Indies Saved The Metroidvania. Here's How
Nintendo and Konami invented the Metroidvania. Then, they abandoned it. Discover how a generation of indie developers managed to revive a dying genre, and accidentally make it bigger than it ever was.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Origins of the Metroidvania
5:25 Cave Story and the Freeware Era
12:03 The Console Revolution
17:09 The AAA Dark Age
20:06 Metroidvania Megahits
25:46 The Metroidvania Renaissance
Music:
OSTs from Cave Story, Hollow Knight, Ghost Song, Metroid, Castlevania, Dead Cells, Guacamelee, 9 Years of Shadows
Sources:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/...
https://web.archive.org/web/201210090...
• Shadow Complex - Comic Con Developer Diary
https://web.archive.org/web/201204151...
https://yimplays.blogspot.com