![]() ![]() “Got a job at Nintendo! I’ll do my best,” Fumoto said on Twitter today. Like the best arcade games, its concept was clear, clever, and immediate. Downwell is one of those games that is easy to play but hard to master. Ellison mentioned Fumoto and Downwell in a Guardian article, which quickly led to indie publisher Devolver Digital offering him “a large sum of money” to bring the game to market, Ellison wrote. 22nd February 2019 3 minute read Light Downwell drops on to the Nintendo Switch, but will you fall in love with it all over again Ojiro Fumoto’s Downwell won instant acclaim from players and critics when it first came to PC and iOS in late 2015. Stay tuned for further entries highlighting JRPGs, general indie titles, and some more the off-the-wall Vita titles out there coming soon. Fumoto began making Downwell in March 2014 while he was studying opera singing at the Tokyo University of the Arts, according to Cara Ellison’s book Embed With Games. at 3:57 AM (Updated) 1 1 This is part one in a series of posts highlighting some of the best games available on the PlayStation Vita. The mid-20s indie developer has had an interesting path to this point. The vertically scrolling roguelike platformer, which drew comparisons to Spelunky, focuses on a “young person falling down a well battling enemies with gun boots and collecting treasure and sometimes visiting shops.” ![]() “Way excited!!!!”įumoto goes by the handle Moppin online, and he released Downwell under that moniker in October 2015 on iOS and Windows it launched on Android, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita the following year. It feels like that at times, but other times it feels like a platformer with shooter mechanics thrown in. ![]() “It was super fun developing games as indie, and I can’t wait to see what it’s like to develop games as part of a bigger team,” said Fumoto. Ojiro Fumoto’s vertical rogue-like platformer Downwell took the PC and mobile world by storm last year, winning a handful of Game of the Year awards from the likes of The Jimquisition and Destructoid (where it was awarded a perfect 10/10 score). ![]()
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