Studio Pixel

Daisuke Amaya (天谷 大輔, Amaya Daisuke, born April 29, 1977), also known by his pseudonym Pixel, is a Japanese indie game developer. He is best known for developing Cave Story (洞窟物語, Dōkutsu Monogatari), which has been remade into many versions. His most popular work, Cave Story, is a freeware PC platform game released in 2004 that was created entirely by himself over the period of five years. The game received widespread praise from critics and in July 2006 appeared at the top of Super PLAY's list of the 50 best freeware games of all time. Amaya's other work includes the game Ikachan which he released in 2000, as well as many other low-profile games. His current projects, if any, are…More