Comment by archagon

I don’t know Berry’s game dev history, but Celeste designer Maddy Thorson has been making fantastic 2D platformers since, essentially, the very beginning of Western indie games. (Jumper 1 was released in 2004!)

In other words, I think Celeste required decades of preliminary work and industry presence to end up as good as it did. If you build it for a long-ass time, maybe they will eventually come!