we are ALL Daisuke Amaya on this blessed day :)
i remember having had to go to like, a toys R us and get a dsiware points card in order to get this game. i think cave story represents such a formative experience to a lot of folks simply because it was the only thing that existed at such a distinct scale, like a feature-length single player indie game, for a very long time. i didn’t really truly get into indie games until the advent of the minecraft alpha finally pushed me towards getting a computer, but gosh did i play a lot of cave story :)
i think the game represents a type of spirit that is still just incredibly hard to replicate. i think some folks are talking about how ‘animal well’ was made in it’s own custom engine or such, but even then, having the whole custom software stack like cave story used is just inimitable. and yeah a lot of that probably was just necessity of the time, but still. props to pixel
bad dog. no. down, down boy
cave story was one of the first indie games i was able to download on my own (on dialup!), it was really eye opening!!