (OP)
>no indie dev would even consider making their own music format, game engine, art, and polish
There were tons of games like that before, Cave story isn't the only one it's just the last

>>715587083 (OP)
I love this game but I've never been able to best monster x
This will haunt me until I literally die

>>715587239
>the absolute madman updates this to this day

>>715587239
What is this

I like Hollow Knight more.

>>715587327
NTA but
Cho Ren Sha 68k
It's a doujin shmup from 1997 which actually has two devs - one guy did all the art, programming, etc. and the other was the composer

>>715587396
Goddamn this looks kino. I read the Wikipedia article and this guy was fucking dedicated. He started developing it on his own in 1993.
https://youtu.be/3Oo24qiohfk?si=Jq43eF3vfvthPDic
How's the difficulty compared to other shmups? I suck at shmups

>2025: Pixel's just been cancelling game projects and working on his cat comic the odd day

>>715587083 (OP)
>1 guy made all this in 5 years
>indie devs cant even release a game in 8 years now

>>715588979
He made it while also working a full time job and having other responsibilities too.

>>715588979
>1 guy made all this in 5 years and making his own tools
>indie devs cant even release a game in 8 years now using off-the-shelf tools that simplify a lot of the headaches of game dev

>>715587083 (OP)
>backtracking: the game
I like Cave Story, but come on.

>designed his own software wavetable synthesizer
pixel is fucking crazy

>>715589143
It's not as hard as you think, you just need to study properly and apply yourself.

>>715587146
>game made in gamemaker

>>715589143
making synths is easy, 1bit synths are fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRfjnZGMEqc

>>715588979
>>1 guy made all this in 5 years
p sure Pixel got help from friends

>>715587235
Evil scientist steals a wizard’s evil artifact and uses it to make a bunny girl slave army. You have to kill him and the wizard.

>>715587083 (OP)
>Gaming, to this day, still hasn't surpassed it.
>No indie dev would even consider making a kino game, then selling those rights to your game away, therefore shelving what would be the sequel to the kino that you just made, therefore turning you off from game development entirely
The first thing you should do as a game dev is hire a lawyer, kids

>>715587235
Cave Story is a jumping-and-shooting action game. Explore the caves until you reach the ending. You can also save your game and continue from where you left off.

>>715589534
>making synths is easy
Not with the documentation available in Japanese back then.

It's incredible what an honorary white man can do with passion and hard work.

>>715587083 (OP)
*stands in your path*

>>715587146
>game seems great
>undertale reference in the home stretch

>>715589141
i like backtracking. a lot of people do. metroid is a beloved series and you sound like a retard when you just state
>uhhh it has this mechanic i don't like bro

>>715588979
Pixel is an absolute madman, he made indie solodev look easy. A generation of indies saw Cave Story and thought "Hey, I can do that too!", until they realized they actually couldn't.

>>715587083 (OP)
I respect Cave Story but I genuinely don't think it's that good of a game.
And the whole play-perfect be-perfect kind of weapons/power system, is honestly more annoying and dissatisfying than not.

I'd rather the game would just kill and force me to restart than to weaken me and make the game unfun.

>>715587235
This is a story about a cave.
A story about a robot rolling with a whole lot of bravery.

>>715589621
Don't forget the part where you talk to a sad onion in a shack and then get launched halfway across the map by a toaster. Peak game design, I swear.

>>715587083 (OP)
I started up this game again recently on a whim, and it's a blast. The story is kind of underbaked, but it's not a problem usually
>>715589141
bro what? backtracking in cave story is extremely minimal, unless you're counting shit like the ruined egg corridor

>>715587083 (OP)
>mediocre super metroid

huh

>>715590607
I can though, and no you can't see my game

>>715587083 (OP)
so many have blown fucking cave story out it would blow your mind

>>715594240
such as?

Pretty much any rogue like has as much love and effort or even more so put into it. Cave story is just the best known and has good art which translates to good marketing.

>>715594725
Those shit heaps don't have any effort put into level design or balancing.

>>715594787
It's easy to design levels on a flat 2d plane that goes from left to right up and down vs infinite XYZ coordinates. I liked the developers of Shadow complexs talk on how they designed their games for anyone reading this is interested and wants to look it up.

Just a different design philosophy, sure most of the time a designed map is probably better but for roguelikes that would fly in the face of the entire point of the genre , infinite replayability

>>715595031
Yeah, it's bad for rouge lites, but is still better no matter what. That sidemode calling itself a genre is shitty. It's just gambling.