Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we finish our series on 2004 indie classic Cave Story . We talk a lot about difficulty, a bit about story, and also just what a miracle a game like this is from one person. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Finished (Brett), to dragons (Tim) Issues covered: killing baby dragons, the boss rush, being exhausted beating your head against the wall, drinking a potion maybe too early, what is easy when you play a game every day, the hardcore game underneath, the punishing weapon system, depth of weapon strategy, bad patterns, save points as a balancing mechanism, the charm offensive, story depth and characters, motivating the player, having the music stop to introduce a character, the jetpack weapon, finding the map really late, keys that aren't keys, a HUD on top of level information, parallax, designing for player scalability, macro difficulty and player choice, linearity, having a choice at the end, committing to make a game more difficult or easier for yourself, the music options. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: League of Legends , Nintendo Treehouse, Hollow Knight/Silksong, From Software, Bayonetta , Nintendo Switch, Calamity Nolan, Resident Evil 4 , Jamie Fristrom, MegaMan , Kaeon, Earthbound, Mario (series), Metroid, Castlevania, God of War, Celeste, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Dark Souls , KyleAndError, Metal Gear Solid (series), Fez, Spelunky, Derek Yu, Outer Wilds , LostLake, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: Spelunky ! Links: Music for Podcasting! Twitch: timlongojr Discord
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