Smooth moves
Well this sure is a fine way to start off the day!
Ojiro “Moppin” Fumoto, the creator ofDownwell, has taken a job at Nintendo.
任天堂に就職しました！がんばるぞ〜
— もっぴん (@moppppin)July 29, 2025
“I’ll do my best,” he said in tweet.
Downwellis a roguelike action game about strategically falling and it feelssowonderful. I hope you try playing it sometime, because I want good things for you.Downwellisvery much a good thing.
Fumoto has since been collaborating withSpelunky‘s Derek Yu and other independent creators onUFO 50, a collection of 50 games that “are slightly smaller than commercial 8-bit titles from the ’80s.”
I hope he does well at Nintendo and that we get to learn what he’s up to before too long.
