CAVE Planned WWDC-Style Shooting Tournament for Western Fans

CAVE WEEK Exclusive: Japanese bullet hell master CAVE is more than aware of its growing popularity in the West, and wants to better cater to its international fanbase in the future - at one stage it was even considering hosting official shooting tournaments.

Head of the studio's smartphone division, Yukihiro Masaki, explained that the establishment of online portal CAVE WORLD and the focus on mobile development has expanded its fanbase. "We understand that we are getting a lot of attention and gratitude from international users. We really want to do something big with them and we’re doing our best to follow through on that.

"We had an idea to stage a big convention, like Apple does with its WorldWide Developer Conference, and just have a big shooting tournament. Unfortunately that didn’t come to pass in the end. But maybe in the future we will start finding more ideas to service our fans overseas." The developer then went on to state that if anyone was up for inviting him to the West, he'd happily come.

There's this, and many more fascinating revelations, in our huge interview with Masaki-san here.