3 years ago, at December 27th 2021 1AM (UTC+7), the first version of what would be renowed as "indie darling turned roguelike", or "notable Cave Story fangame", was released. It was an attempt to develop a procedurally generated worlds with Cave Story's iconic gameplay and excitement of modern roguelite genre. Since that day, Doukutsu Randamu won the local gamejam and entered Rapid Development phase, that culminated in itch.io release and big recognition spike from PC Gamer and GameSpark.

This experiment went above and beyond what I initially thought, and it wouldn't be possible without support of my team, Cave Story Modding Community members, Cave Story fanbase as a whole, randomizer list people, and everyone who downloaded, streamed and enjoyed the game!

It was a blast experience even with many hiccups on the way, that I cannot regret doing. After all, we all have only one life for our adventures and my adventure includes creating and supporting this very game.

For this occasion, I don't have to show much, unfortunately, due to how different 2024 was for me as a whole. Even updates have slowed down to a crawl compared to old days... However, I did manage to squeeze out few releases in this year, even arriving at community's local awards, Modgala 2024, which was used to smash out some long standing bugs.

The future may look uncertain, but I will try to look forward to supporting and improving Randamu.

As part of this short-lived adventure, I recorded a new demo video, which you can watch on primary Randamu page (with old video now being marked as outdated). Also, I encourage you to check out the whole history of Doukutsu Randamu pre-Itch updates here, to see, how much the game improved and progressed over its first year of lifespan.