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The decision to focus on unfinished and abandoned games came from a desire for an event to cater to non-commercial gamemaking. Avery said that "no one is going to ask for Steam wishlists for a game that isn't going anywhere". The focus also emerged as a response to their position as game design students.
edited image of a chart from the "barkley 2" kickstarter, a table that sorts games based on being "for trend", "for corporate attitude", "for stoner", and a fourth category "true doom murderheads". The first three categories have been covered up completely and text replaced. "for trend" sits above a block that reads "GAMBLER", "for corporate attitude" sits above a block that reads "WHOLESOME" and "for stoner" above "PSX". true doom murderheads is untouched
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