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While babysitting my brother we had this show on called "The Suite Life On Deck"

the episode had this virtual life thing. and in the background had all these arcade machines.
tell me this doesnt look like cave story.



(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n141/JaJitsu/Screenshot2010-03-21at93048AM.png)
(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n141/JaJitsu/Screenshot2010-03-21at93054AM.png)


If you want to see it in action i went ahead and found the video too.
http://www.megavideo.com/?d=5SY9UP7L
It starts at 0:15:00

Post of the fuckin' year. Nice find Ja.

Goddammit that's some bad CGI. I was hoping for a video of Miley Cyrus playing  :cavestory: Soulja Boy style.

Umm... are they allowed to do that?

Reminds me of when I noticed an Aquaria image using in an Onion video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ&NR=1 @ 1:43

Considering its in the background of some virtual space on the show, I would think it would fall under fair use.

Well, I certainly don't advocate being anal about your trademarks, but if Cave Story was owned by someone big, there could be a few sparks flying.

It makes me a little sad. Miley Cyrus wouldn't be better. Cave Story deserves to appear in a good show, not these Disney cheap unfunny shows.

... I used to love Disney. Now I can barely watch anything from them. It's not because I grew up, it's because they don't seem to care about quality anymore.


This is good comedy. Sadly, most people wouldn't even know that image comes from a game.

(http://i39.tinypic.com/330e7hj.png)

That's definitely Cave Story.

I wonder why they took out the save and health?

Maybe they edited thinking nobody would be able to recognize anymore.

Their evil plan was foiled.  :lol:

It's surprising how recognizable that first part is!

On a second thought, maybe they did it on purpose. Maybe it was a Cave Story fan who did it.

Yeah - looks more like a homage than just a lazy ripoff to me.

Not needed for a 2..3...4 player game?

Who thought of that?  I want to punch them.  I really, really, really want to punch them.  Also, Cave Story is played on a motorbike?

Well how the hell do you play it?

On a skateboard.

Duh.

My eyes... Can't take the terrible CGI...  :facepalm:

It has to look cgi, just like game have to have chip sound, or gamer uselessly moving their gamepad in non sense, or ordi that talks, or people that chat without ever ever using the spacebar or the enter keys.... You know!

ya, guys, all this means is that someone in disney is fucking awesome. some indie like ourselves, trapped in the belly of the man.
 :gentleman:

haha, that is true. I wonder who was the one to put it in...

I heard it was JaJitsu.

I'm with michael, that's awesome. :handthumbsupL:

Obviously not cave story, I mean, the backgrounds aren't even the same color.

Now if only cave story were to show up in something relevant...

That's a joke, yes?  :laughter:
I'm no Photoshop veteran, but I'm pretty sure it'd take no more than 10 left mouse clicks and a shade of green to change the color of those tiles.

I'm with Michael and Derek; it's cool to see indie outside indie, if you know what I mean.

Photoshopping betwixt poorly rendered 3d characters...sounds impossible.

Other than that, though, I dunno how cool I'd consider it. The disney crowd and cave story playing crowd arent exactly co-alligned, and a quarter of disney's audience is probably younger than cave story, so I doubt many people will get what it is. I suppose its better than nothing though.

:lol:

Why so? In the comparison the room seemed to have the exact same shape. It is surely Cave Story

You may argue it might have been photoshopped after the fact, but it is not too difficult for a Cave Story fan to slip the image in if all they need is a generic pixeled game image. Disney shows are for kids, but not made by kids.

I was just kidding, my point was that it was obviously cave story, beyond the point of disambiguation.

Ugh. What an awful comprehension failure.

Anyway, even if few people get it, the ones who do will be really happy. It's very rare to find references of indie games in mainstream media, as far as I know.

I played the hell out of Heroscape with my little brother and friends a couple years back; my brother's spotted the game's tiles and characters in a couple shows and movies. It's cool to have those hidden, nerdy easter eggs laying around.

To be on topic: this is pretty cool. 

Cave Story is on Nintendo now. Is it really still Indie?

Speaking of which, maybe I should pick that up. I finished Megaman 10, and really I want to encourage more people to make quality platformers on the Wii...

-SirNiko

Platform doesn't determine if it is indie or not....

Also: every iphone app, XBLA game and wiiware game ever... I always knew Xgen was evil somehow..

No, it is not.
Now that it will defy its own origin, reality will collapse around it to a point Cave Story will never have existed. We will be lucky if the backlash doesn't make Pixel disappear too. :crazy:

Seriously, now. Cave Story will be published on a Nintendo plataform, but it isn't the same as being dependent of a big publisher. It would be rougly the same to say the "indie-ness" of a game published on Steam is questionable. As far as I know, Nintendo is very strict(this is an understatement), but being on the Wiiware doesn't make any game less indie.

Sometimes I question the indie-ness of some games(well, at least one), but I don't see anything wrong with Wiiware Cave Story.

Ha, I wasn't really being totally serious, guys. To me you're Indie until you start saying "It should star a robot because statistics show those are popular in the 12-24 bracket" instead of "Hey, robots are cool. Let's make a game about one.".

-SirNiko

I for one am happy to see more inherently console-style indie games on, y'know, consoles.

Playing platformers on PC always seemed wrong to me anyway, in the same way that playing FPSs and strategy games on console seems wrong. Not that that's stopping me from doing these things, but I still see the PC as more of a temporary "exile" for 2D platformers until they return to consoles full force.  ;)

Until somebody invents a way for people to freely distribute their games on consoles for anyone to play like in computers, I don't think that's fully happening.

Well one can hope, right?

Also, it's already starting to happen (the return of platformers I mean) with the various console download services and big devs like Nintendo and Capcom revisting the genre.

Platformers never felt out of place for me, but the devil may cry and resident evil games felt cheapened, because both were designed at the core with a controller in mind, and the keyboard doesnt quite feel right.

It's not really about the controls, you can use a controller with a PC too, it's just that platformers are a "traditional" console genre and I'd rather see them where they belong (in my opinion), it's all personal preference.  ;)

Sinclair, lets make an indie game console.

There was a way, it was called XNA, but in market testing before it came out, they found out that game makers had no interest in paying a bit of money to distribute games for free. Microsoft flipped their game plan right around, now it is moderately successful.

Well, I did say freely distribute, that means not having to pay money to show off your freeware game you'd get no profit on, which is perfectly possible in the internet, but obviously something console manufacturers wouldn't be interested in.

I have never gotten what consoles are all about. How about using real computers, but adding functionality to them instead?

For example: connect your computer to your TV. Use wireless hand-controls. Run games that support the functionality needed. The game should be able to be played without mouse/keyboard. You have to suppress sounds/warnings from the OS (or use an OS that isn't all up in your face, like Ubuntu).

Or possibly create a special console-OS that is made for playing console-style games. That way, everyone could get access to the needed hardware for cheap and the system would never have to become outdated.

I think it's been mentioned by someone here a project to create an ultra-cheap, lo-fi, open indie console anyone could make games to. I don't think it caught on.

The thing that is amazing about consoles is standarization. If I made a console game, I could rely on it working on all consoles. Everybody would have the same experience, nobody would have to troubleshoot it, and the "installation" is as easy as it can possibly be.  It makes life easier for players, and it also makes life easier for developers, which means they have more time to focus on making the game good.

Standardization requires authority, which is something that an indie console would have trouble achieving.

I think the way to go would be to stay as hardware-agnostic as possible. Not making your own hardware.

There is a special linux-distribution that basically is a web-browser. The browser covers the screen and you can't close it. It works out-of-the-box on any old computer.

I think it would be fairly easy to create something similar for games. Instead of creating new special console hardware you could use old computers. Any old computer that can be connected to controls and a TV (or big screen) would work. Old computers are pretty much free today and are readily available almost everywhere.

If you built the OS on top of debian/ubuntu/something you would get hardware support for pretty much everything, too. The OS would work out-of-the-box on any crap you managed to put together, and games would automatically work as long as the computer met the minimum-requirements for each specific game.

Additionally, you would be able to program for it in C++, Java, Python, whatever.

Edit: Also, the built-in "Software Centre" in Ubuntu if mind-blowingly amazing. It automatically connects to software-servers and gives you a list of programs you can install. You can search, read descriptions, rate them (eventually) and one-click-install programs.

So you could easily get the same functionality on a console-OS as you get on online-marketplaces on regular consoles.

I don't see why you'd have to limit yourself to old computers.  Many console controllers can easily connect to computers (such as Wii, or Xbox controllers), so I don't see why there would be any problem with controllers.  With a computer to tv connection, you basically have a working console.  The only thing really not standing in the way is that people don't do it...

Well, there are two different things:
1) Use computers as consoles.
2) Create a standardized, affordable console that people can develop for. A system where you just pop in and play a game.

Depending on what we are discussing, I would give you the answer:
1) I completely agree with you. And this is what I'm most interested in, personally.
2) I'm saying that it would be easier to go the used-computer route instead of making your own hardware. It would even be doable.

There's also this (http://www.open-pandora.org/) .. unlikely to become wildly popular of course, but it's there :)

It seemed great some time ago. Now it's getting outdated and it's still not released yet.
It may push Linux games a little though.

want. i may not know ANYTHING about it, but a peguin is it's spokesperson

Why I prefer consoles:

• Ease of use. No screwing around with hardware and settings, every game works.
• I'm a bit of an ADD person. When play on PC I often Alt-Tab out of the game I'm playing to check my email and stuff like that. Consoles help me concentrate on what I'm really trying to do.
• I grew up with almost exclusively console gaming, so I have more of a personal attachment to it.

They entered mass production a few weeks ago.  Also, it may not be state of the art anymore, but i think it's still pretty cool.


For the desktop, you mean?  I doubt it..  ARM is a completely different architecture than x86, so it's not like you can just copy stuff over and it'll work.

Indie console?

Plug and play
put the game and play

no fucking channel/interface, splash screen, you name it!

AND SUPPORT 12 LOCAL PLAYERS  :durr:

An indie console would end up with just dozens of physics based games and shoot the monkey games, and we all know it.

ecept for the occasional gem that woul blew you mind off, especially with 12 player in the same room (wireless of course)

This.

Also, seeing as no one outside of the indie scene would buy this console, things would become even more incestous than they already are.

Say no to inbred games!  :durr:

There is the XGamestation or whatever DIY console. Available from MAKE.

Hi. Did you introduce yourself already (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=45.0)?


Wow, that's very indie. ;D

That's spam Vulpine.

Oh... sorry.  :(
I thought it was just a clueless guy, but I didn't want to be harsh.

holy SHIT

Whoa, nice discovery there, I wouldn't have notice without any tip. Although I can blame the CGI for that.  :epileptic:

woah... nice find, man.

that show, being however lame it is, having cave story on it makes it that much cooler.

Ok so when does the Nicalis Vs Disney channel lawsuit begin?

Then langdell steps in and sues disney for having mickey say edge in Fantasia and we'll have all the indie kingdom united against Disney. That would be just awesome.  :gentleman:

HOLY SHIT!!!

Is there Disney-style Cave Story art?

It would be very appropriate to this topic.

I'm sure you feel petty yet awesome for finding and pointing that out. Nice find. :o