On December 20, 2004, Japanese developer Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya put online and freely accessible on his personal site Doukutsu Monogataria small video game for PC that he created alone, as a dilettante, over five years. With old-fashioned graphics, evoking the PC-Engine (a 1987 console), we play a robot with a cap who wakes up, amnesiac, in a cave populated by monsters, but also friendly creatures.
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From Japan to the United States, on forums and in instant messaging, the rumor is spreading: we absolutely should play this little confidential gem. An amateur, but renowned, English-speaking team then decides to take it over. With the assistance of Pixel, an English translation was made available forty days later. The most informed Internet users, eager to try their hand at the curiosity of the moment, then see for the first time the name of Cave Story – a literal transcription – appear on the screen.
« Cave Story arrived as game distribution systems like Steam [ne permettaient pas encore de distribuer ses propres jeux]. It was one of the first independent games to achieve real success.analysis with the Monde Dan Adelman, Indie Games Marketing Specialist. It was in 2006, commissioned by Nintendo to prepare the arrival two years later of WiiWare, its game sales and download platform, that he heard about Cave Story. The American publisher Nicalis, who spotted the title and wanted to market it, approached him to offer to port the game to Nintendo's Wii console. “We had to wait until 2010 for Nicalis to start distributing Cave Story on Wii and Pixel receives the first cent on his game, explique Dan Adelman. He never made a product to be sold, he simply made it for the love of creation. »
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