/v/ - Video Games

>>16314305

I wanna say Yume Nikki, but almost all of those RPG Maker Games fit and it feels like cheating.

There are many, many freeware projects done on even less time and labor than Cave Story. shmup-dev.com used to have a competition where people would try to figure out the best game they could make in a single game.

>>16322860

in a single day, rather

Iji is a freeware game that became a cult hit. I don't think Remar spent that much on it.

For anyone unaware, he actually updated the game in 2017 with a bunch of changes like passive weapons.

http://www.remar.se/daniel/iji.php

>>16314305

Dwarf Fortress (sadly pozzed now, you can play older versions pretty much forever).

Early Minecraft (now a property of (((jewsoft))); the rendering engine was written by notch in 24 hours for example; pre purchase versions have mods, specially 1.7.10, and low budget versions [classic, survival test, indev, infdev alpha and early beta although he did temporarily hire a guy to do 3d things in infdev days, he was fired soon after, mojang was only stablished in ~2010] are great for nostalgia).

Nethack (apparently slowly beginning to be pozzed now since the devteam was seemingly replaced over the 10 year update pause and they are making changes that are different from the rest of the game and its detail).

Etc.

I don't know what the budget was for it, but if you want an example of making more out of less, check out Return of the Obra Dinn. Every element is designed with strict limitations, but the game is designed to work with those limitations and have them serve the game rather than hinder it.

Intrusion 2 was made by one ruski.

Though the music was from another guy.

>>16322980

>Jewsoft

>when you can so easily call then Kikerosoft

You're like cuckchanners, forcing meme terms into random words where they don't fit in the slightest.

>>16323076

I had not thought of that one before. Thank you.

>>16314305

I forgot menctioning Touhou. All of it except fighter games (which are collabs), and PC98 games (since they had libs and helper programs from another people and ZUN's older team) are 100% made by the guy ZUN.

>>16323071

Good game.

>>16314681

You're forgetting that time is money anon. For all the time he spent working on it, he probably could have easily made $100k if he had been working as a software developer on some business software during the same time frame.

>>16323204

Tome and shit are the only ones that have been banned from PSN.

>>16323412

You're only saying that since the iso size is really small.

>>16322956

>I don't think Remar spent that much on it.

He certainly didn't. And yet, even some of the most immiserated freeware developers could still manage to provide a functional control setup utility or basic controller support, unlike that hack.

I don't think Cactus spent more than a week developing this one.

Locomalito has made a lot of arcade-like games and some of them are quite good. Viriax is probably his shortest work but also one of his most replayable games.

>>16323204

Time shouldn't be a factor in hobbyist games, I would rather talk about Cave Story than some piece of shit a guy made in a day.

Linley Henzell is another big figure in the freeware scene, he's made a ton of stuff. Excellent Bifurcation is one of his better projects done for one of shmup-dev's week-long game development competitions.

Buster also made a few really cool freeware shooters right around the time Cave Story was released and then the whole internet forgot about him. Vacant Ark and Iwanaga are both way better games than Cave Story.

Jeff Vogel was the original one-man wonder of the shareware scene. The Exile series of RPGs are massive games built on improving aspects of the Ultima games.